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Like every other literate country, Japan has a problem in teachers' substandard pay. Writing in Keizai Shincho, one of Tokyo's academic journals, Economics Professor Hiroshi Sato of Hitotsubashi University explains something about the special woes of Japan's teachers, and a lot more about himself...
...days gone by," recalls clean-shaven Professor Sato, "a [Japanese] professor wore a fine mustache, carried a cane, and commuted directly from the geisha house to the classroom in a jinricksha . . . Now, after 31 years of teaching. I return home with a monthly salary of 36,150 yen [$100]. I give the envelope to my wife . . . Usually, this sort of conversation ensues...
...Sato: Is it true that your friend Mr. H. (managing director of a business firm) receives a bonus...
...Committee hung oil paintings in the heretofore severely plain corridors and party offices of the Diet building. The largest party (the Socialists) got the largest picture, Tea Maidens. The Communists (four members of the Diet) got the smallest, Summer, a lady with a pink parasol. Said Committee Chairman Kanjiro Sato: "At first we thought the women members would create a quieting influence. But we were mistaken...
...days the prayers and the cries came on schedule, then suddenly the door opened and out marched strapping Novice Eshun Sato and 53 colleagues. They told a bitter story. "We novices had to wait hand and foot on the oldtimers," said Sato. "To convey a message or request to a fifth-time priest, I had to speak to a priest who was taking the rites for the second time, who relayed the message on up by rank. I protested to Chief Priest Nakakita, and for this I was beaten up by the oldtimers [he showed scars on his arms], Nakakita...