As of this January, Okinawa Prefecture public schools were short 135 teachers, with 39 of the vacancies added to the list just since last October. (24fe23)


Splendor of Okinawa: Gazania rigens, roadside Uruma, 23fe23.


Public schools in Okinawa have a shortage of teachers. It was learned on 22 February that as of January, its teaching staff was understaffed by 135 teachers. At the Prefectural Assembly questioning on the same day, Board of Education Chief Mitsuru Hanmine responded to inquiries by Communist Party Representative Nobuko Tamaki. 


According to the chief’s breakdown of the understaffing problem, elementary schools were short 53 teachers, junior highs 42, high schools 24, special assistance schools 15, and junior high school nurses 1. The number lacking was up 39 from last October’s shortfall of 96. Education Chief Hamine stated, “The entire prefectural system is engaged in securing temporary part-time teaching staff.” 


The Prefectural Board of Education asserts that, as of this January, 135 teaching staff positions were unfilled. Among them, the number of home-room teachers in the total was not clarified. On the cause of the increase in lack of teaching staff, the chief responded, “Teachers newly taking leave for maternity, child care, and other reasons have come up as reasons,”


The Prefectural Board of Education may not be able to secure sufficient teaching staff for next year either. In that case, the Prefecture’s independent small class size system will be a point under review. The board acknowledged that there is a possibility of a return to the national standard class size of 40 students per class. As for securing teaching staff for unstaffed posts, the Prefectural Board explained, “We’re in the process of digging up part-timers.” On the matter of a possible return to the national standard class size, the chief responded, “We haven’t come to a formal decision.”


At the Prefectural Assembly Session, Governor Denny Tamaki was asked about increasing the fixed number of full-time teachers. He responded, “Because of reforms in how our teaching staff works, it’s broadly understood that a correct fixed number is absolutely essential. We would like to go along with the proposal to proceed aggressively in our teacher deployments, with Okinawa following the National Governor’s Conference and others.”


Original Japanese article: Ryukyu Shimpo, published Thursday 23 February 2023 at 07:10. Byline: Yo Kakazu.

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/212e44d7b9e722c8212d78fa12ddb29d00478904


Denny in the News: news about Governor Denny Tamaki.

Denny Tamaki is the governor of Okinawa Prefecture in Japan. Although Okinawa is important as an international tourist destination and a key element in strategic US Military Forces, its governor receives very little coverage in the Japanese press and almost none in the English language media. 

  1. This blog hopes to  translate one news article a day on the governor.  It is unsponsored and unauthorized. The translator simply hopes to improve his skills and perhaps give the governor an English speaking audience. 

  2. Any suggestion on improving the translation will be gratefully accepted. However, please leave political comments for another forum.

  3. Where they occur, words and phrases in Ryukyuan (the Okinawan language) are rendered in italics and translated in parentheses. Names  whose readings are uncertain are rendered as Name (=Kanji?) as in Nagayuki (=長行?). Any corrections in such instances would be gratefully appreciated.

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