Can a non Japanese teacher teach "reliable" Japanese?

Question:

I wanted to join a Japanese course in Delhi but all the Japanese teachers are Indians. I somewhat backed off because all those courses are somewhat expensive too. Do you think it's OK to study Japanese that is taught by non Japanese teachers? (The schools are looking for native Japanese teachers but no one is interested to take up this job).

Answer:

When I was studying Japanese in college, most of my professors were not native Japanese. This is to be expected if you're not in Japan (I'm in America). There's no problem learning Japanese from a non-native speaker unless you're studying conversation/pronunciation. Otherwise, you can study grammar, culture, kanji, literature, etc. without any problems.
At the school I attended, the third and fourth year conversation classes were taught by native Japanese speakers. But some of the classes taught by non-natives included: third year reading/writing, newspaper reading, intro to modern fiction, modern literature, Japanese culture, intro to classical Japanese, contrastive analysis.
In short, learning from non-natives should not be a problem unless you're trying to learn advanced conversation.