Apartheid in South Africa:
Apartheid was the
system of legalized racial segregation in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. It divided the population up
according to race. In the photo
above, from the Apartheid Museum, we can see separate entrances for whites and
non-whites.
Apartheid at the University
of Hyogo:
Japanese Western Faculty
In the document exhibited
we can see how the
University of Hyogo practices its version of apartheid. The Japanese teaching staff and the
non-Japanese teaching staff are separated in the chart above. It looks like a form of “separate
but
equal” except that the two sides are not equal. Of
the six full-time westerners working at the
university, four of them are in the bottom right box labeled “foreign
instructor” from which there is no promotion. The
other two westerners are associate professors, but they
were not hired by the University of Hyogo. They
were hired by Kobe University of Commerce and Hyogo
Nursing College, respectively, and were absorbed by the University of Hyogo
when those two colleges became part of the University of Hyogo. There are no westerners with the title
of “foreign professor.” The
University of Hyogo has not hired any westerner above the level of “foreign
lecturer” and has never promoted a westerner. By
contrast, almost all Japanese full-time teaching staff
are at the level of associate professor or professor. Please
note: the document shown was created by university
officials and was distributed at a faculty meeting by the dean of the School of
Environment and Humanities, Toru Fukushima.