Japan’s Overworked Teachers: Long Hours, Heavy Workload Take Toll | CNA Correspondent | Full Episode
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- In Japan, a school teacher’s day begins at around 8am but often ends only after 8pm. Much of this time is occupied not by actual teaching, but a laundry list of tasks like administrative work, dealing with parents’ complaints and supervising club activities. The pressure that educators face is causing record numbers to suffer from mental illness. Many are leaving the industry, as their ever-growing workload cuts into their personal time. Some also report “power harassment” - a side effect of an unhealthy work environment.
As schools become increasingly short-staffed, those who are left are forced to take on heavier burdens. Meanwhile, application rates have dropped drastically as the younger generation shuns the profession. Schools are trying to woo and retain teachers, such as by reducing official work hours and offering sabbaticals. Authorities too acknowledge the need to address the problem and are taking steps to resolve the teacher shortage. But is it too little, too late?
00:00 Introduction & Opening Title
00:35 Falling teacher enrolment in a Japanese public school
02:46 Teachers work overtime after school ends
08:16 Teachers organise forums to support each other
10:50 Why teachers quit: staff shortage, harassment, lack of reward
15:54 Do private school educators face the same pressures?
19:44 Do young Japanese want to be a school teacher?
20:47 Schools, authorities take steps to attract and retain educators
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It’s not just Japan. Every hardworking teacher WORLDWIDE is overworked and not given the credit they rightfully deserve!
very true too much paperwork and overtime....weekends doing work online and grades online after work....too little pay for such a high stress and anxiety riddled job.
Every time more money is allocated for the teachers, the school board and unions figure out how to line their pockets instead of paying the teachers more.
I think this is a world wide problem.
So true, much like most of our problems, it's a human issue first
Not sure about worldwide, but definitely an issue in the US as well
You made the false assumption that all teacher work the same and get paid thebsame. In reality it's not even close
Indeed it is.
Truth
I’ve been watching videos about the US having the same problem, it really shows this is a worldwide problem 😔 teachers deserve so much better
very true indeed
japan in general needs to change attitudes towards work. working hours must be very strict. 8 hours max with penalties to the company and worker for staying every extra hour.
Overwork, power hara, low pay. Doesn't sound much different from working in other Japanese companies. However, being a teacher, and therefore responsible for children, is a lot more demanding on people. I hope the Japanese government rectifies the situation soon.
in no other job do you spend all your time at home after work grading countless papers, completing Reading Academies 60 hrs of it on your own time watching videos and testing out to get a certificate to complete for administration, stay for tutorials till 6:30pm, go on saturdays for UIL, volunteer after the workday at a local restaurant to gather funds for (say Cheerleaders team to go to...), keep going to trainings mandated by administraton and school board all these trainings continue after a full day of work, being in the classroom with 25 kids is highly exhausting and stressful enough, but then after a full day of work continue prepping for the next teaching day, pluss input grades online and grade papers and answer parent messages.....it is a horrible 24 hour job... for the pay.... cannot wait to get out!!
I teach in a Japanese university. My wife used to be a junior-high school teacher. It's brutal: the system overworks teachers, leaving many of the worst while burning out the brightest stars. EVERYTHING is extra work. My friend's wife, who is a high school teacher, has to work (unpaid) overtime every time there are exams -as if nobody could see it coming. Add to this that class sizes are too big even though the number of students have been dropping. That said, many elementary school teachers, like the ones in the video, are extremely motivated, well-respected, and at the top of their game.
Yeah, elementary teacher got the best, because the kid is still a kid, most of them respect their teacher. And they still cute, so it kinda refreshing
When in junior and high school, you know yourself, most kid become prick and stop respecting elder, make teacher stress at work
No need to answer: why is it brutal? Teachers should not be treated like 24-hour soldiers. They are paid for a certain amount of hours and are expected to sacrifice many more beyond those hours. That is slavery in no other term. When the bell rings the school day is not over for the students as well. They have homework and extracurricular activities that occupy most of their time. The parents are also slaves to the system, they spend less time with their children….😢
Agreed. I worked in Japan as an ALT for 15 years as both an elementary and junior high school English teacher. In my final 3 or 4 years, I noticed that Japanese high school English teachers were being sent to elementary schools to help with English lessons. While I know that this was a way to reduce the costs of hiring ALTs, these teachers said the same as you have said. They really enjoyed the atmosphere and less hectic, demanding schedule compared to the junior high school schedule. God bless.
