WAKAYAMA – The Wakayama prefectural teachers’ union is demanding that foreign instructors who have passed a prefectural teachers’ license exam be emp

  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I’ve lived in Wakayama, and even taught in the public school system there, but only as a temporary english teacher. Wakayama prefecture has so few foreigners to begin with that this rule can’t be affecting more than a handful of people.

    This rule probably got written a hundred years ago and forgotten about because it wasn’t really impacting anyone. Japan still has a lot of work to do on cleaning up racism, but It’s nice to see small progress steps like this happening.

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      1 year ago

      Your view is more nuanced than the ol’ xenophobia card that was the other sole comment on this thread.