I got some good news about this for my own case today so I'll write about it here. There's a few different ways you can enroll in Japanese studies in Japan, thus getting a student VISA and getting to live there.

1. Exchange program from your home country's school that already offers it. If you're a university student, you'll pay your home university tuition cost (ex. in my case, Swedish universities are free so I didn't have to pay tuition to my Japanese exchange school either). If you're a gymnasium/highschool student, you might have to pay a "program fee" (the money goes to the group organizing your exchange for you; if you stay with a host family, the host family might get paid a bit of it to cover your expenses with them). Usually you need to have studied to JLPT N4 (= Genki I and II) before you're allowed to go on exchange.

Entirely depending on your school, you can be in a host family or not. I've heard of university students who got host families but my Japanese school doesn't offer that.

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If you can get a job and stay in Japan without a degree, proven Japanese knowledge, whatever, DO THAT!! If your uncle owns a takoyaki business in Osaka and will get you a VISA no problem, go for it!! But this is for us other folks, sigh.

If you're curious about what getting a 3-year university degree (= BA) in Japanese is like, look at my page here.

Hey, I thought we might as well make a masterlist of series/movies/books with main characters who speak in dialect, and/or series that have dialectal dubbed versions. This is meant for self-studying dialects so minor background characters, or characters with only 1-2 random dialectal words thrown in etc are a bit too unhelpful to put here. If a book is written entirely in dialect or something, that'd be great.

last updated: 01.12.2018

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Kansai - Oosaka. Examples:






• Trigun (Wolfwood)
• Card Captor Sakura (Kero-chan)
• 二ノ国 (NDS game)