Here’s the May 2013 issue of AJET Connect Magazine:
(Download PDF) http://ajetnet.s3.amazonaws.com/connect/2013_May_Connect.pdf
FYI, Editor Jim Kemp and his team at AJET Connect Magazine have been putting together some really good content along with appealing layout. In this issue, I particularly recommend Amelia Hagen’s “29 Things I’ve Learned While Travelling On JET.” But there are also articles on surfing in Japan, the evolution of the kyushoku, and the Tokyo Yamathon among other strong writing about “local” Japan.
Via Actus Consulting. Posted by Kim ‘Kay’ Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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***Note: If you apply, please make sure to indicate that you learned of the listing from JETwit.***
Position: Boy’s Dormitory Supervisor
Posted by: Actus Consulting.
Type: Full-time
Location: NY
Salary: Salary commensurate with education and experience
Start Date: N/A
Preferred Experience and Skills:
Must have bachelor’s degree. Must reside on campus. Several years of experience at educational institutions preferred.
Education background is a plus.
Compensation:
Health Insurance 403B Pension Plan benefits
Please contact Chiaki Kurokawa if you have any questions. If you’d like to apply for this position, please email your resume in WORD FORMAT as an attachment to ckurokawa@actus-usa.com. When you apply, make sure you’ll include the below information in the body of email:
・Current（or Last, if you are not currently employed）salary（the base amount and last years bonus amount respectively）
・Reason for change（or reason for leaving the last employment if you are currently unemployed）
・Desired salary for this position
Thanks to JETAANY’s Kat Barnas for sharing to this listing. Posted by Kim ‘Kay’ Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: Program Manger
Posted by: Dartmouth College
Type: Full-time
Location: Hanover, NH
Salary: N/A
Start Date: N/A
Overview
The Center for Global Business and Government is dedicated to programs that prepare leaders to better understand, shape, and succeed in the dynamic interactions between business and government in today’s global economy. In the wake of the World Financial Crisis, governments are now a factor in most strategic global business decisions, and the leaders of global businesses and national governments struggle to understand each other’s goals, constraints, and methods. The programs at the center are aimed at addressing this knowledge gap.
Position Purpose
To help grow the programs of the Center for Global Business & Government as a member of an energetic and entrepreneurial team. To execute center programs efficiently, effectively, and accurately. To develop relationships with student groups interested in the Center’s mission. To contribute ideas for improving and augmenting the operations and content of the Center’s student-facing programs. Read More
Via the Hunter College MA TESOL listserve. Posted by Kim ‘Kay’ Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: Full-Time Esl/English Teacher
Posted by: Keio Academy
Type: Full-time
Location: NY
Salary: Commensurate with education and experience
Start Date: N/A
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university is required. Valid middle and/or high school teaching certificate and/or MA in English and TESOL required. Strong organizational, communication and interpersonal skills is desired.
Compensation:
Salary. Health Insurance, 403B Pension Plan benefits
The new teacher will be teaching 12th grade English Literature (Intermediate level) and 11th Language Arts and very low level ESL in the 10th grade
To apply or ask questions: Email ybendlin@keio.edu or go to http://www.keio.edu/english/
Posted by Kim ‘Kay’ Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Application for New Zealand residents for the 2014 Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarships for Study in Japan!
Duties And Responsibilities:
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of the Government of Japan offers scholarships to foreign students who wish to study at Japanese universities.
To date, some 79,000 students from approximately 160 countries and regions around the world have studied in Japan under the Japanese Government MEXT Scholarship program established in 1954. As of May 1, 2009, there were 10,168 foreign students studying in Japan as Japanese government scholarship students.
