Dear minister of education Tatsuo Kawabata,
Regardless of education and experience, once an English instructor starts work at certain universities in Japan, they are placed at the bottom of the list for promotion or advancement — a practice which ignores the internationally recognized principle of being able to transfer experience from job to job as long as one remains in the same profession. Surely, this can't be right.
In short, this means that a highly educated instructor with better qualifications and more experience than another instructor may have fewer advancement opportunities and teach less classes — and consequently be paid less — than a more junior instructor.