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If you are a member of LinkedIn, you can now get together with nearly 500 others who share the same interests. Please link through to http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2810721 . Start a discussion, share news! Just join the group and start networking. Good luck.  After a number of recent posts from foreigners working in Japan our latest interview has a slightly different face, that of Yutaka Kurahashi, Chief Artist at Q-Games. As a Japanese employee working along side foreigners in Japan he provides a good counter point to the discussion of issues to be tackled in a mixed work place, from [...] Brandon Sheffield has worked on a number of projects with Japanese companies. Though he never resided in Japan, his work has seen him involved in both roles as consultant and writer. He offers a different perspective to our previous interviews, partly in that the companies he worked a long side were far more traditional and [...] Interactive Selection placed Jaymin Kessler at Q-Games in May 2008. Following on from our last post here at Games Jobs Japan we have another interview about the problems and benefits of working in Japan. Having previously worked at a number of North America companies, EA and Hypnotix, he made his move to Japan where he [...] Q-Games is a Kyoto based game company that was founded in 2001 by Dylan Cuthbert. As a Japanese based company Q-Games is notable for being composed primarily of foreign employees – several of which have been introduced by Interactive Selection, with only 70% of staff being native to Japan. The remaining 30% are a diverse group, [...] Japan is famous for being polite and ordered. This of course flows over into the work environment, and while foreign staff members are often allowed more leeway, it is still important to have a good idea of the difference in work culture.Any big company will have its own ethos, especially in a progressive industry like [...] CyberConnect2 from Fukuoka, Japan is the developer of Narruto Shippuden – ultimate Ninja Storm 2. President and CEO Hiroshi Matsutama shows us around his studio. We get to meet Game Director, Yuki Nishikawa, and Lead Designer, Yokei Ishibashi who talk about making the art for the games. Watch the full video that follows: This video from the TheJapanChannelDcom just emphasises that it is still difficult to get visas at games comapnies in Japan. Your best bet is always to work with a specialist games agency like Interactive Selection with a track record of finding jobs for programmers and a few other specialist roles in Japan. There are a [...] A recent thread on the notorious 2ch BBS system asked Japanese video game programmers, what is your take-home pay per month? Matt Altus translated a few of the answers, and the numbers reported seem surprisingly low: “¥130,000 For 256 hours of work a month.” (For reference, a ‘normal’ 40-hour work week equals 160 hours per month.) “My only take-home [...] World fighting game champion Justin Wong joins Games Voice on their Japan quest for shopping, Club Sega & Tekken. A good introduction to the world of games on the streets of Tokyo in Japan. |
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