***Warning: In some countries there are fradulent organisations that offer to help students apply for these Japanese Government scholarships in return for a deposit. The only ways to apply for a Japanese Government scholarships are through the Embassy of Japan in your home country, or through a participating Japanese university. You will not be asked to pay a deposit to apply for the scholarships.*** Read More
Via JETAA Hawaii linkedin group by JET alum Beau Miller. Posted by Kim ‘Kay’ Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: Operations Supervisor
Posted by: Shirokiya Ala Moana
Type: Full-time
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
Salary: N/A
Start Date: N/A
Duties And Responsibilities:
• Demonstrate leadership skills to meet the company’s objective
• Inventory and cost control and management
• Demonstrate the ability to handle customer complaints and employee management
• Communicate effectively with the upper management about day to day operations and monthly reporting
• Ability to make decisions about pricing and placing orders with different kinds of vendors locally and
internationally
• Management of employee schedule
• Overall-in-charge of the retail area of the store (2nd floor) except for the leased areas Read More
Tom Baker (Chiba, 1989-91) has begun a 47-part weekly series of posts on his Tokyo Tom Baker blog, in which he will sample and comment on a curry from a different prefecture each week. Here’s his first installment, about Kangawa Prefecture:
Yokosuka, in Kanagawa Prefecture, is the perfect spot for a naval base. It occupies most of the Miura Peninsula, which forms a natural breakwater protecting the mouth of Tokyo Bay. The establishment of an Imperial Japanese Navy base there in the late 19th century gave Yokosuka an unexpected connection to the nation’s culinary history.
In its early days, the navy was plagued by the painful and often fatal disease beriberi. Food historian Katarzyna J. Cwiertka writes in her excellent book “Modern Japanese Cuisine” that 12 percent of all Japanese sailors were found to be suffering from the condition in 1883. A high-ranking navy doctor named Kanehiro Takagi was aware that beriberi was rare in Western navies, whose sailors more often ate meat. He theorized that a high-protein diet might improve sailors’ health. Efforts were begun to Westernize navy meals by including more meat, and curry was one of the dishes used for that purpose. It became a staple of Japanese navy cooking.
WIT Life is a periodic series written by professional Writer/Interpreter/Translator Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03). She starts her day by watching Fujisankei’s newscast in Japanese, and here she shares some of the interesting tidbits and trends together with her own observations.
Last night I saw a concert at Carnegie Hall given by the Hearts and Eyes Choir ( ゆきわりそう合唱団 or Yukiwariso gasshoudan). This choir was established in 1990 by founder Hiroyo Ubayama, who was on hand to offer her greetings to the audience. It is composed of members with physical and mental disabilities, and the origin of its name is because the choir “shares its dreams and expresses its joy with its hearts and eyes.” They travel the world performing with the motto “we will all be sisters and brothers.” This was their second time on stage at Carnegie Hall, following their debut performance back in 2000.
They were joined by local choral groups as well as featured singers, and the pieces chosen were Rhapsody for Orchestra, Four Seasons of Old Home and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D Minor. Happy Doll founder Nozomi Terao was the MC, and during intermission collections Read More
Via the JET Programme & Alumni linkedin group. Posted by Kim ‘Kay’ Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: Part Time Program Coordinator and A part-time International Marketing Coordinator
Posted by: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Type:
Location: Tokyo, JP
Salary: 210,000¥/ month (2,000¥/ hour, plus overtime and bonus)
Start Date: ASAP
Outline
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), a national university in Tokyo, is seeking a part-time native or native level coordinator for international affairs, starting ASAP. The applicant should be a native or native-like speaker of English, who is highly qualified in assisting the international activities at TUAT. Read More
The below is a request from Eliot Honda (Ehime-ken, 2009-2012) who is seeking to interview other Ehime JET alumni as part of a project aimed at re-establishing the Ehime Kenjinkai in Hawaii:
My name is Eliot Honda, I am a former ALT in Uwajima city. I was there from 2009-2012, I had a blast and learned a lot about Uwajima, and Ehime in my three years. I found out that my home, Hawaii has deep ties to Ehime dating as far back as Japan’s first interaction with a Head of State. King Kalakaua and Date Munenari would meet during Kalakaua’s trip to Japan.
Since returning I’ve attempted to stay active in JET and in international exchange. My wife and I have been working to rebuild the Ehime Kenjinkai (Ehime Prefecture Club.) One of the things we talked about doing is a series of videos on the Ehime area. I wanted to add a bit of JET in there, since I’ve also become a board member of the JET Alumni Association in Hawaii. I wanted to do a screen cap of Skype/Facetime interviews and get former/present JETs to talk about the area in Ehime they lived in. A bit about the history, the landscape, the people, the attractions, and overall lifestyle of the area they live/lived in.
Ehime and JET hold a very special place in my heard, and Uwajima has become a 2nd home for me; a place I can always return to. (And not just because my wife is from there.) I have so many friends, and now family in Uwajima. This prefecture is rarely visited, but has a lot of beauty in it, and the JET Program is constantly on the chopping block, and I think people outside of the program miss the value of the program.
