Japan: Part-time University Teachers among Working Poor · Global Voices
Chris Salzberg

At A Prisoner in the Cave, id:eirene describes a documentary on Tokyo Television exploring the situation of working poor among part-time teachers in Japanese universities [ja]. The documentary introduces the lives of two PhD-holding part-time university teaching staff living on a salary of 100,000 yen/month [around 1000 USD], highlighting differences in social status between part-time and full-time teachers. The full movie is viewable in Japanese here [ja], and a research survey titled “The Voices and the Realities”, put out by the association of Part-Time Teachers, is available here (in Japanese and English). (Via mojix.org)