A 23-year-old student from China who attends the prestigious University of Tokyo is now looking for a job in Japan.

But her quest to achieve the ¡°Japanese dream¡± of working at a major Japanese company, and earning roughly four times what she could make back home, has hit a snag: she feels Japanese firms are not ready to hire international students.

¡°It¡¯s hard to keep looking for a job (in Japan) when I cannot tell whether they would really hire international students like me,¡± she said.