If you’re interested in doing an interview (which will eventually go on YouTube) and also helping to show the beauty of Ehime and just how helpful the JET Program can be for international exchange, please email me.
Thank You,
Eliot Honda
Email: eliot.honda [at] gmail.com
Here are some previous JETwit posts with Eliot’s videos about JET and Ehime. And here is a JQ Magazine “Life After JET” interview with him.
Leah Zoller (CIR Ishikawa-ken, Anamizu, 2009-11) is the editor of The Ishikawa JET Kitchen: Cooking in Japan Without a Fight. A writer, web administrator, and translator, she also writes I’ll Make It Myself!, a blog about food culture in Japan; curates The Rice Cooker Chronicles, a series of essays by JETs and JET alumni on the theme of cooking/eating and being alone in Japan; and admins The JET Alumni Culinary Group in LinkedIn.
New Rice Cooker Chronicles submissions always welcome. Just e-mail it to Leah at jetwit [at] jetwit.com.
I’ve noticed a lot of people find my blog by searching for bamboo shoot recipes. This year, I wanted to develop a new recipe to add to the list and to make something other than bamboo-rice with the shoot I bought. My friend and temporary roommate mentioned that she had seen a bamboo and kabocha curry at a festival over the weekend….
CBS News did a feature on Japanese school lunches this past Saturday morning, May 18. They happened to pick a Higashi Chichibu Junior High School in Gumma-ken where JET Karl Hoeschen works and they ended up interviewing him for the story.
Click the link below to see the video. (The features starts around 07:54:30, after the opening segment on Michelle Obama.)
Here’s another link to the video that also has a written article in connection with the video: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-33816_162-57585156/whats-for-lunch-in-japanese-schools-its-always-healthy/
Leah Zoller (CIR Ishikawa-ken, Anamizu, 2009-11) is the editor of The Ishikawa JET Kitchen: Cooking in Japan Without a Fight. A writer, web administrator, and translator, she also writes I’ll Make It Myself!, a blog about food culture in Japan; curates The Rice Cooker Chronicles, a series of essays by JETs and JET alumni on the theme of cooking/eating and being alone in Japan; and admins The JET Alumni Culinary Group in LinkedIn.
New Rice Cooker Chronicles submissions always welcome. Just e-mail it to Leah at jetwit [at] jetwit.com.
Hug Chai Works (ハグチャイワークス)
Location: Sainen, Kanazawa (Kencho Road/60 near Kanazawa Station)
Type: Lunch, café
Dietary: Meals are not vegetarian-friendly, but bagels and baked goods are.
Language: Japanese
A little bit of background on this very unique job posting from http://www.jetaausa.com/2013/05/20/bridging-foundation-recruiting-jetaa-project-director/:
The JETAA USA Board of Advisors, the JETAA USA Country Representatives, and the JETAA USA Working Group have been collaborating with JET alum Paige Cottingham-Streater of the US-Japan Friendship Commission (among others) on the opportunity to grow and strengthen JETAA USA and its chapters. Thanks to Paige’s hard work, the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership has created a part-time position to work for the US-Japan Bridging Foundation to support this mission.
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May 20, 2013
United States-Japan Bridging Foundation (USJBF)
Part-time Project Director Position Announcement
The U.S.-Japan Bridging Foundation (USJBF), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening the ties between Japan and the U.S. through cultural and educational exchanges, is launching a new initiative “Strengthening the JETAA Network and Connecting Next Generation Leaders.” The purpose of the project is to build infrastructure in support of the Japan-Exchange and Teaching Program Alumni Association, United States of America (JETAA USA) and enhance its impact promoting U.S.-Japan relations. The first year of the project will involve fact-finding to collect and analyze information from the JETAA USA Working Group, local chapters and stakeholders in the U.S. and Japanese governments and local communities; enhance the jetaausa.com website, strengthen the online media Facebook and Twitter presence; help coordinate regional and national meetings/ conferences for participants from 19+ JETAA chapters; and other duties as required in order to carry out the mission of this position.
The Foundation seeks a part-time project director to: Read More
Every year JETAA Portland invites Pacific Northwest JETAA to join for an Iron Chef Cook-Off. This year, it looks like JETAA Portland was the official winner, though we’re guessing that all the attendees who got to eat the food were the real winners.
Photographic evidence of the event available on the PNW JETAA Facebook group, courtesy of President Cheryl Hou.
