Curt Fischer wrote:
>
> These age restrictions are found in ads for all sorts of jobs, in both
> Japanese and English.  I would imagine therefore that such
> discrimination is perfectly legal.  It's hard to imagine that law
> enforcement agencies would repeatedly and systematically ignore law
> violations which any member of the public could discover just by buying
> a newspaper.
>
I'm not certain that even if such a practice is illegal law enforcement
agencies give a hoot. It is an odd practice, though; I've known many
people who have gone to Japan in their thirties/forties and found work
without much trouble, so perhaps in practice it's not all that common.

John W.