Japan? Work visa w/ sponsership or you spend $$ to a language school, culture, school, etc. Many Japanologists that have blogs about Japan do this e.g. enroll in a langauge school vs teaching english or getting a job job.
Australia and NZ is the opposite of the above and follows the USA example too. Just more expensive then Japan/Korea but the gold standard "seems" to be US/UK
The USA isn't the only one doing it.