YOU NEED A “150 HOUR CIRTIFICATE”

Beginning in March 2025, the Japanese government made it much more difficult to go to a Japanese language school. Unfortunately, a certificate of “150 hours of studying Japanese” is now REQUIRED to get a student visa. This certificate typically costs a few hundred US dollars, but One Year Visa is working with a school in Osaka to create a FREE online course that gets you “150 hour” certificate in only 90 days. Watch the video for more information.

UPDATE: October 3, 2025

Good news: The online course is 99% finished.
Bad news: The Japanese government requires the online course needs to be “endorsed” by a real Japanese language school. This process will take some more time. I will have a meeting with a school in three weeks, and hopefully we can make a deal quickly. Please watch the video for more information.

These countries are now required to prove “150 hours” of studying Japanese:

Asia:
Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, China, China [Hong Kong], China [Macau], Türkiye, Brunei, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia
Pacific:
Australia, Samoa, Tuvalu, Tonga, Nauru, New Zealand, Balao, Fiji, Marshall Islands
North America:
United States, Canada
Latin America:
Argentina, Antigua and Barbuda, Uruguay, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Cuba, Guatemala, Grenada, Costa Rica, Zimbabwe, Suriname, Colombia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Chile, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Panama, Bahamas, Paraguay, Barbados, Brazil, Venezuela, Belize, Peru, Mexico
Europe:
Iceland, Ireland, Azerbaijan, Albania, Armenia, Andorra, United Kingdom, Italy, Ukraine, Estonia, Austria, Netherlands, Kazakhstan, North Macedonia, Cyprus, Greece, Croatia, Republic of Kosovo, San Marino, Georgia, Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, Slovakia, Skopje, Serbia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Turkmenistan, Norway, Hungary, Finland, France, Bulgaria, Belarus, Belgium, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Portugal, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Latvia, Lithuania, Liechtenstein, Romania, Luxembourg, Russia
Middle East:
United Arab Emirates, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain

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