Japan's internship program is not what the west has. Its more like an 'PR' event where companies will open events for 1 day (mostly) trying job to PR how their work place is 'kind' and 'bright' environment to appeal to the fresh graduates (future shinsotsu students to come to their company during the official job hunting season. So, its very very rare to have such companies around. If available mostly short term. As far as i am aware these are only open to local thrid year undergraduate students from local universities who are doing job hunting in Japan. I might be wrong, you just need to find. But without N2 in your resume, it might be challanging as you might not pass the document screening.

Part-time jobs are widely available from konbini jobs to kitchen jobs just browse through townwork or バイト 留学生 外国人 for reference.

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Part-Time Jobs/Internship Opportunities in Tokyo

Hello Everyone,

I will be moving to Tokyo in March and going to language school for at least 1 year. I would like to work part time jobs/internships while I am there, and I wanted to see if anyone had any recommendations or ways to go about getting one? For context, I am 23M and I graduated college in May of 2025 with a bachelors in Asian Business and a minor in Japanese. I also lived in Japan for 1 year to study abroad while I attended a Japanese university. I can speak conversational level Japanese, and can survive in a new city with my reading/writing skills. (about mid N3 level). So I am not inexperienced when it comes to living in Japan.

I am going to language school because I would like to have a career in Japan, I just do not know what I want to do yet. I also need to improve my reading and writing to a professional level (the goal is N2). I can also afford this financially so I made this decision. I am considering this a ‘soul searching’ opportunity while I try to find my passion. I am most likely going to live in a sharehouse with rent being anywhere from 50,000-80,000 a month.

What are some ideal part-time jobs I can do and where would I be able to find them? Also does anyone know if there are any internship opportunities even though I am no longer in university? Please let me know!

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