Meiji Internships

Meiji Internships acts as a gateway to foreign students and guides them on their journey through Asia into a new life. I want to be part of that vision and help to show young professionals the beauty of Japan and its culture.

For years I had been interested in foreign countries and culture, especially Japanese culture. This was why I decided to study Japanese in Paris. During my third year, I had the opportunity to do an exchange year at Fukuoka University. During that year I made friends, got used to life in Fukuoka  and I met my boyfriend who was a Japanese student. When I had to come back to my country, my life back in France didn’t suit me anymore, so I decided to go back to Japan… and here I am!

I always wanted to go abroad and Japan has been my top destination since my middle school years. I became immersed in Japanese culture when I came across anime in my early years in middle school. It was a whole different world. This helped me familiarize myself with the language, customs, and I really wanted to visit the country that inspired the panels in the anime. My curiosity to visit Japan increased more when I became a Business Management undergraduate student at university. In more than one course, we did case studies about the Japanese way of business, Japan’s economy, technology, companies and so much more. I then realised that I didn’t want to just visit Japan as a tourist. I wanted to experience the local way of life, as only then I would be able to experience the things I read in those articles.