Work With Us

We are always looking for wonderful stories and experiences that others can share here on The Yokohama Life.

If you are a blogger that’s living in Japan, or has experience living in Japan, we’d love to be able to feature some of your work.

We accept guest post submissions that follow the topics we generally cover on this site, but they must follow the basic guidelines below.

Please read them carefully before submitting your post ideas.

1. You must be able to show examples of your previously written content.
2. Your post must be at least 1,500+ words in length.
3. The post should be of the highest quality that you can write.
4. There musn’t be any spelling or grammatical mistakes.
5. The content must be 100% original and you must be willing to give us complete rights to it.
6. Your post should have a creative headline to catch the attention of readers.
7. You must use larger headers to break down the article and make it more skimmable.
8. Please include an outro at the bottom of your article, and complete the author bio.
9. You may include 1-2 backlinks.
10. Please share the post on all of your social media accounts once it goes live. We’ll do the same!
11. You should respond to comments on your post. It’s a good opportunity for our readers to get to know you.
12. You must have a working website that is up-to-date.
13. Your draft must be shared through Google Docs for editing and collaborating before publishing the post.

Please include your blog’s URL, a general overview of the post you’d like to write, headlines you’re considering, along with the main points you’ll cover and possible keywords.

Please also send the date we can expect the draft.

Thank you!