Abstract
Our institute is a preparatory Japanese language education institution that accepts newly-arrived international students. However, our students are not allowed to advance to the undergraduate course automatically. Therefore, we need to provide our students with career guidance. In this paper, we report on the effectiveness and challenges of our career guidance, including the awareness raising of students in the "Writing," "Reading," and "Japanese Circumstances" classes, and the collaboration with other vocational schools and the career guidance office of our affiliated vocational school.