A google search such as: site:www.gamasutra.com work japan yielded these results: The Story of Score Studios: Westerners Move East Working In Japanese Game Development: The Other Side Of The Rainbow Made In Japan: Western Perspectives On Japanese Game Development site:boards.polycount.net work japan came up with: Looking…
I don't normally like to bump posts but it's been a few days now without getting a response, and I'm sure someone out there has experience working in Japan, China or Korea. If so, any information at all would be fantastic. If I don't get a reply this time around, I'll just let this topic die - I promise :P
try googling your question, there's some blogs and articles out there regarding getting jobs in games and animation in japan and the whole experience of working there as a westener. also some related threads on CGTalk. from what i recall reading some of those: it seems it's important to being rather fluent in the language…