How Much Do Foreigners In Japan Make?
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Japanese are the richest people on earth. Yakuza
Don't come and teach English in Japan. Trust me. There is no future in it.
The new american dream now is to have American standard salary in USD and work remotely somewhere else like Japan
Its not easy because most of the time our salary was converted in term of the living cost. Take me for example. I work remotely in indonesia. You know if im in U.S im gonna make 180k usd . But bcause im based in indonesia i only got 1500usd per month . Those company arent stupid .😂
Yep!
@@kelvin-uh7tf Considering cost of living, that 1500USd a month is like making 3k or more in the US. And you're not surrounded by weirdos and criminals. You're way better off where you are. And the girls aren't 300 pounds with tattoos.
SE Asia is better. 1/3 or 1/4 the cost of living as Japan or Korea.
@@kelvin-uh7tf that’s why i said American standard salary
the guy from mexico definitely gave a lot of useful information. like he really wanted to make sure that if it is your goal to be there that you dont waste your time so he put out resources.
thanks!
I lived in Versailles for 10 years and the french guy in this video used to get my bus in the morning! Small world!
He makes content on social media now, look for Japania :)
he is called amine , he is a youtuber , channel called JAPANIA
Yeah, Japania, quite famous in the "French in Japan" TH-cam world.
@Takashi Get Louis-San or IciJapon next time ! ;)
The most i like about Takashi is the huge space he gives to people without this stupid interruption as always on tv shows.
The software engineer from Mexico gave very good and precise advice 👏
He needs to accept his baldness... Buzz trimm it all down...
All the great hairstylists in Japan and yet no one can style it.
thanks!
@@Tobiko22 hahaha my hair was a mess that day
@@Mipon_en you got violated 😭
All these people have so much character in the way they dress and what they all do is so fascinating.
Must be cherry picking season
I agree and that is why this race should be loyal to its own race and its qualities. The Japanese aesthetic is incomparable.
They get paid more than the average Japanese. Many foreign companies in Japan mainly employ foreigners. US tech companies only hire English speakers, many Indians as seen here, practically no Japanese so you see the Indian guy say he doesn't need to know Japanese even though he wants to live in Japan.
@@downtomars6268 part of loving a country like japan includes wanting to learn the language by default. the indian guy who said he doesn't have to learn japanese is correct, he doesn't *have to* learn it, but since he said it was his childhood dream to live in japan, i can bet he already had been learning it before moving there. For a foreigner, learning a language has its pros and cons, where pros outweigh the cons. pros include convenience, being social, wider access, etc. cons include having to learn a whole new language as an adult which is no easy feat. often times foreigners have to balance the pros and cons during their time in the country. You must remember that a foreigner has to deal with a 100 new things apart from just learning a language, for example, learning customs, meeting new people, managing finances, managing visa regulations, surviving in a completely new environment, etc. so learning a language, if it can be put in the backseat working in an english speaking company, becomes an attractive convenience for them. but japanese is a language that most foreigners would love to learn, at least in my opinion.
@@downtomars6268 He probably still needs a decent level of Japanese to open bank account, communicate with landlord etc
Thanks for interviewing bro. It was a pleasure talking with you!
bro thanks for the insight.. 😄
hope can work abroad on japan someday
Thanks for the advice that your shared. Hope you're enjoying life in Japan!
😮Amine of Japania channel?
You mean l'Illustre Amine of Japania ?
ouai, s avais pas que son anglais etait si bon, j'ai vue le thumbnail: wtf Japania X Takeshii crossover?
Énorme !
Amine, la couillasse des grands soirs, le compère des bons repaires… manque plus que l’ami GuiGui et takashi chantera la vie en rose.
You mean Amine mon gars sur, mon reuf à la verge dur ?
21 years in Japan living in the countryside. The first 10 years working as an Eikaiwa Teacher, ¥230,000 /mo. rent ¥50,000 /mo.
Next 5 years with position change, ¥300,000/mo. mortgage ¥45,000/mo. Past 6 years as an English school business owner. ¥800,000/mo. mortgage ¥45,000/mo.
Oh,that's great! I envy you as a Japanese.
Which part? I lived in Shingu.
Good to know they still study English here. Never see any advertisements anymore for eikaiwa 😂
@@nigelc.7818 There are so many Eikawas, I don't see how they make money to stay in business.
