Recently seven English teachers from a certain company have been incarcerated for possession of narcotics. This is bad news on many levels.
The first is that the reputation of the company for which I work (however famous or infamous it was prior to this incident) has been tarnished in the eyes of the public.
The fear and loathing of foreigners by xenophobic citizens will be increased. Open minded citizens may be converted by the xenophobes.
The extremist political groups who drive around town with loudspeakers blaring will have more to say about how Japan should push all the foreign devils into the sea.
The police will stop picking up cigarette butts and stop foreigners for walking/biking to work and search their bags. If they resist they'll get thrown in jail and forced to sign a false confession for good measure.
The lines at Customs will be longer than every because every foreigner will be searched thoroughly.
My high level students will probably have something to say about it, and I am dreading the thought of having to listen to repeated spiels of how drugs are bad, except for alcohol and smoking, and Japanese people never do drugs. Yeah right... Who imports that stuff in the first place? Certainly not the Yakuza!
* Rant to be continued *
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