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I realize this is probably either a stupid question or a long shot, but anyway ... the 2007 TESOL conference will be in Seattle at the end of March. Are there likely to be any Japanese (non-eikaiwa) employers participating in the Job Marketplace?

( http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/seccss.asp?CID=120&DID=1590 )

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Just in case anyone else is curious, the answer is yes. They are still adding employers, but currently they have an Oregon-based university in Tokyo, a corporate training group, a Christian university that advertises frequently, and a certain mutant-animal-mascot-using eikaiwa chain (also A Featured Employer ... OK, I assume this just means they paid some extra money to TESOL, eh?). Originally, I'd thought that advertising with TESOL and making the commitment to go to the conference would be a good sign for an employer, but I don't know.

There are also a couple of Taiwanese university and Korean public school positions (dispatch or headhunter, I guess), plus curriculum development with an English village in Korea, and positions at a well-known Korean sci/tech university.

Supposedly all of these places will be interviewing at TESOL in Seattle in March. Currently, I'm planning to go.