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Jobs in Japan no recruiter will show you
GaijinPot, LinkedIn, BizReach, Wantedly — most job boards in Japan are cluttered, recruiter-driven, and slow. Japan Job Scan crawls hundreds of company career pages directly, so you see openings before they're buried in a recruiter's inbox.
Every listing is scanned for English-friendliness and visa sponsorship signals straight from the original ATS posting, so you spend less time guessing and more time applying.
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Scans Greenhouse, Lever, Workday and dozens of other ATS systems
Filter to English-friendly roles in one click
Visa sponsorship signals read from real postings
Daily job alerts for your saved searches
Apply direct to the company, no recruiter in between
Free to search. Premium is $10/month for the full database, alerts, and salary data.
Recruiters in Japan typically charge companies 20-30% of your first year salary just to make the introduction — a cost that shapes which candidates get pushed forward and which offers get negotiated down. Applying direct means the company puts that budget toward you instead of a middleman, and you control the story you tell about your own experience, from the first message to the signed contract.
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