So is it strange that erotic is okay but violence is not ? <| sep |> He didn ' t say who said it ' s going to be akuma , he went further and said who said we are putting someone else in the game ? <| sep |> You won ' t be able to go into companies through the new grad route given your age but then again , you probably don ' t want to it ' s not exactly a great experience even for fresh grads , let alone for someone older and more experienced . You ' ll want to look at midcareer recruitment opportunities instead . If you have solid data science skills you ' ll probably find them in demand at quite a few companies here salary for those positions may not match what you ' d get in the US or Europe , but will be significantly ahead of what commonorgarden developers are paid . If you want to stay in academia , Postdoc positions definitely exist too , although in my field at least universities seem to prefer to appoint Associate Professors rather than having a lot of Postdoc positions , which may be a function of Japanese universities being generally more teaching than researchoriented . This isn ' t relevant if you go down the postdoc route , but one of the universal pieces of advice given to PhD holders looking at moving into nonacademic work is that it ' s vital to break out your PhD into solid , workrelevant skills you acquired and applied . Employers generally don ' t understand or care what ' s involved in a PhD and may have difficulty seeing what the value of your experience was . If you say Physics PhD people visualise someone who knows a lot about physics and very little else if on the other hand you present that as a set of skills including data science , programming , project management , presentation collaboration , writing up etc . , then the relevance to a different field of employment is much clearer . That ' s general advice for PhDholders everywhere but it ' s no less relevant to Japan . Note that if you ' ve got a few publications under your belt three I think is the requirement now , a PhD and N 1 Japanese , you ' re probably going to be eligible for the Highly Skilled Professional visa , which has a number of benefits over a normal working visa , the most notable of which is the ability to apply for PR after 5 years which may be reduced to 3 from next year rather than 10 . I wouldn ' t worry too much about socialising and integrating . Not everyone comes here fresh from their undergraduate degree . I was over 30 when I moved here longterm and never found it to be a barrier to my social life . If anything , arriving a little later gives you a better chance to slot into a more settled and relaxed community in your twenties it just seems to be a constant froth of people arriving for 1 to 2 years and then leaving , which makes it hard to build meaningful social relationships .