Is this the reason why Japan is hiring foreign teachers? I think over-worked teachers is a pandemic, it is the same thing here in Thailand.
Yes but most leave after a year or so because of similar issues in addition they have difficulty fitting into the culture and are harassed and bullied.
I mean its pretty much the same for most Jobs in Japan .... I am in Japan with a Student Visa learning Japanese as my dream is to live in Japan but even after my working holiday I wasn't sure anymore if I want to work in Japan and now I am kinda sure I at least don't want to work for a Japanese company ..... if I can't find an international company that offers me a European contract I will probably go back home after the two years even if I love Japan .... with so much work for hardly any money and almost no days off it would make much more sense just visiting Japan for 1-2 Month every Year instead of living there.
Also in my Opinion the School system in Japan isn't very good especially seeing how they teach Japanese I really start to understand why almost noone speaks any proper english here.
The system has its problems just as anywhere else. They just never want to expose their shortcomings. One major example is the number of undetected mentally ill students who never get the proper help so that they can learn better. They’d rather have the world view them as wholesome and perfect rather than show their reality.
@@LMLification so true. They are more concerned about saving face.
Go home. You will not be happy here in the long term.
Japan is better to visit than to live
Please don’t work here! Just visit. If your company doesn’t transfer you then don’t do it! Many get harassed and overworked here for low pay that’s why younger generation more and more try to make money to leave
It is the same here in the U.K. Now young graduates usually only teach for about 5 years and then leave the profession.
it is too exhausting for the low pay...its a 24 hr never ending job
Difference is they may be leaving because the students are shits. Academic results are crap, parents are violent whiners and teachers cannot discipline kids. :ow IQ population vs high IQ population. You can thank mass immigration for that one. Japanese kids are generally well behaved, parents can be shits though.Results best in the world academically for stem subjects.
In memory of my JH English, Judo and homeroom teacher, Shikanai Sensei. He died in 2015 from a health problem im his late 40's.
He studied in the US during his youth to improve his English so he could be a competent English teacher in Sapporo.
He's already at school before 8AM. He gave attention and taught so well to everyone especially to students like me who's grades were overall falling behind. All student's homeworks had detailed remarks, handwritten, on what to improve. He is also supporting his graduating students on different paths after highschool. He helped me get into a very good senior high school through just an interview and no need to take an entry exam because he found a way for cases like mine. He never gave up on "troublesome" students and used humor to reach them.
He eats lunch everyday with his class to oversea that everyone is tidy, etc. I don't even remember him excusing himself in the middle of class to go to the bathroom for 3 years.
He is also a Judo club teacher. They practice almost every afternoon until 5pm or even longer during competitions. He even works on weekends.
I feel for his family whom he left his wife and 2 young boys, working hard for other children. He is always remembered by his students. We miss him.
our own overworked SG teachers need help too!
Thank you CNA Insider for doing these videos. Everyone should know about them! I feel horrible for the Japan teachers, hopefully it could be fixed soon with more teachers and that they won’t have to get overworked anymore. They’re literal superheroes in school but the students aren’t aware of that just yet. Don’t stop making them! ❤
How about focusing on Singapore's overworked teachers? This will yield more results, considering Singapore's kiasu and kiasi parents and highly competitive poison society.
I believe it will be censored.
This is channel news Asia.
It doesn't have to report just about Singapore condition
Yep, you're a Singaporean
think of it as a case study or a cautionary tale
You know people can do more than 1 thing at a time right? Maybe use your second brain cell and leave smarter comment.
11h a day? That one extreme work load you have there.
Tbh, they should learn like my teacher, 5pm bell rings, ADIOS. The first person to disappear from sight even though everyone is facing him. What a legend.
