Blueprint Japan with Oğuzhan
I’m Oğuzhan, and this podcast is my open journal as I build a life and business in Japan. I was born in Switzerland, raised in a Turkish household, and I now run a creative studio in Tokyo.
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He Got a Drone License While Working Full-Time in Japan 🇯🇵 | Shakaijin Life | Career in Japan | Radovan Kostadinov PT. 2 (opens the original)
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What happens when student life in Japan ends and working life begins? In Part 2 of my conversation with Radovan Kostadinov, we pick up his story as he transitions from six years of student life in Hokkaido into becoming a shakaijin in Tokyo. Rade talks about navigating Japan’s 新卒採用 (shinsotsu saiyō) system, finding his first full-time job through OfferBox, and eventually joining ReENE ENERGY, a renewable energy company working across solar power and energy infrastructure. Less than six months in
He Never Took a Flight Before Japan | From North Macedonia to Japan 🇯🇵 | JLPT N1 | Drone License | Student Life | Renewable Energy | Radovan Kostadinov PT. 1 (opens the original)
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What does it take to build a life in Japan from zero? In this episode of BLUEPRINT JAPAN, Oğuzhan K. sits down with Rade, a researcher turned renewable energy professional who moved from North Macedonia to Japan in 2018 — despite never having taken a flight before. Rade shares his journey from discovering Japan through YouTube and anime as a child, to studying environmental microbiology at Hokkaido University, surviving culture shock, mastering Japanese, and building a career in Japan. In this e
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