Unfortunately allot of westerners do not understand Japanese and how this country works. First of all, they really do not want you in their cockpits at all. They want to sit there and speak Japanese and hang out with thir own kind, and definately don`t speak english.
You are hired as a "gaijin" contract employees, only to fill the void....a machine operator that will be sent home once there is no more need. The economy now is in a really bad shape. Japan is running a unemployment in excess of 5%, the highest since after the war.
The fact that they are still interviewing means nothing, remember JAL trained 400 crews, spent millions of dollars to train them, just to have them fired and sent home loosing their investment.
Applying western common sense is meaningless here in Japan, because the old Japanese dudes, smoking sigarettes.....wearing those sweaty brown and grey suits, operate on a whole different level of common sense. They will snip your b.lls of in a heartbeat., light up a sigarette and feel no shame.
I suggest go down to your regular gaijn "waterholes" in Shinagawa, you know the safe zone...TGI or Outback where you can feel you are still in the states. And put your tinfoil hats on and hope for the best.
Cheers!....over some Bud Light.