Maybe your teachers actually has to bring papers home to mark and schdule their class for the next few months, book rooms and deal with consent forms or phone calls. My teachers even mark papers on weekends for chemistry
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Maybe this is why the Japanese don't have children anymore.
@@joash_c.5693i use to run a restaurant, now im a teacher. Most teachers have no idea what hard work is.
@@jumboshrimps4498 I'm a firefighter now a teacher, most retaurant owners have no idea what hardwork is.
If the government know that their citizens is overwork, why dont they interfere 😢😢😢.
because its just a "Japanese culture". That is why Japan has been stagnant for the past decade.
I teach at university in Japan as an English teacher. My girlfriend, who is Japanese, is a high school teacher. She has to work way harder than me. She works almost every weekend. They have these silly rules, like every club must have a teacher on staff, so if the baseball team or orchestra has a professional to coach, a teacher has to be there to be on hand. She works on average six days a week, and 12 hours a day
Japanese teachers are not only tired, but also bullied by students, especially female teachers are bullied by a group of male students, which I have seen in many Japanese movies
I don't think your joke is funny, nor appropriate for this video
Grow up boy
The society to this day still sees women as not worthy of the same level of respect as men.
You mean those movie where the female teacher says "yamete kudasai"?😂
Teaching in Japan is equivalent to a nightmare (most jobs here do though), especially if you teach at those scam cram schools and English schools. Teachers face low pay, excessive work load, long unpaid work hours, unruly students, lazy parents and incompetent management. Teachers are responsible for shaping the future generations and get treated like garbage almost everywhere.
I thought there are no more kids!! 😕 I leave school at 3 15...no extras. Retired after 32 years.
Boomers with higher purchasing power in the past will never understand this generation struggle that working harder wont get the same leverage as back then.
They can feed a family with a single income and buy a house with a firm handshake
I really enjoyed this, thanks for sharing!
Governments always say the education is important to them. Well, put your money where your mouth is.
Teachers were highly respected when we were kids. They were not only teachers in school but also outside the school. The respect people give if they know someone a teacher was very noticeable. Few years ago I worked in school and I witnessed so much disrespect towards the teachers. No wonder.
It is a worldwide problem, and it is not as great of a system as they try to portray. Lots of bad behaving and low performing students, enabling parents, disparities, bullying, passive approaches and other hidden problems. Every country has its problems, whether exposed to the rest of the world or not. Lots of teachers are bowing out.
The details may be slightly different here and there, but it's the same in Australia.
In my experience knowing both sides, the Singapore teachers are more overworked, but the Japanese teachers have more responsibilities…
It's the same here. I hope the leaders do something to help the teaching industry before the breaking point!
That administrator talking about teachers “helping” other teachers sounds like dumping work on those that seem capable or don’t set boundaries.
yeah,and it should start from lessening kid’s homework
i don’t see productivity in giving a child lots of homework especially during summer break,and other school holidays
there’s learning in playing,kids are already burnt out,teachers as well checking homework endlessly
The parents make it worse by signing their children up for so many different after-school lessons that also have homework. There are similar learning centers in my country, but it is an even bigger industry here in Japan. Korea, too.
I am glad that teachers have the courage to resign.
yes, for their mental sanity and their health.
The pandemic had put much stress on teachers, who had to learn to adapt and overcome. My military career helped me cope with stress and life challenges. There have been more student misbehaviors since coming back in person from the pandemic. On a positive note, technology has lessened the workload regarding classroom preparation and grading.
People here saying it is worldwide have no idea about the Japanese system. I worked in Japanese schools, and know many Japanese teachers personally. Their usual day is over 14 hours, not allowed to take all holidays, weekends also must work, senior teachers force younger ones to do their work, parents have to be liased with ,teachers often have to visit students at home in their own time, they are forced to comply with draconian school rules and are often placed in schools with low pay grades and troublesome students. Yet Japan consistantly rates in the top %1 for student results and abilities. Where do these other people 's nations place in academic results?
Venezuelan teachers: "Hold our beers - in fact, you may as well buy us one, since we can't even afford it"
It's lovely to see how good the Japanese students are at speaking English :)
China 🇨🇳 is copying/pasting Japan's past, before the WW2, including its mistakes.
