Are Stonemasons needed in Japan ?

[Schewadnaze]

Hello !

I´ve thought alot about to go to japan and work there for a few months but i dont know if its possible with the craft i learned. I worked in many different countries like Australia, French, England, Spain, Swiss, Austria, Romania.
I´m a Stonemason most of the time i restaurate old Buildings sometimes i made Headstones or other stuff in stone. I tried before to get some information about working in japan but is hard to find. Hopefully someone here is able to give me some :)

[ASSEMbler]

Well there are various complications to working in Japan.

If you get past those, your best bet is to visit in person the masons and
present them with a card and show them pictures of your work on an ipad or
something and ask them for a chance.

You'll probably need to learn Japanese as I don't see masons being fluent in english or german.

[Yakumo]

There are many places that make headstones and so on so there is a need for stonemasions but why would they need a non-Japanese? As ASSEMbler said, there are many things to overcome first and you most likely will need to know Japanese.

[ASSEMbler]

Unless he is skilled in making things like gargoyles and european special mansonry like Jesus sculptures.
He could become the one "Jesus guy" in Japan but I am sure it would be a hard life for sure.

[Yakumo]

Hehehe, that would be cool to be known as "The Jesus Guy" :)

[C-Kronos]

Hehehe, that would be cool to be known as "The Jesus Guy" :)

It'd only be cool to be known as the "jesus guy" if you had long hair, a goatee, and smoked a lot of marijuana.. Then again, that's just my opinion, haha.. I can't imagine having a career making sculptures of Jesus of Nazareth; it would seriously suck.

[Schewadnaze]

eeehmm definetly not will known as the freaky ganja smokin jesus guy who carves some stone ( and btw i have no long hairs^^ )
I´m skilled and work in this job since 10 Years also i´m not an artist only a craftman. In every foreign country, mostly they have a lot of good skilled craftmans and this is the mattering fact for me. I like to learn from them further unike technikes they have maybe just in their country. Like this way i learned a lot since i began to travel.
I´m not out for to live forever there :)

[GaijinPunch]

Hehehe, that would be cool to be known as "The Jesus Guy" :)

It's not all it's cracked up to be.