[/floatr]Kyodo via Japan Today: English school condemned for limiting teachers to blond hair, blue eyesAn English-language school in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, had publicly posted a recruitment poster limiting instructors to those with "blond hair, blue or green eyes," leading activists to file complaints, people involved said Sunday. The poster for recruiting instructors the school sends to kindergartens was posted at the Yamanashi International Center for six months until November, when the center removed it after receiving the complaints and apologizing for its "lack of consideration." "Linking appearance and qualifications of English educators is questionable. It encourages discrimination on appearance and race," according to the complaints filed with the center by the activists, including American-born Japanese citizen Debito Arudou...more...
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