Beats me why anyone would want to work for a Japanese company anyway, since the situations described in this article have been common knowledge for decades now. I did the contractor/English teacher thing in the deluded hope for a full-time, more rewarding position. But it will never happen (ESPECIALLY if you're an English teacher, which ranks somewhere below toilet cleaner on the Japanese social scale). Eventually I got tired of the full-time position offer which always seemed to get postponed another 3 months, quit, and got the hell out of there.