How difficult is it for a family of three to move to Japan?
Ghidorah covered my point very well. Japan is not a place to take a family unless you have a skill besides teaching English. To repeat, middle class foreigners do not send kids to international schools. You’d never be able to afford it. They enroll their kids in Japanese schools, where the instruction is entirely in Japanese. This can be great for a tiny kid with the right disposition. They will learn Japanese! But getting into any public schools is a very tough battle– as the population has dropped, public schools have closed. And attending Japanese school is a horrible experience for older children, who are completely lost without any way of learning Japanese in school. It’s not like they provide the equivalent of ESL for your kid in Japanese schools. Homeschooling a child over 7 is the way to go. Then put the kid in some activity, like soccer or tea ceremony with Japanese kids. But not school. If you really want to make a go of living in Osaka, it is less taxing for families to liv
