Prior to the wide popularity of Japanese animation following the success of Pokemon, Dragon Ball Z, and other properties, Japan wasn't well known as a desirable location young people wanted to move to and was instead known mostly as a manufacturing center that produced cheap goods for consumption by western countries. The first ALT that came over on the JET programme were given all expense paid tickets business class and were paid well because not many people were very willing to up and move to the other side of the world away from friends and family in the pre-internet era.
But now Japan is considered a very desirable location and many people who love Japanese popular culture want to move to Japan. And the prevalence of internet streaming now allows them to do so and continue to enjoy anime subtitled in their native language, a luxury unknown to ALT of the past. Have these factors contributed to an increase in the number of people wanting to work as ALT in Japan and a generalized decrease in salary due to people willing to work for less since the expense of importing subtitled VHS releases from America is no longer necessary?
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