Embassies

Your first point of contact regarding Japanese visa eligibility is your local Japanese embassy. If you are already in Japan, you may want to contact your home country’s embassy. There are official lists for both of these. These are the places you need to contact for official information about your Japanese work visa and other Japanese immigration issues.

  • MOFA’s Web Server Network is the Ministry of Foreign Affaris of Japan’s official list of embassies and consulates around the world.
  • Embassy Avenue is the official website list of foreign embassies in Japan. This is probably more useful if you are in Japan already and need information on visas and so on.

Updated 9 July 2005

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