Teaching English - no Degree?

I'd like to teach English in Japan, but all the schools want a Bachelor Degree as a minimum.

I'm 37 and there won't be any university in my future (due to the cost).

Is there any way to still teach English without a degree?

I currently live in Australia, but my Husband and I are looking to live in Japan for a couple of years.

If your planning of going to Nagoya from december I can offer you employment as a teacher without a degree. But you must get a national police clearance from Australia.
Overall I think it is possible, but much harder. Theres so many people wanting to goto Japan with degree's
Is your husband a Japanese national? I assume so since your talking about a couple of years or has he got sponcership there?

Your main issue is how you will get a visa without a degree as you are past the cut-off age for a working holiday visa. Does your husband have a job offer? Or does he have a degree that will allow a company to sponsor him? If so, once he has a job and a work visa you can apply for a dependent visa and then apply for permission to work part time.

Once you are here, with permission to work, you will find that some schools are willing to waive the visa requirement or don't require a visa at all, especially for teaching kids.

yes there is another way to get the humanities visa.
the requirement of that is
1. Bachelor degree
OR
2. 3 years of related experience

you can get your visa if you have 3 years of expereince, you just need some proof to show.

if you are not in japan, you need to apply for a COE(certificate of eligibility)

COE
http://www.immi-moj.go.jp/english/tetuduki/kanri/shyorui/01....

minimum requirements for diff type of visa
http://www.moj.go.jp/ENGLISH/information/mopca-01.html

look under number 2 of Specialist in Humanities/International Services

AND
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you need to have an employer first, before you can apply for a work visa in japan.

Sira, i think the OP is refering to school requirements for a Degree not the visa requirements.
Schools wont be willing to waive that at all.

That said there are schools that dont require degrees but from what I have seen they are small ones like the one I run.

Kevin, I have worked for eikaiwa schools which nominally required a degree or at least part of one completed, yet among the part-time staff were people on spouse visas etc with no degree or university study at all.

In some cases as long as you interview well and come across as fairly articulate there is some wiggle room. This may all change with the collapse of Nova and increase in competition for jobs however,

Apologies Sira, I didnt consider part time when posting.

I'd suggest you get a qualification such as a Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) which you can do in Australia at an accedited language school. Probably this would be a 3-4 week course. Good luck!