[x] "The English Teaching Recruitment Programme was started in 1978 and initially was exclusively for British university graduates. This programme became known as the "British English Teachers Scheme.' American teaching assistants were later added under the "Mombusho English Fellows Program.' As more countries were included, the programmes were folded into a single entity, the JET Programme, in 1987. Its aims were revised to "increase mutual understanding between the people of Japan and the people of other nations, to promote internationalisation in Japan's local communities by helping to improve foreign language education, and to develop international exchange at the community level.'"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JET_Programme#History_and_aims_of_the_programme
[xi] Usually teachers in JET only stay for one, two, or years at a time.
[xii] "The Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme, now in its 24th year, is aimed at promoting grass-roots international exchange between Japan and other nations. The number of countries sending participants has risen over the years, as has the number of participants. In 2010, the Programme has welcomed 4,334 participants from 36 countries."
Private schools are now often encouraged to hire ALTs through private recruiting firms as is done in Taiwan.
http://www.jetprogramme.org/e/introduction/index.html
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