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However, despite this quantitative expansion, these faculty remain peripheral. Though recent studies have identified various challenges faced by international faculty, they have focused on international faculty’s individual experiences and have lacked perspectives from the host institution. To more accurately understand the challenges facing international faculty, this study aims to uncover compatibility issues between these faculty and their host environment. Design/Approach/Methods: In this study, I adopted a qualitative case study approach targeting a local national university in Japan. Seven international and six Japanese faculty members were interviewed. Findings: The analysis revealed various issues underlying the problems faced by international faculty, including new challenges arising from recent national university reforms. The compatibility issues they experienced can be categorized into the following six areas: organizational goals, systems and practices for hiring and evaluating faculty, division of roles between international and Japanese faculty, organizational support for international faculty, organizational culture and atmosphere, and Japanese society’s overall system and values.  \nCorresponding author:  \nMasako Kotake, Institute for the Promotion of Education and Research, Shimane University, 1060 Nishikawatsu-cho, Matsue, Shimane 690-8504, Japan.  \n[Email: masakok@soc.shimane-u.ac.jp](Email: masakok@soc.shimane-u.ac.jp)  \nCreative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative  \nCommons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License ([https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page ([https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage](https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage)).  \nOriginality/Value: This study responds to a crucial academic need to understand the host institution’s perspective on international faculty recruitment by providing new evidence of the challenges facing international faculty and their host institution in a low-resource environment in the midst of reforms.  \nKeywords  \nCase study, compatibility, host environment, international faculty, Japan Date received: 1 June 2023; revised: 1 August 2023; accepted: 7 August 2023  \nIntroduction  \nThe presence of international faculty is becoming increasingly important in the global academic environment. Although there are no precise statistics on the number of international faculty members in universities worldwide, their numbers have grown markedly in recent years (Mihut et al., 2017) .1 Two factors explain this rise in international faculty. First, we often expect international faculty to serve as a spearhead of internationalization, that is, their experience and expertise are meant to provide new insights into research and teaching, and possibly promote changes in their university’s ethos (Altbach & Yudkevich, 2017a, 2017b) . 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