One reader wrote to Lifelines with a question regarding pensions:
I'm a part-time English university instructor, now working at two Tokyo universities. In nine years, I will be 70 and, as it stands today, should anticipate being forced to retire.
I will still have to survive, so I anticipate needing to find work at lesser universities without age restrictions, as other instructors have done before me.
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