Before study in Japan, you should make it clear why you will study in Japan. There are too many options so you must choose the most suitable one for yourself based on your career planning.
Firstly, you have to decide your future career, after you graduate from a university, graduate and other higher educational institutions in Japan. Only this decision will help you choose what kind of institution or which major you will study. If you don't have any vision or goal of your career, we are going to encourage you to find it in other related section.
After you decide your next career, let's research about the Japanese educational system. This is because it is so unique compared with any other country, and there are a lot of choices thanks to the high quality educational opportunities there, but these may confuse you when you try to decide the higher educational institution where you will enter.
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At last, you need to decide the major you will study in Japan. What kind of major or subject you can learn doesn't only depend on the type of educational institutions but also each educational institution. That's why if you want to know more about majors, you can search on this website from these below links:
Know yourself, such as skills, interests and personalities (self-assessment) and make lists of your characteristics. In addition, narrow your career options through collecting information about career, industries, companies and so on.
Compare your most expected career with the factors you have prioritized
Besides your self-assessment, consider the outside environment. For example, the simple and routine work will be replaced with robots and Al (Artificial Intelligence) near future, so you need to consider whether the skills you are going to master will meet the needs of society or not.
Through these consideration and comparison, your final decision will become your future career. You can progress in this direction.
After you decide your career, you must set the concrete plans to achieve your career goal. According to the below framework, make short-term plan (a few years or less) and long-term plan (more than five years, like ten years).
To achieve your SMART goals, make your action plans, which clearly means what you are going to do. Then, you can follow these action plans.
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