- China forgot how that ended up.
Seems like CIA didn't stopped making bots even after getting reported multiple times. By the way, ask your papa 💩 Joe about the selling plastic fruits in Costco and Walmarts and also ask him did he saw the viral video about a man showing that now he needs to spend 4 times more money for a week's grocery compared to 3/4 years before??
Teacher shortages are happening all over the world. Teacher expectations have been amping up continually for the past several decades. This has been caused by, more government regulations, testing, and expectations, teachers having to teach things that used to be taught at home, the fact that more children are in either single parent homes or homes where both parents work and more expectations for students clubs and activities. Parents have more contact in their children's lives than ever before. It is very easy for them to type out an e-mail and then expect an answer within a couple of hours. Just answering and dealing with e-mails takes a staggering number of hours every year. Technology and computers were supposed to have saved us time. On the contrary it seems like it just amped up expectations and there is even more work load. Now the vast majority of teachers simple take the work home and do it there. Just because it is being done at home however does not mean it is not overtime. Students see the number of hours their teachers are putting in and how little they get paid for degree/amount of hours and they are starting to shy away from the job in record numbers. Here in the US several states had more retirements than they had education graduates from their teacher programs. Many of those graduates never actually try to get jobs as teachers. That last semester where they are student-teachers gives them a much more realistic look at the profession and opt out before they ever begin. Of those that begin, almost half have left the profession within five years here in the US. This is a growing issue in many countries.
Americans are special... so the students are even more special than most.
School is a company and teachers are the laborers.
Back like a decade ago my class size was about 45 ,my class teacher knew each and everyone personally in the class and remembered everyones name after the first week itself. Most kids would accidentally call her mom (instead of mam) and this happened several times in the 3 years she was with us before our graduation.
Now i recently visited my nephew's school for a ptm the teacher didn't even know his name properly....she literally asked if his name starts with an N right and followed up bya fake apology saying she has so many students she sometimes forget whos who......and gave the most generic feedback ever to everyone in class. It felt like she didn't care to that extent and would often try to discipline kids twice before giving up and letting them have their way
Your nephew's teacher, is it a homeroom tutor or just a subject teacher?
Sad that it has come to this in such a great country, hope they can resolve this Wise & carefully
where are the unions? japanese workers never protest or go on strike unlike in SKorea
WTH hell, they working their teachers to death.
oh my goodness lol what cute lil kids.
The excitement on that one kid raising his hand
I'm Japanese, my kids middle school homeroom teacher go home at 5pm, go camping with his families in the weekends, and generally a very happy go lucky person. I know this, because my kids always talk about their homeroom teacher.
Japanese system is to work everyone hard, doing multiple jobs, overtime, with low pay. Its the gamman military-like attitude.
it's also happening in Malaysia honestly teachers are being way overworked under paid and not appreciated I left my teaching job 2 years ago after dedicating my whole 20s into a bachelor's and master's degree in education
Some of the Japanese kids spoke with an accent. Did they live overseas or attend an international school?
Obviously they're students in the private school covered in the video. Maybe they used to live overseas or has an outstanding English teacher
Teachers in Japan get overtime pay and don't have to give part of their pay to the school. Their so lucky! Of course the trade of is they have to support all subjects.
I'm Korean and i was really shocked and surprising that japanese high school students used their own's laptop during class, and seceond is almost students have similar looks among the Korean and Japanese students. 🤤😍❤️
I work in Japan. It depends on the school. Some private schools assign students an iPad or laptop for the year.
I worked as an AET in a Japanese middle school back in my 20s and those people are overworked. I know everyone in Japan is, but dealingg with children makes the situation that mu h worse.
That is why nobody wants to be a teacher. It´s lot´s of work for a small payment and even smaller recognisement.
Problem with traditional schooling.. they still think the more the children know, the better it is for them.. and piling them all in who is the best performing students and graded for it- for what?? At a young age? This grading systems in traditional schooling could never be adapted in real life. I had so many classmates from elementary to university who were on the top every year, now that I am 35 yo, non of them could be heard about or doing “very” well in life.. this just only adds up in the stress of the teachers when you have to constantly tally who are the smartest ones etc..
