Planning to Move to Japan through SSW Then Language School and University

SSW employees are typically paid around 200,000 yen a month. After tax deduction that would be about 170,000 yen a month. If you times that by 12 months that would be about 2,040,000 yen per year but obviously you must pay for living costs. I think your estimate language school fee has an extra 0 but even fixing that you have to save more than half of your salary every month, which is going to be rough or impossible in Japanese cost of living (rising steadily every day). One year of language school would not be enough to be functionable in university but you can't pay anyway and there are no scholarships for foreigners residing in Japan. Only thing left is to go home (the plane ticket would be expensive too) without a degree or language skills. My suggestion is to grind and go to university in your country and then think about advanced education or employment in Japan maybe.

It's not just the fees you need to save for. You need to save for your living expenses too. Immigration will require you to show approximately 2M yen in savings before they will issue you a student visa. But really you're going to need to save like 4x that much, because you're talking about both language school and university. You need to show proof of savings every time you renew your student visa. So if you do 2 years of language school and 4 years of university that's 6 years worth of student visas. You cannot pay 100% of your expenses with the 28 hours of work you're allowed as a student, so you need to have a bunch of savings in advance. Let's be generous and say that you earn half of your expenses while you're a student. And that's being *very* generous, as you're more likely only going to earn like 1/3. Initial language school application: 2M yen in savings. 2nd year of language school renewal: 1M yen earnings, 1M yen of savings. So you need an additional 1M yen to make the 2M required. (Total savings required: 3M yen) Years 1-4 of university: Same thing. 1M in savings and 1M in earnings, so plus 1M yen in savings each year. (Total required savings: 7M yen) So you'll need to save 7-8M yen in order to successfully prepare yourself for language school/university. Saving that much on SSW wages is going to take a ***very*** long time.