All applicants must be civilians and governed in the first instance by Japanese law.

We regret that we are not able to accept applications from military or "Self Defence Force" personnel of any nationality, or - currently - from members of the "discipline" services such as the Fire Service.

We may re-home to individuals with diplomatic immunity at the Director's discretion.

[Note that in the light of the Anne Sacoolas incident, we do not rehome to members of the US Military, US Government employees or individuals with U.S. Diplomatic immunity under any circumstances.]