6 Ways to Find a Job in Japan (2026) | Hello Work, Recruitment Agencies & More

Looking for work in Japan as a foreign resident? There are 6 main ways — and knowing which one fits you can save you months of frustration. In this video, we compare all 6 routes: Hello Work, Recruitment Agencies, Job Sites, Direct Application, Referrals & Social Media, and Temporary Staffing. We also cover the 5 main visa categories that shape what work you can legally do in Japan. 👇 Have a question about your situation? Add us on LINE — it's free. https://lin.ee/807rNC4 We answer in Nepali, Japanese, and English. And we never ask job seekers to pay. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱ CHAPTERS 0:48 Route 1: Hello Work 1:43 Route 2: Recruitment Agencies 2:46 Route 3: Job Sites 3:48 Route 4: Direct Application 4:28 Route 5: Referrals & Social Media 5:15 Route 6: Temporary Staffing 6:08 Compare: All 6 Side by Side ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠ IMPORTANT: If any recruitment agency asks you to pay a placement fee, registration fee, or handling fee — stop. In Japan, agencies are generally not allowed to charge job seekers. Check first before you pay anything. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 KEY POINTS COVERED ✓ How Hello Work works — and why any office is open to foreign residents ✓ What makes a legitimate recruitment agency (and how to spot one that isn't) ✓ Best job sites for foreign job seekers in Japan ✓ Visa rules for Engineer / Humanities / International Services ✓ Specified Skilled Worker Type 1: what you can and can't do ✓ Student and Dependent visa: 28-hour rule explained ✓ Designated Activities No. 46: requirements and use cases ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 USEFUL RESOURCES Hello Work Employment Service Centers for Foreigners (Tokyo / Nagoya / Osaka / Fukuoka): https://www.mhlw.go.jp/ Immigration Services Agency of Japan: https://www.moj.go.jp/isa/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎥 ABOUT NAMASTE JAPAN Namaste Japan helps foreign residents in Japan navigate work, visa, and daily life. Our team includes native Nepali speakers and a licensed employment placement agency (SPRINT CLIMB). Subscribe for more videos on: Visa rules and work options Living in Japan as a foreign resident Job hunting strategies for foreign workers Practical guides on Japanese daily life ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 CONNECT WITH US LINE (Job consultation, free): https://lin.ee/807rNC4 YouTube: @NamasteJapan ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #JobInJapan #WorkInJapan #ForeignResidents #HelloWork #JapanVisa #NamasteJapan #JapanJobSearch #JobsForForeigners