Holidays to developed nations are almost out of reach for most Japanese now.
This video helps me a lot ! Thank you for making a video with this great topic !
As always, nice video!! Thanks Takashii san!
Damn! Like we would say in French, what an illustre vidéo
On t’as bien vue,
Bon continuation à toi, l’expert de la maison mère !!!
D’ailleurs un grand merci, pour ton boulot sur le Japon. Tout comme à l’animal Guigui.
Vous m’aidez beaucoup dans la préparation de mon voyage d’octobre.
Ça va être épique !!
Amine Sama, la grande Asperge internationale qui fait son apparition comme ça 😂
Trop marrant de te voir sur une autre chaîne.
''Tchou Tchou Bye bye et à la semaine prochaine'' 💙❤
懐かし！！
Le seul qui déclare pas son revenu ! 😂 C’est trop risqué chez nous mdr
Ça fait plaisir de te retrouver ici par hasard 🙂
@@MounMoun69 Je me suis dit la même chose mdrr
Incredible content! This really got me thinking about some related ideas I’ve been exploring lately.
The community developer guy is actually doing very well considering his rent is $62! Could be a good option for people wanting to move to Japan.
JPY is so weak now that you’re basically stuck here if you’re being paid in JPY. Massively impacts any foreigner working here with financial dependents living abroad (e.g. a child in international school overseas). That’s a genuine stress and pain I wouldn’t wish on anyone else at the moment…
The data scientist and the business owner are living the life. Man the things I would do in Japan if I had that money
If you are single it's great but if married with kids, even that pay is not incredible.
@@nigelc.7818 yeah but the living is cheap in Japan
If you stay in Japan, it's good but you can't afford to travel abroad, the purchase power for the YEN is half of any place you visit.
@@Mwoods2272if you are in Japan, you don’t really need to go anywhere else except maybe for short trips.
yeah right.
Theres no school for data scientists in my country. Fuck/cry it all
Lots of solid, actionable tips in this one! Thanks, Takashi & interviewees! 👍
What’s a wonderful series of interviews! Very helpful insights
Excellent interviews. Thanks for sharing
I am so proud of my Mexican countryman. You represented us well brother!!!!
gracias brother
No way, « l’asperge de Japania » in Takashi’s interview 😮👀
Amazing video as always. Thank you.
I just moved to Japan literally this past week and it was really great to hear others experiences and get an understanding of where my salary falls in the range of everyone’s work experience
As a French person, it's funny to see that Amine (the French guy) was the only one who didn't reveal his income. We really have a taboo about these things :)
Thanks for the video Takashii!
we don't gaf
Kind of disappointing to avoid this question. I guess he wants to avoid impacts for his french channel and social medias but still..
@@decado3944 My thought exactly. Living in Japan since 10y and being a recruiter, I know his salary as marketing manager for a school is not that high, but should be decent. Something between 300.000 JPY to 400.000 JPY / month is my guess but could be less. I think money he makes in euros around his ccntent helped a lot raising his income.
s''il a un contract de travail francais tu as pas le droit de réveler ton salaire en france c'est meme un motif de licenciement dans certains contrat lol
I don’t care that he doesn’t share his income , i’m impressive by the fact that he can speak English and i guess Japanese. That’s a french unicorn 🦄
more than 30 countries? woow. I wanted to hear his stories more. He seems chill.
Good video Takashi keep up the good work dude😎
The Half Japanese and Trinidadian interviewee is so handsome! The key is to work for a foreign company in Japan! Get the benefits of being in Japan but without being subjected to its work culture lol
Yup, the other Canadian guy Kai is also cute 😂
@@pikachuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Too vanilla 😂 Guys like him are a dime a dozen lol
@@DiamondFlame45 no one wants a half black dude. gross
Yet he's still a foreigner 😆
The French guy also has sex appeal, and the lndian guy with the long hair is attractive.
I really agreed with what the first Canadian guy was saying, knowing Japanese is so crucial
Great topic, Takashi san!!!
Takashi 😊
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@japan.kpensieve hello
Very well edited video. Concise, to the point. Good job!
With the weak yen, the only way is to stay permanently in Japan. Cuz if you’re planning to just go for a couple years, your salary will be worth nothing in your home country.
