[ChisaChi]

It's strange - these sites seem to have a bit of a hazing process, and if you survive then you become one of them and join in heckling the next lot of new people (and occasionally each other). I wouldn't take it too seriously.

I've heard of people being asked to justify their placement requests in interviews, so I'm trying to stick with places I can list some intelligent reasons for requesting.

I remember seeing a chart like this a while ago, handy! I've heard that Aussies seem to have a good chance of ending up in Hyogo, but I wonder if it's just because they hire so many ALTs in general. Do they have so many because it's quite a large prefecture?