Health care Career

[mikaboshiff]

Ok, i have 2 degree's in healthcare. Almost a 3rd, which i will finish up sooner or later. Anyways, i've always wanted to live and work in japan since i was 13, i am now 25. Now that i am through with school i was wondering if i can get a career in my field there. I have just graduated with all this mind you, no other experience other than school experience and clinicals. I have a degree in Radiation Technology (xray) and one in Radiation Therapy (treating Cancer Patients) The last one is the one i would like to find a job in in japan. I know no work experience isn't too pretty. Hell its not too pretty here in the states, but what can i do? I've been applying everywhere and haven't found one yet so i figured, might as well try japan too eh? What do you guys think? Think i have a chance within my field in japan? I'm licensed here in the states for all this, but im sure im not in japan. Im still wondering if i would be considered for hirability though.

[Keeptrying]

Can you speak fluent Japanese?

[mikaboshiff]

Uhh,,, no i can't. I'd be lying if i said i could. I speak english only atm. Very little japanese.

[trip_hop]

Not a chance, you'd need to have passed the Japanese exams in Japanese, as well as be invited to work by a Japanese institution.

And FYI, Japanese are quite sensitive to the issues of radiotherapy as opposed to diagnostic radiology; they inadvertently received plenty of the former following the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[TJrandom]

What about the military bases - they have hospitals, and rather large, full service ones at that.

There are also companies that coordinate international health rescue/repatriation services - so one of them may have an opening.

[Keeptrying]

Uhh,,, no i can't. I'd be lying if i said i could. I speak english only atm. Very little japanese.

OK, so if I go to China with zero Chinese, for example, to work in health care system, how do rate my chances?
I don't see how you came up with this, I really don't.

[TJrandom]

Please take a look at the linked article – as it seems that it will become easier to get certified as a nurse. However, I doubt that this easier testing would carry over to additional specialties – but you never know.

http://www.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/24_35.html

[Keeptrying]

Please take a look at the linked article – as it seems that it will become easier to get certified as a nurse. However, I doubt that this easier testing would carry over to additional specialties – but you never know.

http://www.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/24_35.html

But the OP has 'very little Japanese'.

How do you go from that to being a health care worker here in a time span somewhere between now and croaking it??

Mind you, I have always dreamed about being a brain surgeon in Kazakhstan. I don't know Kazakh language, but do you think my dream can come true?

[TJrandom]

But the OP has 'very little Japanese'.

How do you go from that to being a health care worker here in a time span somewhere between now and croaking it?? ...

Yes - agreed.... But, in 2011 he/she is hired at one of the military bases - where experience is gained. In 2017, Japan converts to English tests, but he has been learning Japanese along the way and now has a 4th degree from Todai and is perfectly aligned to start as a junior nurse at a senior center in Hokkaido - where senile GPers are sent starting that same year. And lucky you - you get to meet him in person - so bend over please.....

OK, not realistic – but that was the intent of posting that link – to educate on the difficulty….

[mikaboshiff]

my, i didnt think japanese was a requirement to working in the RADIO THERAPY FIELD. Japan is just a place to work, like any other place in the world. Not to mention, English is practically the universal language. Language can be learned with some effort, but the skills i have cannot be obtained so easily.
And what do bombings have to do with any of that? Fact of the matter is, YOU HAVE CANCER. The only other treatment is chemo, which success chances are not great by itself. You have radiation as a choice, there could be secondary cancer resulting later in life because of the radiation treatment... BUT you die now with cancer, or you take radiation and live an extra 10 - 15 years or so. Your choice?
The radiotherapy rebuke is a joke. Thats like saying the radium dial panters of the whatever era in the usa wouldn't want it to cure any intestinal or oral cancers >_>
I do however agree that some knowledge of japanese would be a necessity for the job.

[Keeptrying]

Not to mention, English is practically the universal language. Language can be learned with some effort,

You must be an American.

The universe is still out on adopting English as a universal language.

[Keeptrying]

I do however agree that some knowledge of japanese would be a necessity for the job.

That's the spirit! Get the old 'Nihongo in 10 Minutes a Day for Gaijin Health Care Workers' phrasebook out and you'll be fine to let loose on Japan's sick masses.




What is it recently? One daft troll with the Japan dream entirely divorced from reality exits and another is there within days. Same troll?

[KansaiBen]

my, i didnt think japanese was a requirement to working in the RADIO THERAPY FIELD. Japan is just a place to work, like any other place in the world. Not to mention, English is practically the universal language.

Not in Japan its not. Are you one of these Americans who thinks everyone outside the US speaks English, and looks for McDonalds when visiting Paris?

I do however agree that some knowledge of japanese would be a necessity for the job.

Thats rather an understatement. Its like saying knowing some English would be useful if you want to work in the US.

PS to get a skilled labor visa you need ten years experience in your field, including your degree.

[trip_hop]

my, i didnt think japanese was a requirement to working in the RADIO THERAPY FIELD. Japan is just a place to work, like any other place in the world. Not to mention, English is practically the universal language. Language can be learned with some effort, but the skills i have cannot be obtained so easily.
And what do bombings have to do with any of that? Fact of the matter is, YOU HAVE CANCER. The only other treatment is chemo, which success chances are not great by itself. You have radiation as a choice, there could be secondary cancer resulting later in life because of the radiation treatment... BUT you die now with cancer, or you take radiation and live an extra 10 - 15 years or so. Your choice?
The radiotherapy rebuke is a joke. Thats like saying the radium dial panters of the whatever era in the usa wouldn't want it to cure any intestinal or oral cancers >_>
I do however agree that some knowledge of japanese would be a necessity for the job.

1) Oncology 101: active treatment options for cancer: surgery, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, radiotherapy. That's FOUR. And then alternative medicine, lifestyle modifications, etc..


2) Radioactive substances are highly regulated in Japan, and the whole subject of ionising radiation, whether beneficial or harmful, is a sensitive issue. Many isotopes are not available here, either for diagnostic or therapeutic modalities. I've first hand experience of it from work at Hiroshima Univ. Hospital, as well as nuclear medicine.


3) Japan is the only country in the world to have been subjected to atomic bombing, not including various island tests, DU weapons, deliberate and inadvertent release. It is deep in the Japanese's "victim" psyche.

[trip_hop]

However, I doubt that this easier testing would carry over to additional specialties – but you never know.

For many of the professions related to medicine; such as pharmacy, PT, OT, X-Ray tech, dental hygienist, you'd need to have passed the Japanese exams in Japanese, as well as be invited to work by a Japanese institution.

What is it recently? One daft troll with the Japan dream entirely divorced from reality exits and another is there within days. Same troll?

The grass is always greener on the other side, except when in Japan and it is bluer...

[TJrandom]

...Japan is just a place to work, like any other place in the world. ....

No No No... not true. Professional fields, along with many others use Certification Testing as a control on how many can enter the field - so it really doesn't matter what you know - but rather Can you pass the test? That test has been intentionally screwed to weed out all but the best test-takers so that the few who pass will have a great income and no competition.

Do check out the military hospitals – they do hire civilians, and if you put as much effort into learning Japanese – as you have already expended in obtaining your three degrees – then maybe you might pass a test.

[Keeptrying]

And why's the troll posting twice?

http://forum.gaijinpot.com/showthrea...healthcare-job

[mikaboshiff]

Looks like trying is trolling again. Someone feed him. he needs his attention for the day.