kuri wrote:
> "John W." <worthj1970@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> > Besides, dreams should never die; otherwise what's the point of having
> > them?
>
> Getting less bored while you're sleeping ?
>
> > > Certainly a lot of people have problems in the world, but Native eikaiwa
> > > actors  (of any age) feeling discriminated in Japan, that's a joke.
> > >
> > Why is it a joke? Eikaiwa is a pretty crappy job, but many people take
> > it very seriously despite it being a joke. Nobody should be
> > discrimianted against; that's just common sense.
>
> Complaining about discrimination with Westerners as victims  is the joke.
> For 2 reasons : Primo, the eikaiwa industry
> takes any age, any IQ of gaigin.

Not universally true, but also not at all related to my initial
question which wasn't about whether age discrimination occurs, but
whether it's legal.

As others have pointed out, Westerners are not only employed as eikaiwa
teachers. And the issue of age discrimination extends to native
Japanese as well; job ads for Japanese also can have age restrictions.

> Secundo, the job description is based on
> discrimination as they hire people for their origin and color.
>
Surely you're not suggesting that it's illogically discriminatory for
an English conversation school to prefer to hire native English
speakers.

John W.