My cohort of ex-pats lucked out. We were in Japan in the mid 90's. The yen was in the 120's when I arrived and when I left; in between, there was short period where it strengthened to around 100. Ex-pat pay and benefits were also ridiculously (actually embarrassingly) generous at the time for jobs right out of college (you just needed decent language skills). I was able to save enough to return to the US and pay for grad school with only a modest student loan toward the end.
Great video, Takashi! 😊🙌🏼
Great interviews!
Thank you for this knowledgeable video❤
Very nice video takashi!
Always good to see Amine from Japania!
Awesome video as always Takashii.
Superr Takashii!!😘😘
Nice intro! Very cool font, good job!
I really appreciate the dedication in each video you post. To be successful one has to have multiple income streams and so on, also investors should understand the crossover between asset classes & liquidity flow, Judith Layton focuses on Multi-asset trading, a single strategy to manage risk, profit, and the code or the actual decision-making across multi-asset classes. Her skills set is top notch
Wow. I'm a bit perplexed seeing her been mentioned here also Didn’t know she has been good to so many people too this is wonderful, I'm in my fifth trade with her and it has been super.
The very first time we tried, we invested $1000 and after a week, we received $3900. That really helped us a lot to pay up our bills
You trade with Judith M Layton too? Wow that woman has been a blessing to me and my family
Please let me know how to contact her as I'm new to this.
I was skeptical at first until I decided to try. It’s huge returns is awesome! I can’t say much.
as a German not complaining constantly, must take unimaginable willpower.
Omg japaniaaaa in your video 😍😍 I’ll watch it for sure 😌
Nice Video!
I agree with the Mexican guy @18:11 💯
Thank you Takasi, very interesting video, I am thinking to move to Japan.
Dope and insightful interviews.
In Boston, Mass $2000 a month will get you a studio apt. in the city. A 1 bedroom will around $2,500 to 5k. Japan is cheap compared to what it was in the late 90's.
But it is not bad.
Its cheap cos salaries are generally low, most of these guys are in the high end of salaries.
"People listen to their music with headphones", I felt that deeply, living in Canada, there is no public space you can go to without a few low IQs swiping through tiktok without their headphones. Every time hear that I cry inside and think about Japan.
Glad yo seen this video. Ty
Fantastic video with nice diverse group of people from different demographics
Good to hear the chainsaw man t-shirt, wearing gentleman is enjoying Japan, so much. Good taste in clothes too: suggestive but understated and smart.
I’m from Sasebo, Nagasaki. My rent is 160k yen but Navy pays for it, it’s 3LDK with one tatami room detached home.
Great video
As someone wanting to mov to Japan one day, I found this video really interesting. Hopefully going to make it happen :')
I am surprised the amount of Canadian in Tokyo. I met a runner around Yoyogi Park at my last day in Tokyo. He saw my Bluejays caps and come to me "Nice Bluejays cap. I am from Toronto, Canada". That is quite cool experience tho.
They like Japan due to the mild winters compared to Canada
I'm Canadian but I'm in Osaka, and surprisingly I found Japanese culture is kind of similar to Canadian culture in some ways. Maybe that's why there's so many Canadians
@@southcoastinventors6583I’d love to try and live in Japan, I hate the heat and humidity where I live in Canada and live winter. Don’t think I could survive the heat there
Because Canada has been ruined is now unlivable.
Big Asian communities in major Canadian cities is what introduces people to the country.
@@justtoleavecomments3755 I left Canada because I felt Canada has changed completely. It is not the Canada where I grew up.
Yeah 🎉 to the Japanese-Caribbean 🇯🇵🇹🇹 person ❤ the ethnic combo 🤗
As someone in the beginning of his tech career i appeciate the guy so much for giving us those tips!
Good move to put Amine from Japania as a thumbnail Takashii 💪🏼
Some are really struggling with the concept of comparison. You cannot convert Yen to USD and complain they're being "underpaid" when you're matching those converted payments to US COL. They're getting paid relative to Japan. You're just reading them as a different currency to make sense of it, similar to translating languages. Doesn't mean it's a direct conversion and applicable to American living. The lifestyle of someone living off $200k in NYC is going to look different numerically in Tokyo, Japan. It doesn't mean that person is poor, struggling, or underpaid.
