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I agree with you, Tsuwabaki, that it would be smarter to hire career-minded teachers who were willing to live long term in Japan. Teaching experience and training were not required to be hired for JET, the largest government-sponsored program for putting ALTs into public school classrooms. Certainly there are career-minded teachers out there, but in some cases that's the opposite of what they were looking for.

I use the word "invite" because, at least JET, is a temporary position.