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‘No sex please, you’re teachers’
According to the language school chain’s instructor contract, foreign employees are forbidden to “participate in any interaction with the clients of the employer outside the place of employment.” In theory, insist Nova instructors, they are under threat of the sack for so much as a chance encounter with any of the company’s 450,000 students. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20040601zg.htm
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McEnglish for the masses
“The largest eikaiwa school has a staff turnover of 70 percent a year,” says Dennis Tesolat, vice-chair of the General Union, which represents hundreds of teachers in Japan. “They have guys whose job is it to go to the airports just to pick up new teachers. And that’s because the teachers have a grueling schedule…
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Revised law removes barrier to nationality
The revised Nationality Law cleared the Diet Friday but only after lawmakers at the last minute managed to have a clause inserted to prevent what they claimed would be a surge in bogus paternal recognition cases. The revised law cleared the Upper House with the nonbinding clause, which calls for applicants to submit pictures of…