/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I could easily do my job anywhere on the planet with an internet connection, but strangely a lot of countries (including Japan) only issue work visas if your employer does business in your host country.

This seems counterintuitive to me, since if I lived in Japan and a Japanese business paid my salary, money isn't coming into the Japanese economy, it's just circulating. However if my native country is paying my salary, then all the money and taxes I spend in Japan are NEW wealth being transferred into Japan from my native country.

So it seems like most nations would be happy to issue visas to international telecommuters, but this isn't the case for some reason.