According to Numbeo, average monthly cost for one person in Tokyo with a 1 bedroom apartment in city center is about $1,992. There was a dude pulling $6,600+ a month. He's living very comfortably in Japan and if he were in the States, these numbers would be adjusted and proportionate to the true USD of income and COL in the target city. So if his job paid $200k/year or $16,600+ per month in the States, the equivalent Japanese lifestyle he's enjoying would've looked more like $5,000+ for monthly expenses with a monthly income of $16,600+ for true USD numbers.
You are correct about the data scientist but the software engineer from India and Mexico (first job) is definitely getting underpaid
A word of advice from the future: make sure you don’t set a trap for your future self.
There are reasons why you may decide to leave Japan, and when you do, you may struggle to adapt or find a job back in the West. I think the best compromise is probably working for a foreigner company in Japan, or be your own boss. Because most of the skills you learn in a Japanese company are most likely of no use outside Japan. If you want to specialize in something, it may be hard to compete with someone who has spent the same amount of years just working on that one thing. In the meantime, you may have learned lots of things, including Japanese language which takes a long time to master at a business level, or how to negotiate in Japanese, but those skills are pretty much useless outside Japan. Everything is possible, though. Just be aware of this.
And these are a couple of reasons why you may decide to eventually leave Japan: family & health. If your parents and close relatives live at 14-hours flight distance, and you work for a company with few holidays that only lets you visit them once a year, you may be missing out from their lives and eventually you may want to be part of that again. Also, as you grow older you may struggle with the hay fever in Tokyo during spring and then the 3 months of hot and humid weather. When you are young, you have the energy. But as you grow older you may want to live in a place with milder weather.
I’m Spanish. I’ve lived 12 years in Japan before I moved to the UK. I love Japanese language and Japanese culture, but as a software engineer in the UK, those are just hobbies now, not skills I need for my job. I’ve moved back to Europe so I can visit my family more often. Also, I feel healthier here: weather, allergies, working hours… I don’t regret living in Japan because it’s given me so much and it’s made me who I am today. And if I didn’t have a family, I would have probably stayed there forever. I’m just leaving this here as food for thought. 皆さん、頑張ってください！
Of course, it depends where you live and where thou are from. The distance is an issue for Koreans or Taiwanese, for example.
I m autistic and don't care at all about family
Thanks Takashi nice video and life for working foreighners. interesting
It was cool to see that snop dog was down to be interviewed 😂
Really like the camera TAKASHii used?
Anyone have idea about camera or mic? Pls
Your interviews are really interesting.
Questo e' un eccelente video, mi piace moltissimo, Takashii !! Grazie mille!! Arrivederci.
Very happy to see Amine from Japania here ❤
Most of these foreigners have a high level of training and have other employment options and assets if Japanese yen gets too low.
Compare that with Japanese who have same level of training but must exist on low wages, high cost of living, and demanding working conditions.
well now I understand both why theres immigration out of Japan and why education is so valued for children
That's true. Western tech companies in Japan like major US ones only hire English speakers and prefer to bring in other foreigners so they don't really hire Japanese staff regardless of skill.
I have a friend who has lived and worked in Japan for several years (since well before the pandemic). He's originally from Southern California.
He makes enough to get buy living in Tokyo, but with the weakness of the Yen, the biggest difficulty is that it's really hard for him to visit family back in the USA.
I've been snapping up Japanese arts and crafts lately--the exchange rate is phenomenal! ...found a couple of beautiful Nambu tetsubin yesterday. Great.
I can’t wait to go back to Japan
@@jsdjordi5153why did you say "good lock"?
Same!@@jsdjordi5153
Damn that's pretty low pay. I work in a pretty basic job here in Sweden and make about $3000 a month, but of course i pay 34% tax on that so it ends up more like ~$1980 which is still more than most people in this video in the end. I live in a 3 room apartment which has a kitchen, living room, 2 bedrooms, bathroom, wardrobe(its like a small room) and a balcony and pay $900 a month for it.
1980$ and you can afford to live in 3 room appartement
l make 3000$ after tax and can't rent this time of appartement in private building
also where in Sweden are you
here around paris 3 room appartement in private you have to pay almost 1000€ to 1500€
so even with my 3k$
isn't enough because they ask you win 3 time rent
@@gringolife9986 Malmö is where i live in Sweden.
