Washing Dishes in Japan

If you’re from some place like Britain, you may be able to get a Working Holiday visa in Japan.  For other nationalities, a Student visa will allow you to work part-time.  There are plenty of foreigners schlepping tables in restaurants and manning the register of the neighborhood convenience store.   I briefly considered enrolling in a language school full-time, particularly one near the beach so I could work in a surf shop, which would have been sweet.  But when I looked at the cost of language school, it was like paying money to come to Japan, rather than making money.  And that didn’t sound good at all.