I am not saying that 7 plus 3 add up to 10, thus sufficient. 7 years (yes I forgot to mention that that should be full-time) is close enough, and considering that the original poster has had some vocational training in that field (I took it to be that; not as "college"), I just feel that he has a chance. That is all I am saying. Fingers crossed, yes.
I'm not saying your wrong, but judging from your profile, you seem to be an ethnic Japanese that was born in Japan, and therefore I expect that there are certain things that you would not understand about the British education system and British society, and to be fair, many Americans and mainland Europeans are also not familiar with them.
I mentioned full time work only because the OP mentioned that they started working at 15, and a fair few british people wouldn't start working from that age, as it can be difficult finding work straight out of school.
In terms of education, I think it would be reasonable if immigration didn't take that into account. In the UK, we can leave school at 15 or 16, which is 2 years earlier than American and Japan, people who want to continue their education will either continue at school to do their a levels, or go to college, which will give them an equivalent of a high school education. From their they can enter University, which is what Americans would typically consider a college education, and is equivalent to daigaku. Maybe you consider unnecessery to bring this up, but I have seen discussions on this forum between British and American people that have very different understandings of what a college education means, and the British person has often left with an incorrect understanding that they have a University level qualification, when they infact have a qualification equivalent to high school education.
I'm honestly not trying to persuade they OP, I just think they need to have an understanding of what they requirements are, and what their qualifications are worth by international standards. I really do wish them the best of luck, but to be honest, if UK college vocational qualifications that are equivalet to a highschool education count towards the visa requirements, you could argue that it is very unfair to Americans, who have to attend school for an additional 2 years. I can only guess what will happen, but if the OP's aplication gets rejected, they can forget about living in Japan, or be bitter and blame the system, or they can do whatever they can to improve themselves and meet the requirements, and to be fair to them, they do seem interested in continuing their education if they can't get a visa.
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