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Here's some sites with programs and reasourses about
Sudying
Finding a Job
and Living in Japan.

If you have any other links post 'em here ^^

I recommend Youth for Understanding for exchange programs. They're most popular is the summer Japan program and they offer over 300 scholarships between full paid to half paid. I got a full paid scholarship and all I had to bring was spending money. They also have semster and year programs and also offer programs else where.

www.youthforunderstanding.com

A lot of nations probably have those kind of rules. I once read about going to work in Canada, and they have similar standards (you have to have a job set up or have skills that they're specifically looking for)

Doing some more thread reviving . . .

For Junior High and Highschoolers
You can't really do it by yourself, but you could pressure a teacher to put together an EF tour. They have a reasonablly priced (about 2300 with airfair I assume) 9 day tour of Japan where you go to Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka. I did a tour with them to Australia for my senior trip and they're fast paced but well worth doing.
EF Tours

Highschools and College students
Japan at Studyabroad.com This is a pretty comprehensive list of a lot of programs cover all different needs: summer, academic year, whatever.

College Students
Summer at Waseda This program gets pushed on us every year since my school doesn't offer a summer Japan program. This six week program is at Waseda University in Tokyo (Via Portland State in Oregon) It's gonna be at least 6,000 just to do the program and to fly there, but it's in summer so it won't interupt your studies. biggrin

Wow...So many different websites and information. ^^; I should've come online sooner.. This is awesome. whee This information will surely help me if I really do decide to move to Japan...Which I am planning to do sometime...In the far future though. n.n;

This should be a sticky. 3nodding

Sugoi

This is cool
i should have enter this guild a long time before
this is way more attainable than paying 10K
to do a trip with all the expenses

Now to save money

Those are really cool links *checks them out agian* I really want to live in Japan... but it's too expensive, I want to Work in Japan but that would require living there (too expensive), and I want to Study there... but it would be rather difficult in an environment I'm not use to (even though that truely wouldn't matter to me xp xd )

Well either way, I do want to live, work, and study in Japan... but I don't think I can sweatdrop crying

*Now feels stupid for rammbling on and on*