Highly skilled professional visa

Highly skilled professional (i) (a)/(b)/(c) (Examples: highly-skilled human resources per “Points System”)
Highly skilled foreign professional (Examples: dependents of the highly skilled foreign professional, etc.)
Working visa

Professor (Examples: university professor, assistant professor, assistant, etc.)
Artist (Examples: composers, songwriters, artists, sculptors, craftspeople, photographers, etc.)
Religious activities (Examples: religious people such as monks, bishops, missionaries, etc.)
Journalist (Examples: newspaper journalists, magazine journalists, editors, news cameramen, announcers, etc.)
Business manager (Examples: company presidents, directors, etc.)
Legal/Accounting services (Examples: attorneys, judicial scriveners, public accountants, tax accountants, etc. certified in Japan)
Medical services (Examples: physicians, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, etc. certified in Japan)
Researcher (Examples: researchers, investigators, etc. at research institutes, etc.)
Instructor (Examples: teachers, etc. at elementary schools, intermediate schools and high schools)
Engineer/Specialist in humanities/International services (Examples: scientific engineers, IT engineers, foreign language teachers, interpreters, copywriters, designers, etc.)
Intra-company transferee (Examples: people transferred to the Japanese branch (head office of the same company, etc.)
Entertainer (Examples: musicians, actors, singers, dancers, sportspeople, models, etc.)
Skilled labor (Examples: chefs specializing in the food of a foreign country, animal trainers, pilots, sports trainers, sommeliers, etc.)
General visa

Cultural activities (Examples: unpaid internships, people studying the tea ceremony or Japanese flower arranging, etc.)
Student (Examples: college students, pre-college students, etc.)
Training (Examples: trainees in a local government, etc.)
Dependent (Family stays) (Examples: The spouse and children of a foreign national with working visa, etc.)
General visa: Technical intern training (i)(a)/(b) (Examples: Technical intern)
Specified visa

Spouse or child of Japanese national (Examples: spouse of a Japanese national, biological child of a Japanese national)
Spouse of permanent resident (Examples: spouse of a permanent resident)
Long-term resident (Examples: persons with Japanese ancestry, Indochinese refugee settlers, the spouse or children of Japanese nationals left behind in China, etc.)
Designated activities (Examples: foreign nationals who wish to enter Japan as personal help privately employed by diplomats, etc., foreign nationals who wish to enter Japan for a working holiday or for paid internships, candidate nurses and care workers who wish to enter Japan based on an EPA, etc.)
Designated activities (Long Stay for sightseeing and recreation)
Diplomatic visa

Diplomat (Examples: diplomatic agents, diplomatic couriers, etc.)
Official visa

Official (Examples: administrative and technical staffs of diplomatic missions and members of the service staff, etc.)