Good fit
Professionals whose proposed role fits the listed engineering, humanities, translation, design, language-teaching, marketing, or related activities and who have a qualifying contract with an institution in Japan.
Japan · Skilled Worker
Engineer / Specialist in Humanities / International Services
A Japan work residence status for technical, humanities, and certain foreign-culture-based activities performed under a contract with a public or private institution in Japan.
Status note. Japan's Immigration Services Agency publishes the status and application-document requirements in Japanese. This fixture is limited to the retained status page and remains under human review.
Decision fit
Who this pathway serves
Important limits
Applicants seeking a general self-sponsored or remote-income status. The retained ISA page describes institution-based work and does not establish a universal salary, family, PR, or citizenship rule.
Minimums
Eligibility
Age
No hard age floor or ceiling is modeled.
Work experience
Minimum: Not stated years
Relevant education or work-history evidence is required in the application materials, with conditions varying by the activity and applicant.
Language
Not stated
Education
Minimum: Unknown — confirm with the official source
Assessment: Unknown — confirm with the official source
The ISA application materials distinguish education and relevant-work-experience evidence by activity and applicant category; this fixture does not generalize one universal threshold.
Selection threshold
Points: Not stated
Competition: Not stated
Health and character
Medical exam: Unknown — confirm with the official source
Police certificate: Unknown — confirm with the official source
Costs
Funds and fees
Settlement funds
No settlement-fund table is published.
Application fees
No fee table is published.
Outcomes
Residence, work, and family
Permanent residence
The retained ISA status page does not establish a permanent-residence pathway.
Work: Yes · Study: Unknown — confirm with the official source
Family
Partner: Unknown — confirm with the official source · Children: Unknown — confirm with the official source
Citizenship
The retained ISA status page does not establish a citizenship pathway.
Processing time
The ISA page provides application procedures and document categories but no single processing-time value in the retained text.
Modeled: Not stated–Not stated months
Sources
Official sources
Citations
Field provenance
Information only, not legal advice. Rules, fees, and processing times change. Confirm the linked official pages before acting.