The first English teacher in Japan
Monday, January 7th, 2008… was called Ranald MacDonald (no relation to the most famous American clown in Japan*, I believe) and was also the first English teacher to discover that Japan can be both an adventure and safe and pleasant, being at least as useful to the Japanese for sending positive reports back home as he was for telling them about the rest of the world and “internationalizing” them. Sounds just like the average JET teaching assistant.
Other interesting similarities and differences include: