A. Yes, although conditions are attached, you can work in Japan as a cooker of Japanese cuisine for a period not exceeding 5 years.

"Japanese cuisine overseas spreading human resource development project" was conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, decided in February, 2017, a "specific activity" visa will be granted and you can work as a Japanese cuisine cooker,if it is suit to you.

The "implementation executing agency" is meant to satisfy all of the following requirements of the cookery training facility and to carry out the affairs necessary for human resource development of overseas diffusion of Japanese food and food culture.

1. Personnel who conduct administrative work necessary for formulating self-study plan and implementing activities based on plan are secured.
2. To be recognized as a good and stable business situation.
3. Have permission to give employment placement based on the Employment Security Law or make notification.

Conditions of foreign cooks are as follows.

1. During the implementation period, one mastered the knowledge and skills necessary for cooking as a Japanese cooker, and had excellent achievements and good behaviors.
2. One has the will intend to enhance knowledge and skills of Japanese cuisine, and have the will to disseminate Japanese food and food culture to the world after returning to one's own country.
3. Being 18 years old or older at the time of commencing engaging in specific Japanese cooking activities.

A Japanese restaurant is said to correspond to a Japanese restaurant, a buckwheat noodle store, a sushi restaurant, okonomiyaki, yakisoba, Takoyaki restaurant and other eating and drinking establishments not classified as other.
With this training project, you will be able to work while learning Japanese cuisine at such a Japanese restaurant.

However, since it is stipulated that this training program does not exceed 5 years, after 5 years it is planned to return to your home country.
It is thought that this is made based on the same purpose as so-called "technical internship".

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries promises to grasp the actual condition and provide the necessary guidance and support with the obligation to deliver the foreigner who returned home when working in a business related to the spread of Japanese cuisine overseas .
Also, foreigners who have returned home after completing the training program are scheduled to inform the Japanese restaurant diplomacy promotion organization, and there are also roads that can receive support.

If you want to work in Japan again, no one has a visa as a cooker of Japanese cuisine, so you need to work other than a cooker.
When a foreigner himself graduates from a graduate school where he studies management, in fact it was in a position to manage a restaurant for more than three years in his home country, etc. When there are special circumstances, it is possible that a "management / management" visa will be granted.
Or, if you are graduating from a university, there is a possibility to get a job with a visa of "technology, humanities knowledge, international activities" to a company dealing with such as Japanese food restaurant chain.