Applied online, had a fifteen minute phone interview followed by an online language test, with having to submit a short demo video and references, then followed by a Skype interview, which had some general questions about why you wanted to live and work in Japan, where you see yourself in 5 years, followed by a few weird ones such as what you think professional means, how would you react if you were late, after all of these questions they then tell you that they have to submit your application to one of their 5 companies for consideration, at no point in the process up to now was this at all evident that the person you are in contact with is not actually the person doing the hiring and that the 5 companies may not actually have any positions available after jumping through all of these hopes.