Teach the kids the curriculums that they can just really use in real life.. knowing about algebra, trigonometry, and whatever nonsense that we will never use in our everyday life as we age are all garbage..
Teach the kids the basics and skills that can and will help them when they are outside of the schools..
We are homeschooling our 3 boys and we have cut down the non essential subjects, enrolled them to. Skills that they can use outside, cooking, drawings, new languages, and we have more to come..
this method will be helpful and more enjoyable for the teachers.
Given their low birth rates soon they’ll have the opposite problem not enough kids to teach. Then the problem corrects itself.
Oh wow, it’s a slippery slope to lower the requirements in order to compensate the lack of ppl who want to become teachers. That already has happened in so many countries, where the salaries are too low or workload is too high (or both) for teachers. In such circumstances, whoever is inadequate for any other job goes to teaching, and that guarantees that the next generation of teachers will be mainly people with anger issues or with no talent for teaching at all. They should rather lower the workload, what are they even doing??
People in the comment saying this is a WORLDWIDE problem... Lol don't make me laugh. I was a teacher for 12 years in America and in international schools in Asia. The truth is the job is EASY. You get lots of free time. If you're teaching the same classes/grade you get cadence that allows you to coast because each year you're teaching more or less the same thing, so if you aren't an idiot you have a majority of your lessons already planned and in between classes you can chill. It's very common to only work 3-4 hours per day as a teacher because your students are with other teachers. Additionally, you get LOADS of vacation time. Winter break, spring break, summer break, etc. What's being represented here in this video is unique to countries like Korea/Japan so you can't at all say this is a WORLDWIDE problem. I had so much free time during teaching that I was able to use my free time to self-study and eventually transition to a much higher paying job as a software security engineer. The truth of the matter is western teachers can't hold a candle to the work ethic and expectations of working in an asian school. Schools teachers in America are all entitled babies that are more concerned with confusing children about gender and race and then complain to the world how difficult their life is. The teachers and ex-teachers that aren't entitled brats know the truth.
I think it's great that students serve food and clean, but it seems to me that other employees can do those tasks. Having a separate science teacher would give the homeroom teacher time to tend to other duties. Perhaps grandparents could be hired to work part time to save teacher time. Tapping on their wisdom and skills could allow teachers more time for lesson preparation at school. Considering how low the birth rates are, the schools should be better started and funded than in the past. At least Japanese teachers don't face the level of delinquency and parental substance abuse seen in the West.
That's true, but they face the pressure of parents
training on off days... on top of many OTs...
woah, i wonder why many quiting and not joining? 🤔
I teach from 6am to 5pm. Then still has tutorials until 9pm. We even have rehearsals at saturdays. No overtime pay at all 💀 i don't have vacation because i need to train the during summer time. RIP
theres a population declinbe in Japan. shortage when theres no children?
In Malaysia, One of the main attraction to become a teacher is A LOT OF HOLIDAYS 😂.
Other has the same thing right? Like summer holiday...so teacher will take holiday too... Right?
Mean while in Singapore, pap is getting teachers to pay for parking.
Isn't everyone in Japan overworked? I though the 5 to 9 was normal in Japan.
Not everyone is
If you have a regular job 🤣
My algorithm will help education in Japan and around the world.
New methods will be developed for learning more efficiently.
They identified the problem BUT instead of reducing the amount of hours, they look for other people to share duties.
Japanese people think that productivity is related to pressure and quantity of hours, but studies shows a different way.
Anyway, nothing's going to change...
Facts. What takes a 12-hour day here could be streamlined down to a regular 8-hour day.
Teachers make annually 6-7 million in Tokyo,
(adjusting to living expense) it's like making 80-90K in New York...
National average might be much lower though...
Not to mention the poor yen exchange rate here and the increasing cost of living.
This what happens when workers are not compensated well and everyone thinks they can only get rich by being a business man/woman.
I don’t think monetary compensation is a solution. We need to disconnect from
Work and enjoy living happily while young and filled with vitality.