It's pointless to compare salaries in a country where a rice ball costs 50 cents a piece and a sandwich costs $10.
You are fxking lucky. Hope the migrant crisis doesn't ruin your cost of living within the next couple of years.
@@ARKSAAXX-ys9gz that is true, its very expensive here. But if you are careful and buy cheap groceries you can be just fine.
Eye opening video😮
Idk how you find such interesting, thoughtful, intelligent people for EVERY episode! So well spoken and informed! 👍🏻
Takashi needs a shampoo sponsor!
@@BBERRABINU 私も
As a foreigner who's lived in Japan for 4 years, it's really surprising to watch these videos and hear how low other foreigners salaries are. I'm a manager in an office job making 6.5 million yen a year and it's shocking to hear that other foreigners with specialized skills like IT and software dev are making less than me.
Recently, even in Japan, engineers' salaries have risen to around 8 million yen, but it's still cheap.
@@universe682 I made 1.5x that my first year out of college. Now i'm making 2.05x that in Japan as an engineer.
@@g_rr_tt Really?It's incredible!
Same boat. I feel blessed living in my situation.
When I lived in Japan first time in 1991, I worked for Nova. I was getting about 320k yen a month. My rent was 28000 yen. Good times. Went back on JET in 98 and salary was similar.
With my wife together we make around 1M per month.
Our monthly cost :
Rent + gaz + electricity + water + insurance + phones plan + gym + internet : ~ 200000 ¥
Food : ~ 50000 ¥
Fun (restaurant , shopping) : ~ 60000¥
At the end we spend around 310000¥
That is an average because sometimes we spend more if we visit my wife’s family or if we travel in Japan .
Honestly speaking, weak yen is not really an issue if you spend your money in Japan and don’t have any plan to travel abroad.
The salary in Japan is just ridiculously low. There are options for foreigners working in Japan but for Japanese citizens, It seems like they are pretty much stuck.
In fact, the Japanese are not that stuck.
Unlike other developed countries, where rapid inflation has made it impossible to buy a house and people can no longer easily eat out, the situation has not arisen.
The reasons for this include
In Japan, the asset value of a building becomes almost zero after 30 years, there are many vacant houses due to the low birth rate, and it is cheap to rent or buy a house in rural areas due to ultra-low interest rates on mortgages.
In Japan, you can eat a delicious meal out for around 800 yen, and Japanese food can be made cheaply because miso, tofu, and natto are cheap.
In addition, the three elements of happiness - food, housing, and environment - are met at a minimum, with plenty of entertainment, convenient convenience stores and trains, and good public safety.
@@user-tx5pm8lq4t Yes, if you're a foreigner things are very cheap. Now if you are a Japanese citizen, that's a different story.
@@Impozalla Money games are distorting the exchange rate, but this doesn't really matter to Japanese people unless they travel abroad.
As always, you can eat everything from conveyor belt sushi to ramen and tonkatsu for around 800 yen. Ten eggs cost 190 yen.
Rents have also risen in Tokyo, but in the countryside there are many vacant rooms and fierce competition for rental space, so prices have hardly increased at all.
Meanwhile in America, rapid inflation has meant that 50% of people in their 20s are working two or more jobs because they are struggling to make ends meet.
I've heard of people getting into debt because they can't afford to live, and there are even homeless people who are working.
These are things that are almost unthinkable in Japan.
@@user-tx5pm8lq4t yeah and that's why they are stuck.
@@Impozalla This is a difference in thinking. You may be a GDP growth supremacist like America, but Japanese people don't want to become a country like America. There is an abundance of entertainment such as karaoke and arcades, the town is clean and safe, medical care is good, there are convenient convenience stores and trains, food is cheap and delicious, and there is no shortage of housing. Japan is truly the ideal country for Japanese people. Do you have a living environment like this in your country? If so, please tell me which country it is. When I watched a video of New York, which boasts the world's highest GDP, it looked like nothing more than a developing country.
U.S. company paying me American dollars in Hiroshima, Japan as a mechanic. Company paid apartment, rental car, $7000 pay a month
I think the theme here was that everyone really loves Japan since they were kids. Thank you, excellent constructive perspectives from everyone!
