Want to work in Japan but has problems

Basically my plan is the following

Get a TESOL/TEFL certificate from a respectable institution
Graduate from my Associate Degree.
Get on field experience for 6 months.

But i keep hearing that they only accept Bachelors degree? Is there anyway to bypass that?

I only have 6 years of experience teaching Highschool, Middle school and elementary students(History, language and science) and 1 year experience teaching college students(Programming).

You saw you've got teaching experience; do you have a degree in teaching?

Unfortunately associate degrees are not equivalent to bachelor degrees, as there is less study involved. Either continue studying to get a bachelor degree, or find a company willing to sponsor you for a visa without a degree.

The requirement from Immigration for English teaching job is either a bachelor's degree or 3 or more years of experience teaching English. So when you say teaching high school, middle school and elementary school, was that teaching English?

Adding on to the last comment: "teaching English" means teaching it as a foreign language, not to people who already know English (i.e. as a literature-type course).

i see, i'll really need a bachelors degree for this