Interact Nova Group

If you want to spend a year teaching English in Japan, Nova is the by far and away the easiest program to go through. They make you work 40 hours a week, which sounds normal, but everyone else teaching English in Japan only works 20 or so (that might be a mild exaggeration). It’s the McDonald’s of English schools and you have a set schedule, place to live, and friends as soon as you arrive in Japan. The other nice thing is they place you in cool parts of the country and you can transfer if you please. Some people stay with the company for years, I lasted one. It’s interesting to work in a Japanese-​style office and I learned more in my year there, talking to students than I did in college (that might also be an exaggeration). I wouldn’t trade the cultural experience and the friends I made for anything, but I wouldn’t do it again. If you want to make some good money, go to small-​town Japan and you’ll be able to save pretty easily. The pay is mediocre though.