The following is the first in a series of selections of unpublished letters about Community stories from the year just passed.
The forgotten plight of ALTs
Arudou Debito gives a fair assessment of the good, the bad and impeded progress regarding human rights issues in Japan in his most recent Just Be Cause column (¡±Battles over history, the media and the message scar 2015,¡± Jan. 3). One issue he could also have included is the continuing plight of the assistant language teacher (ALT).
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