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Originally Posted by Liongale
Remember also that a principal is not a teaching job, it is administrative- it takes a completely different mindset and training. Also especially in a place like Japan, a principal can be the face of the school- so on top of all new qualifications, the board that would get you in that position would want you to be that face. Would a non-Japanese be accepted by not just the board, but the parents of the students?
There are no easy answers to such a question, only harder questions.
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In a Japanese public school I think it would be very doubtful a foreigner would ever be a principal. The reason is even if a foreigner could work in a public school district (prefecture) for 20+ years, it is traditional in Japan to move teachers around every few years to different schools (this is common in Japan in many industries) so to get the recognition from the prefectural Ministry of Education to go from teacher to administrator to principal would be quite an accomplishment.