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Dear visitor, if you know the answer to this question, please post it. Thank you! should i move to japan to study? 2009/9/18 i am currently 18. i was born and raised in Japan until 9. since then i have lived in the US and China. i am currently a college student in texas and am wanting to study in Japan at a Japanese university. not as an exchange student. Because i am half Japanese and am a citizen of the country, many of the schools wont allow me to enter in as an international student. though, because i have been living out of the country, my Japanese has gone down (which is one of the reasons for wanting to go back there). i have been looking around schools and getting application fourms and what not. but the thought that has been going through my mind is to quit school after this year and go to Japan, study and work there and then apply to universities. I'm not sure what else i can do if i can't get in as an international student. my school offers Japanes, but only 1&2 right now, which is too easy for me. What do you think i should do? by yoshimaru12   ... 2009/9/18 If I were you, I'd study business at the Univ. of Texas Austin combined with language study in Japanese And Chinese. You could then become a very valuable person for companies doing business in Asia, rather than just a run of the mill person in Japan. As a resident of the state, your tuition would be low. Your tuition/living costs in Japan would be high especially considering the strengthening yen. Hope this helps. by guest (guest) rate this post as useful What about Sophia University? 2009/9/18 Have you looked at Sophia (also called Jochi Daigaku)? It has an international program that accepts Japanese. About half the students in the international program are Japanese. (Mostly kikokushijo, but definitely not all.) The international program campus is in Ichigaya, not the main one in Yotsuya. They call it the "Faculty of Liberal Arts." It is a four-year degree program. They have an intensive Japanese program, too. Aside from the Japanese courses, the rest of the curriculum is conducted in English. Just Google ''sophia ichigaya'' and you should find it. by DanH2009 rate this post as useful Correction 2009/9/18 Actually, it may be that the program is now on the Yotsuya campus as well, and not the Ichigaya campus anymore. I am not sure. The main point remains, though, that Sophia has a program that might fit your needs. by DanH2009 rate this post as useful