“We’re supposed to have 10 minutes between classes, but get none. We’re not allowed to talk to students away from the classroom. We have to move around our building via the emergency exit stairwell,” one former English teacher tells Weekly Playboy. “The pay is 250,000 yen a month. At first I thought it wasn’t bad, but we don’t get a raise or a bonus or paid vacation. There’s a teacher turnover of about 90 percent a year.”
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