 Reason why you should teach English in rural Japan, your presence can have a big impact. In areas that are tourist hotspots, it is likely that students have many opportunities to interact with people from different countries. This often isn't the case in rural areas. For this reason your presence as a foreign teacher, has the potential to make a big impact with your students and your community. In a rural area, you may be one of the only foreign people, your community will have the chance to spend an extended period of time with. This makes you a cultural ambassador as well as a language teacher, which is especially important going into the future. By 2020, Japan will implement new national English education requirements. These will require schools to begin formal English education from the fifth year of elementary school. Measures like these aim to increase Japan's ability to be active in an increasingly globalized society. Alongside such efforts there are many things, foreign teachers can add to English curriculums, especially in communities that seem to be far from the rest of the world. For example, Japanese textbooks mainly teach standard American English, and a teacher who uses any dialect other than this one, is in a unique position to introduce students to the diversity of the English language. Also your knowledge of conversational English is incredibly valuable, since this is something that can be difficult to teach through textbooks. Any language or cultural knowledge you bring with you to Japan can turn into a teachable moment. This will have an effect on your students, however small.