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I would enjoy reading your personal firsthand experiences finding work as a foreigner in a Japanese-only environment. Please share a few anecdotes with us.
I actually disagree and say that it is possible for a 20 year old non Japanese to become a Police Officer in Japan.
Very, very difficult? - Obviously!
Impossible? - No.
He/She (lets call the person Toni) applies to study in Japan; starts studying intensely in Japan.
After a year Toni meets and marries a Japanese national and starts work in an all Japanese language environment.
Toni can apply for citizenship after 5 years as he will have the required period of residency (assuming Toni has remained in Japan for 80% of each of those years), enough fluency in Japanese to answer questions at the citizenship interview and the reading and writing level of an 8 year old. If Toni does not have proof of funds or livelihood himself, the spouse and or his parents in the USA can provide this.
It will take him 6 months to 2 years for the citizenship to be approved which would leave him with 3 years to apply for and join the Japanese Police Force .... if he still has the same enthusiasm to do so!
Doable.
If anyone is interested in gaining citizenship .... there are experts who can help you:
帰化申請について：日本人になりたい外国人の方へ|ビザ欲しいな
It's usually the Americans who leave us Brits behind on the 'Can do' attitude front!
You'd enjoy that? … I'm flattered that you take an interest in me personally, unless you're trying to make some kind of point - rather clumsily!
Couldn't read what you wrote after Pollyana-ish.
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In regard to the 800 lb gorilla in the room,
I did experience discrimination in most aspects of my life in Japan ... I would expect most of us have.
I look forward to seeing at least one foreign born Policeman or woman during the 2020 Olympics.
I don't think I can recommend a career plan where the second step is "find someone to marry you before your student visa runs out."
I think what Dotanbatan meant when he said he couldn't read something was that the word 'naivete' was mangled by the font handling.
Regardless, I'm enjoying this argument over whether something is impossible or just spectacularly implausible...
アメリカに旅行できるほどの長期休暇が取れる警察学校があるなんて初めて聞いた！しかもお盆でもないこんな時期に。まあそもそもお盆や年末年始でさえ３日も取れないはずですけどね。Have you been hired as a police officer in Japan? I am currently in Police School, but on vacation for now.
Are you currently attending police training school in Japan? Yes
Nekojita-san's words was a response to "Leave him alone", i.e., towards the poster of the topic.;-)
I'm sorry, but there are some questions for which the answer is "no, that's impossible".No, it is reality. That is like saying, so and so could never become president of the United States if he put his mind to it.
I'm sorry, but there are some questions for which the answer is "no, that's impossible".
We get into these "discussions" usually whenever someone has lofty goals and has not given enough background information.
I found plenty of remarks by googling that indicates even haafu who have spent their entire lives here are under no delusions about their chances. At least one Japanese aspirant expressed concerns that the fact he was dating a woman whose mother was Chinese would come out during his background check and wreck his chances.
In what prefecture's Hibarigaoka are you referring to? Wasn't he a volunteer or something? Police officers must possess Japanese citizenship, so Chinese police officer is a paradox.