See your score update as you choose each condition, including the distance to 70 and 80 points and any items that still need checking.
Everything you enter here — age, income and the rest — is calculated on this page only; nothing is sent or saved.
Select only items you can support with evidence. Your score updates with every change.
Advanced specialized / technical activities
Income points auto-apply by age threshold (e.g. 40+ scores only at ¥8M+).
Confirm income is at least ¥3M; this category has a minimum.
The points table, preferential measures, and application pages can update separately.
The points table on this page was checked line by line against the Immigration Services Agency's official points calculation table (930001657.pdf) on 2026-08-12. Later revisions may not be reflected.
Points alone do not decide the route. The student → work status → Highly Skilled Professional → PR map lives in the residency strategy guide.
Open residency strategyThe point system's value is seeing where you fall short: salary, degree, Japanese, research each carry points. The estimate sets direction.
Researcher, engineer, and manager tables score differently; pick the identity line before counting.
The biggest item — use the compensation of the organization you will join, not past payslips.
Japanese is the highest-leverage bonus: N1 +15, N2 +10 (conditional). A few points short? Look here first.
Papers, patents, grants count only with proof — every point you tally must be presentable.
70 opens the status; 80 cuts the PR fast-track from 3 years to 1. Ten points apart is worth engineering.
The table gets revised; verify against the same-day official sheet, and consult a gyoseishoshi when in doubt.
