{"id":149,"date":"2007-01-03T15:12:17","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T06:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=149"},"modified":"2008-04-23T12:25:04","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T03:25:04","slug":"asia-pacific-university-blacklisted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Asia Pacific University Blacklisted"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Blog. Have just updated the Blacklist of Japanese Universities, a website which warns the public about limited employment opportunities in Japanese academia. Joining the 99 universities up there is the following entry:
\nhttps:\/\/www.debito.org\/blacklist.html#apu<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nNAME OF UNIVERSITY:<\/b> Asia Pacific University (a division of Ritsumeikan University, also blacklisted) (Private)
\nLOCATION:<\/b> 1-1 Jumonjibaru, Beppu City, Oita Prefecture, 874-8755
\nEMPLOYMENT ABUSE:<\/b> Contract employment with caps. And they will enforce them in court. Let’s quote the university: <\/p>\n

“In relation to the demand for a preliminary injunction in order to preserve the position outlined in the employment contracts of former full-time Japanese language lecturers<\/b> originally hired in April of 2002 and who had fulfilled their 4 year period of employment, the Oita District Court (presiding judge: KAMINO Taiichi) handed down its verdict on November 30th, unequivocally dismissing the suit launched by the former lecturers. <\/i><\/p>\n

The Court in its ruling confirmed that Ritsumeikan, in its efforts to improve language education at APU, was both reasonable and had cause in abolishing the positions within the lecturer system<\/b> in order to plan for the creation of a new lecturer organization. As to whether the decision to halt the employment of the lecturers was fair and just, the Court ruled that:<\/p>\n

1. There was no truth to the allegation<\/b> that Ritsumeikan, at a Japanese language workshop held in 1999, had indicated that it would endeavor to allow full-time Japanese language lecturers to extend their period of employment should they wish to do so.<\/b>
\n2. That it was possible to infer that expectations for a continuation of employment stemmed from the 1999 Japanese language workshop, yet there was no reason for such expectations.<\/b>
\n3. That the employment contracts in question (for full-time lecturers) outlined an employment period of 4 years<\/b> (the period of guaranteed employment), that the contracts provided a period of employment of 1 year<\/b>, and that although this touched upon Article 14 of the former labor standards law, it was appropriate in this case.
\n4. That in accordance with the completion of the period of employment, the decision to halt the employment of the former lecturers did not constitute abuse of the right to dismissal.<\/b><\/p>\n

The Court acknowledged that the response of Ritsumeikan was fair, and thus summarily rejected the former lecturers’ demand.”<\/p>\n

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\nSOURCE OF INFORMATION<\/b>: Gloating announcement from the university Vice President on the APU website, dated December 25, 2006, indicating that they had vanquished the “former full-time” employees in court. Merry Christmas to you, too. Original link here<\/a>. In case that disappears, downloadable webarchive here.
\nhttps:\/\/www.debito.org\/APUinjunction010307.webarchive<\/a><\/p>\n

ENDS\n<\/p>\n

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Have just updated the Blacklist of Japanese Universities, a website which warns the public about limited employment opportunities in Japanese academia. New entry is Ritsumeikan’s flagship Asia Pacific University in Beppu, Oita, Kyushu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,24,19,16,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-debitoorg-website-updates","category-education","category-labor-issues","category-lawsuits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}