@@claudemontes Yes it is. What do you think people use to pay for goods and services? And why do people work in the first place? You think you will be happy without food? You're funny.
Please make about teacher in Malaysia !!!!!
think about it, you learn so hard, what you are going to do, no job because foreigner stole it from you, later in life you work as low waged, and no family because Japan tradition,
look at the entertainment industry, they pay more than you work at an office with tricky rule and require not much education either, all of the skills you have to focus on things that helping you rather than general knowledge
Waaao lol
Who the hell wanna be teacher then? Lol Should hire more admin so that teacher can focus on class more .
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hi cna
😂my Japanese girl friend is ex teacher 😂
I have around 12 years of experience as a teacher in my country in south east asia.
I really want to work as a teacher in Japan but many people told me it's impossible for gaijin to be accepted as a teacher in Japan unless: I'm a westerner/English native or I was graduated from Japan university.
Is it true?
Sexpat
You might not have as many options as the aforementioned people, but there are people here who are outside of those demographics who are working as teachers here. If you know Japanese and have teaching experience and credentials, then that definitely helps you secure a worthwhile position.
@@LMLification wrong
@@arachnid4910 Not for the past 9 years I have been here…
What’s your motivation to work in Japan by the way?
Government and ministry always lied in all countries and always said they are very hardworking. All the teachers will say they work overtime and stress,.... 95% when I ring up the school, most of the teachers disappeared from school as soon as the students leave. When you email or messaged in the app the teachers used to communicate with parents, half never reply. Some friend's parents are teachers and they said their parents are too free and when their turn for routine to come back to school, they sleep in the schools. Teachers have turns of routine like come half hour earlier, going back when all students finished their extra curriculum stay back, during school holidays when students come back for extra curriculum,.... The facts, teachers have same holidays as students and only need come back 2-3 days. They also usually goes back home when school bell time on most of the days. Schools do attach clerks to teachers for administrative jobs. Lots of teachers are also bullies, creates nick names or shame students or tension creator while there are also many parents who will complaint the teachers if they dont do right things. The teachers also have to face the school leaders dictatorships. However teachers jobs are far too better compared to private sectors which are battle grounds. Its the same of crap leaders of schools who creates bad environment of schools as to those the private companies leaders.
Just because the teachers are not answering you, doesn’t mean they aren’t working. For a lot of teachers, they are doing their lesson plans and grading at home, to avoid interruptions. While I personally see far less tolerance for bully-teachers compared to 30 years ago, if you do see this, you should document it and report it. It isn’t tolerated in most countries anymore.
@@AprilFriday-de6vm In this new world era, everything changed. All teachers like you too will say work very hard, nobody will tell others that they are lazy. Fact is fact, when at home, most of us will not work, the most 30% output. I dont want to hallucinate but teachers working at home to avoid interruptions are lousy theory. Didnt reply school and ministry given email means only 1 answer, not interested in work. Most schools dont let any phones during school hours so its hard to get evidence. Furthermore the school will try their best to cover up and many students are afraid to loose their status, especially top schools.
The thing is that Teacher are replaceable by video
singapore and japan dont come close to shanghai!!!!
Teachers, you are NOT getting a raise. Our elections are fair and voters said no. In 2020, Prop 15 failed in Calif. That was a big tax on commercial property for education.
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High school students in s'pore are top in maths, science, reading and creative thinking. It's so obvious that PAP is the only competent and effective party in s'pore. ❤❤
You could be a good PR😂😂😂
Why are you here?
Are you a teacher?
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The solutions seem to be really just more work for the teachers. More roles to do, more preparation for outside sessions.
It should really be less classes and less work hours, plus additional support that doesnt rely on teachers adding on more roles. Give them less work, and support them on how to handle the lesser work load and passing on the nonteaching roles to others. They shouldnt be the ones helping each other. THAT'S MORE WORK.
This is definitely not just a problem in Japan. It was interesting to see how the culture towards works plays into it. Along with the Japanese cultural attitudes towards hierarchy etc. also, as a side note, teaching is still a predominantly female profession … and then govts wonder why birth rates are low? 🫠