Gaijin Hunter Careers · Japan

Tools

Interactive calculators for the numbers every foreigner researching Japan needs to know, which visa you qualify for, your HSP point score, and what an offer pays after tax.

Visa eligibility checker

Four questions about education, age, salary, and job offer. Returns a short list of visa categories you might qualify for.

Check eligibility

HSP points calculator

Score yourself against the Highly Skilled Professional point system. 70+ unlocks the 5-year visa; 80+ unlocks permanent residency in one year.

Calculate points

Take-home pay calculator

Enter gross annual JPY. Get your estimated monthly and annual net after Japan's social insurance, income tax, and residence tax.

Calculate net

JD match analyzer

Paste any job description. We extract requirements, score it against your profile, and surface specific talking points and questions to ask.

Analyze a JD

Visa timeline & checklist

Pick your visa type. Get an interactive step-by-step checklist with realistic durations and exact documents needed at each step.

Open checklist

Cost-of-living comparator

Compare your current city + salary to a Japan offer. We factor in tax rates and cost-of-living indices to give you a Tokyo-equivalent purchasing power.

Compare cities

Relocation budget calculator

The cash you need before your first paycheck: apartment move-in (key money, deposit, guarantor), flights, shipping, furnishing, and a survival buffer, minus your employer's relocation package.

Estimate your move

Resume bullet improver

Paste a weak bullet. Rule-based diagnostics catch missing metrics, weak verbs, filler language, and cliché adjectives, with concrete rewrite suggestions.

Improve a bullet

Interview prep

Role-specific question banks, what interviewers actually look for, Japan-specific cultural tips, and a STAR answer builder that saves drafts.

Prepare

Salary insights 2026

Comprehensive industry benchmarks across 11 sectors and 580+ roles. East/West Japan splits, percentiles, offer comparator.

View insights