{"id":137,"date":"2024-02-06T07:51:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T07:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yabe-sensei.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2024-02-11T01:09:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T01:09:56","slug":"dreams-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yabe-sensei.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/06\/dreams-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dream is a Dream Unless You Make it Into Reality."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let&#8217;s suppose you want to go to Japan. You saw <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One Piece <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in middle school, and since then, you&#8217;ve taught yourself Japanese to the point where you don&#8217;t need subtitles to understand what the characters say. So, you are pretty sure you can survive in Japan as a traveler or maybe even as a semester-long exchange student. You also know the longer you stay in Japan, your language skills will improve. Although you searched for another way to live in Japan for a substantial period, you failed. Or so you think.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is true there is little information on the internet about options for going to Japan to live. Getting a job in Japan is one. But it may not be that easy if you are a high school student without work experience. Teaching English to Japanese students is a big industry and a source of employment, but I suspect very few schools will entertain hiring someone without a college degree.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But there is another option for high school students: Attending college as a full-time student. Yes, you, an American high school student, can be accepted into colleges in Japan without going through the infamous entrance examination &#8220;hell.&#8221; As Japanese colleges and universities grapple with the wave of globalization, many have adopted different admissions gateways for students from overseas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to make your dream come true, stay tuned. I will tell you more details about how you can get into Japanese colleges in this blog.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you, an American high school student, can be accepted into colleges in Japan without going through the infamous entrance examination &#8220;hell.&#8221; As Japanese colleges and universities grapple with the wave of globalization, many have adopted different admissions gateways for students from overseas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yabe-sensei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yabe-sensei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yabe-sensei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yabe-sensei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yabe-sensei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yabe-sensei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/yabe-sensei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yabe-sensei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yabe-sensei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yabe-sensei.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}