This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nic Lim, an author from New Zealand who moved to Japan for four years to work as an English teacher. It has been edited for length and clarity.

Pursuing a career as an English teacher is one of the fastest ways to live and work in Japan—provided you meet the requirements. However, the drawbacks to this convenience are the industry’s ...

Let me explain this, using the sentence in the skit that means "To be a Japanese language teacher is my dream." To change the verb, NARIMASU (to be, to become) into a noun, you add NO to the ...

Teaching East Asia: Japan has been providing services to K-12 educators and schools since 1985 through grant-funded projects that sponsor summer institutes, study tours, one-day workshops, and ...

As I explained in Lesson 7, these words are the remnants of the ancient ways of counting numbers in Japan. For the 11th day to the end of a month, we say the corresponding numbers and add NICHI, ...

According to insights from Japanese job boards and our own GaijinPot Jobs, the average English teacher salary in Japan is approximately ¥290,000 per month, totaling around ¥3.46 million annually ...