Majoring or Minoring in Japanese (w/Education)

There are many Japanese who want to teach Japanese language in America just like GTS. If you want to teach at a college or a university as tenured faculty, a doctoral degree like Ph.D or Ed.D is almost required with a very few exceptions. How long and how much money are necessary for obtaining these terminal degree? 5, 6 years (at shortest) after college graduation? Rapidly increasing college tuition being at least $100,000 for 4 years, another $100,000 for graduate studies seems to be a real burden. If you are lucky, you may get scholarships, teaching assistantships, or research assistantships to decrease this burden but...... Master's degree holders can find a job at college-level but status is usually unstable and the salary is usually less than that of K-12 public school teachers in reality.
On the other hand, Master's degree holders are well evaluated in K-12 teaching environment both in socially and economically. Japanese native speakers coming from Japan are not very familiar with education philosophy and system in America and usually have no state endorsed teaching licensure. So those non-native speakers of Japanese who aquired decent Japanese language and social skills do have a great advantage to get a teaching jobs if there are openings. If you like to become a K-12 teacher rather than business person, I really encourage non-native speakers to become a K-12 Japanese language teacher. By now, finally we can have reliable network among teachers at all levels helping with each other and never letting anyone feel isolated in the field.
GTS originally wanted to become a high school Math teacher. So many high school classmates and teachers don't think it is unusual to have "GTS in the world" but no one believes that GTS is teaching "Japanese" in Ameirica since GTS's English grade had always been below average and the score of national exam (like SAT in the U.S.) of English was barely 60%!
Hey! Nonody can predict the life!! GTS is always dreaming someday GTS's former students positively surprises GTS in one way or another. That is the rewarding moment that 'teachers are longing for.'