ALT Assistant language teaching jobs in Japan with only a Associates?

Question

I speak fluent Japanese and have a AS in Business. What language companies in Japan would hire me as an ALT?(with decent pay)

PS. No experiance.

Answer 1

If you have fluent Japanese, you should be trying to get a REAL job in business as a translator or something. Now is a terrible time to be job hunting for English teaching gigs, due to the Nova collapse. Already crappy ALT pay and work conditions will get even worse, with 5000 ex-Nova teachers desperate for a paycheck.

But most ALTs and eikaiwa workers who want to stay in Japan study Japanese hard for the chance of being able to get OUT, and get a real job, or at least a university gig. Anyone with fluent Japanese who is aiming to be a (as said above) human tape recorder must be nuts.

Anyway, Associate's isn't enough anyway. Work visas for such teaching require a bachelor's... OR "enough" years of work experience (which requires extra effort to prove, so no school is going to bother trying to get a visa for such a person). You have neither.
You COULD be eligible for other kinds of work visas, such as translation or business worker, but since you have fluent Japanese, you should be able to look up the relevant Immigration laws yourself.........

Answer 2

It's a government requirement that all ALT's have at least a bachelor's degree.

However, you might be over-rating the job. Some people shake their heads wondering how they ever became a human tape recorder, their opinions meaning nothing, including those regarding the English language.

NOVA is pretty much defunct, so forget them for teaching English. AEON and GEOS are two other fairly large English "conversation" schools. So is ECC.

Some of these places have recruiting offices outside of Japan.

Check gaijinpot.com for similar jobs, but note that the majority of the positions assume you're already in Japan with a visa.

You can definitely find work.

Answer 3

No job. No chance. If you don't have a visa to work as an English teacher from a sponsor (who can only hire people with a Bachelor's degree or face stiff fines) in your passport when you hit the airport in Japan, Immigration will immediately put you on the very next flight back to your point of origin.
Your only chance would be to enter the country on a tourist visa and then seek side work illegally, but probably never enough to get by on unless you worked for a sponsoring conversation school like "toishi" (or did you mean "toire" (toilet) in katakana??) said above.
Japanese immigration has no sense of humor and no qualms about shipping your keester home.

Answer 4

Do what you have to do to upgrade to a Bachelors degree and life in Japan will be much easier for you.