My Racist Experience Teaching English in Japan

Seeking Japan residency, he says employers and students repeatedly rejected his English- teaching applications because he lacked a stereotypically English appearance. He worked low-paid Lawson and kitchen jobs, then quit after months over long hours, rude customers, heavy workload, and poor pay. A Tinder relationship brought rent-free housing for English lessons, then ended when she said she had learned enough and met Canadian Gareth.

A career aspiration gave way to precarious work, romantic dependence, resentment, and abrupt withdrawal.