Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Japan – below the poverty line

This is an actual example on how impossible it is to live on the salary of a dispatched ALT working at a Kitakyushu City Board of Education public school. Though they are full time teachers they only have 1000 yen a day to spend on food and nothing else. They just can’t survive on this low wage.
北九州市の市立中学校で働く派遣の語学指導助手の給料の実態。可処分収入は月3万円、それはすべて食費に使うと1日1000円ぐらい。フルタイムの先生なのに貧困層。現実です