School's closure in Japan exposes tough times for foreign teachers

[Francis Hult]

The Christian Science Monitor

 

School's closure in Japan exposes tough times for foreign teachers

 

The collapse of Nova might not just be Japan's largest consumer story this year. Foreign embassies, Qantas Airlines, and local unions and media are rallying behind students and teachers, who Sunday night set up a "Nova Relief Fund" to help hundreds evicted on short notice from apartments supplied by Nova. "We just need to think about the 1,300 Australians who are suddenly finding themselves out on the street there in Japan," said Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer. 

 

 

Full story:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1030/p04s01-woap.html

 
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