On a humid June morning in Tottori Prefecture in western Japan, hundreds of would-be teachers filed into exam halls to compete for a chance to educate Japan's next generation.By the end of the day, just 74 of 557 applicants would secure jobs in the prefecture's elementary schools, only 1 in 7.5 job seekers, the lowest success rate in the nation for the upcoming school year. In junior high schools, the ratio also topped the nation at 1 person employed in 11 hopefuls.However, Tottori is the outlier. According to the education ministry, the teacher recruitment exams held in fiscal 2023 for hir…READ FULL ARTICLE
