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[david_chiu21]

Does anyone know any videogame industry contacts in Tokyo? Or does anyone know how to get arrange a meeting videogame company? Plus do you know of any companies that give tours? I am trying to find an internship for next summer. There is this friend of a friend of a friend who works at Square Enix and a few school alum but that's all I got for now. Thanks.

 

[ManDudeChild]

Me no speaky Engrish.

 

[Sho Nuff]

Does anyone know any videogame industry contacts in Tokyo? Or does anyone know how to get arrange a meeting videogame company? Plus do you know of any companies that give tours? I am trying to find an internship for next summer. There is this friend of a friend of a friend who works at Square Enix and a few school alum but that's all I got for now. Thanks.

Internship at a Japanese video game company? I've never heard of that.

Who's the contact at Sqeenix? (PM me if you don't wanna say who it is publicly).

 

[Troidal]

Do you speak Japanese? You'll need that if you plan for internship here. I haven't heard of internship at Japanese game companies either.

 

[david_chiu21]

I haven't met him/her yet. It's a friend of a friend of a friend. Going to meet at this party sometime soon. That's all I know for now. Just found out today, actually.

 

[david_chiu21]

I have taken a year of Japanese and will be here for a total of 5 months so I guess I will be semi-fluent by the time I leave. But I can always intern at an international division or translation or teach English to the employees or something. I think I heard somewhere that internships don't really exist in Japan but I'm not sure about that.

 

[Brofist]

I have taken a year of Japanese and will be here for a total of 5 months so I guess I will be semi-fluent by the time I leave. But I can always intern at an international division or translation or teach English to the employees or something. I think I heard somewhere that internships don't really exist in Japan but I'm not sure about that.

What do you mean by semi-fluent? Conversational and semi-fluent aren't nearly the same. I've taken 3 years of Japanese at university level (1 in Japan) and have lived in Japan for 2 years (minus small amount of time visiting US) and I probably couldn't apply for the janitor position at Square yet. I think if you can pass level 2 of the JPT (I will take it this winter) then you are approaching semi-fluent...course if you pass lvl 1 JPT, then you da man

 

[david_chiu21]

Well, I'm not applying for a real position. I was thinking a temp or internship job. And something that does not require a solid grasp of the Japanese language, like teaching employees English. I have heard of companies that do this. This probably won't be in the developers division but more in the international relations and business division and stuff.

 

[Troidal]

If that is the case, you probably should take the English conversations school route. Sometimes you'll get assigned to teach a group of people who are employees at a videogame company. Otherwise, I dont think companies hire individuals alone to teach, especially considering how they are very secretive about their intellectual properties.

 

[david_chiu21]

How do you know all this Troidal? Have you done it before?

 

[Troidal]

Hey David, please check your PM.

 

[MrSingh]

I have taken a year of Japanese and will be here for a total of 5 months so I guess I will be semi-fluent by the time I leave. But I can always intern at an international division or translation or teach English to the employees or something. I think I heard somewhere that internships don't really exist in Japan but I'm not sure about that.

5 months and semi fluent.

some people have done it! ganbare!

 

[Sho Nuff]

"I was thinking a temp or internship job. And something that does not require a solid grasp of the Japanese language, like teaching employees English. I have heard of companies that do this. This probably won't be in the developers division but more in the international relations and business division and stuff."

Uhhh... this leans a little too much into the "fantasy" department. Big companies send their people -- if they even bother at all -- to Nova (ugh!) and Berlitz. It's not like Bob the Wacky Non-Japanese-Speaking Gaijin shows up at Namco kaihatsu every Thursday to teach the Tekken 5 team English and beta test on the side.

 

[MrSingh]

Uhhh... this leans a little too much into the "fantasy" department. Big companies send their people -- if they even bother at all -- to Nova (ugh!) and Berlitz. It's not like Bob the Wacky Non-Japanese-Speaking Gaijin shows up at Namco kaihatsu every Thursday to teach the Tekken 5 team English and beta test on the side.

No they just hire porn lovin' kansai ben speaking italian gay studs to do that job.

 

[Ozchin]

No they just hire porn lovin' kansai ben speaking italian gay studs to do that job.

Damn straight... I mean, gay. Mamma Miiiiiiiia!

 

[JackFrost2012]

Yeah I hate to say this, David, but 1) the job you want does not exist and 2) even if it did you are not qualified for it. Maybe after several more years of Japanese study you'll be ready for a low-level position.