「 I'm 15 yrs. old...Me and my cousin are planning to study in Japan next year up to college...We can't speak Japanese language yet but we are self-learning it....Our plan is to stop schooling for half or one year so that we can have private Japanese language study.」
So, to confirm, your plan is to move to Japan at 16, then spend six months or a year taking private Japanese language lessons. At that point you'd be 16 and a half or 17, so then you'd enroll in a Japanese high school, and after finishing Japanese high school, you'd enroll in a Japanese college, correct?
That sounds like an incredibly difficult plan, and one that night not be possible to actually do. If your Japanese language level right now is so low that you flat-out say "I can't speak Japanese," one more year of self study followed by 6-12 months of private language lessons probably isn't going to be enough to make you proficient enough in Japanese to keep up with high school classroom lessons.
「At the same time have a part-time job to earn money and help our grandparents. But we will also buy books for other subjects (math, english, science etc.) and self-study lessons so we can go back to school after a year.」
This also doesn't sound financially possible. Your plan is to work a part-time job and earn not only enough money to pay for private Japanese lessons and other textbooks, and still have enough left over to "help your grandparents" with living expenses?
What sort of work do you think you're going to do? It's going to be very difficult to find a job that will allow you to make that much money while only working part-time, especially if your Japanese language level is low, since that will limit the jobs available to you. In general, jobs that require only a very low level of Japanese skill don't pay particularly well.
「Is it possible for us to study and live there? If it is, what are the requirements?」
In order to live in Japan, you need a residency visa. Here are the basic types: ●Work visa: This is a visa in which your employer sponsors your visa. However, work visas aren't given out for low-level part-time jobs, or to minors, so this isn't an option for you. ●Student visa: Some schools can sponsor visas for students who are studying there. However, these are usually given to people who enroll at actual schools. If you're self-studying and taking private lessons, you probably won't be eligible for a student visa. ●Dependent visa: This is a visa where a resident in Japan sponsors a person they need to provide financial care for. For example, if your uncle is a Japanese resident, then his non-adult children would be eligible for dependent visas, because children obviously need someone to provide for them financially (paying for their food, clothing, and shelter).
However, this doesn't mean that YOU can get a dependent visa just by having your aunt, uncle, and grandparents in Japan say that they are going to take care of you. The Japanese immigration bureau would want to know why your aunt/uncle/grandparents specifically need to take care of you. Are your parents unable to take care of you in the Philippines? Is it dangerous for you to continue living in the Philippines?
If the answer to those questions is "no," you're unlikely to be granted a dependent visa. Currently, it's your parents who have the legal requirement to take care of you, and as long as they're able to do that, there's no "need" for you to live in Japan, especially if your plan upon arrival is not enrolling in school for a year while you take private language lessons and work part-time.
Basically, it sounds like you're someone who "wants" to live in Japan, but doesn't "need" to live in Japan. There's nothing wrong with that, but generally the Japanese government doesn't hand out visas to people in your situation.
Honestly, I think the best thing for you to do would be to finish high school in the Philippines while continuing to self-study Japanese, and perhaps taking some sort of Japanese language lessons. Then, after you graduate from high school, apply to a full-time language school in Japan. That would make you eligible for a student visa, and assuming you can find a school within commuting distance from your relatives' home in Japan, you could live with them then. After finishing language school, you could pursue other educational options, like applying to a Japanese university, junior college, or specialty school.
Alternatively, you could look for a language program in Japan that will let you enroll at the age of 16, but it's likely those are going to be short-term programs.
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