Incroyable japania !
The key is to keep as much of what you make as you can while spending as much of your time doing things you enjoy.
I worked in japan during the early 90s looks like the pay hasn't increase much
It was good when it was 100 to a dollar. But 160, oh my god.
Same as many other countries
Economy has not grown for 30 years so yes, no growth in salary too.
I live in JP too and have a comfortable salary. Some of these guys have comfortable salary but are paying way too much for rent. Rent should be max 1:3 of your salary. 1:3 should go to all other expenses and 1:3 to save/invest especially if you are on the lower spectrum of salary..
welcome to 2024, where the 1:3 rent rule is genuinely impossible unless you get very lucky
Agree my mortgage is 1:6 after tax but I don't live centrally.
@@itsOrdinal in Japan or even Tokyo it is possible actually. Most of the foreigners here are on the 'fun' mode and wants to stay in shibuya/shinjuku area and overpaying their rent. 60-70k for a 25sqm on a 300k salary is totally possible and these apartments are everywhere.
for example, the one guy is paying 230k for 2ldk in ebisu. im paying 170k for a 2ldk just 20minutes train ride to shibuya. then again, im here for work and not having parties.
I'm interested in going to a Japanese language school, I'd love to see more content of foreigners sharing their experiences and tips for this topic. Thank you for making great videos Takashii!
it's funny as hell to see japania in your videos ^^ お疲れ様です
No way the US Data scientist guy complaining about money after earning over 6K dollars per month
@@shinigami1176 yeah for real. He sounds like a moron.
6K for data scientist is nothing
Compared to what he could make in the US with his expertise he’s getting paid in crumbs he can clear over $200k easily especially since he’s from NY if I’m not mistaken.
@@LowValueMan bruh cost of living is also low
@@markviloow low cost of living
this girl is the first Spanish i hear saying "i am from Spain" and not "from ESpain". Impressive!
impressive only for that?
they guy from mexico really helpfull, i can sense he's a nice senior software dev
thanks for the insight
Thank you for the video. Im currently residing in Komaba, Tokyo and studying at the University of Tokyo.
I'm favoured, $27K every week! I can now give back to the locals in my community and also support God's work and the church. God bless America.
I'm glad to write her tay I do hope she will help handle my paycheck properly☺️☺️☺️
Can I start with as low as $1,000?
Please who is this Mrs Sonia
This sounds so good andI would like to
be a party to this, is there any wayl can
speak with her?
Mrs Sonia Duke is gradually getting the recognition she rightly deserves. She's worked for it and this is only a testament of her good works for families
Thanks for the info, I've contacted her and she responded nicely
So if understood correctly the German guy is some kind of anime pimp ? Lol
Looks like one lol
One part anime, the other is idols (so more like show- and musicbusiness)
He sold me my one piece body pillow !
Japania, Mipon and Around Akiba in a Single video : “ So this is what they called the multiverse”
What that Canadian guy is doing is worth it's own whole video.
What a chance to interview l'Illustre Amine de Japania
Wife and I each retired in our 40s and moved to Japan in 2023.
Our retirement is in USD and only goes up every year.
We lived in Florida and now our cost of living is half of what it was in FL.
We live in a 4LDK and have 2 cars.
We travel 90% more than what we did in FL.
Just came back from a cruise around Japan/Korea.
I'm jealous that you're living a luxurious retired life. Japanese people are poor, so they have to work until they are 60.
Do you keep your money in US bank account? Or have them transferred to Japanese bank account?
What did you do to be able to retire in your 40s? Any inheritance ? Sounds like a nice situation you have now.
@@universe682
In the US people now have to work forever.
In Japan every worker gets to retire at 60 but can work a few more years if they want.
@@SkyHermit
Our pension is deposited in US Banks and we use our credit cards for points for all our purchases in Japan, and pay them off every month through our banks.
Hello from Bucharest, Romania/ Roumanie - a huge underrated city in Europe:)
I will visit Bucharest soon. What are your tips for the city? Many greetings
I have been, and I loved it! Romania as a whole was brilliant and I can't wait to go back
Thailand just announced the DTV for remote workers. It's a 5 year visa with a few conditions. Japan should be doing the same.
The eye contact skills of the young community manager is great to see.