Destination guide
🇯🇵 Working in Japan
Routes are the Technical Intern Training Program and Specified Skilled Worker (SSW) visa, which need language and skills tests. Agencies that promise to skip the tests are not genuine.
Standard week
40 hours
Overtime (min.)
1.25×
Rest day / holiday
1.35× / 1.35×
Currency
JPY ≈ ৳0.82
Labour Standards Act: overtime +25%, statutory holidays +35%, late night +25%.
Where to check officially
Scams we see in this corridor
- ⚠"No test needed" Japan visas
- ⚠Language-school fees used as a backdoor to work
Documents you should hold
- 📄 Passport
- 📄 Japanese language test certificate (JLPT / JFT-Basic)
- 📄 SSW skills test certificate
- 📄 Certificate of Eligibility (COE)
- 📄 BMET emigration clearance (smart card)
- 📄 Issued e-ticket
From Bangladesh
- Overseas Employment Platform (OEP), The government's digital system for the whole migration cycle: NID-verified registration, training and PDO, job matching, emigration clearance, the licensed agency list, and complaints if the job differs from what was promised.
- OEP licensed recruiting agency list, Check that an agency's RL (licence) number and name appear on the government's official list. This is the main check for any recruiter.
- RAIMS agency directory (BMET), A second official lookup for recruiting agencies, with licence details.
- Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET), The overseas employment regulator: notices, maximum migration costs, training centres and links into OEP. 16135
- Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment, The parent ministry: policy, notices and links to BMET, WEWB, PKB, BOESL and OEP.
- Probash Bondhu Call Centre, The government's 24-hour helpline for migrant workers and families: information, problems abroad and reporting fraud. From abroad: +880 9610 102030. 16135
- Grievance Redress System (GRS), National online complaints system for government offices including BMET. Complaints against an agency or a job mismatch can also be filed in the OEP worker portal.
- BOESL, Bangladesh Overseas Employment and Services Ltd, The government-owned recruiter for G2G and low-cost channels such as Korea (EPS) and Japan. Check genuine BOESL circulars here.
- BAIRA member directory, The recruiting agencies' association. Secondary only, always confirm the RL on the OEP list.
- Wage Earners' Welfare Board (WEWB), Welfare-fund services: death compensation, repatriation, scholarships, legal aid and returnee support. 16135
- Probashi Kallyan Bank, State bank with low-interest migration loans (instead of moneylenders), rehabilitation loans and remittance services.