WAKAYAMA – The Wakayama prefectural teachers’ union is demanding that foreign instructors who have passed a prefectural teachers’ license exam be emp
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.
Your view is more nuanced than the ol’ xenophobia card that was the other sole comment on this thread.
Xenophobia and Japan, name a more iconic combo.
