Job: Dodgers – Asian Operations Assistant
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via Machiko Yasuda. Posted by Dipika Soni (Ishikawa-ken, 2003-06). Dipika currently works as an in-house translator for PFU (a Fujitsu company) in Kahoku-shi, Ishikawa-ken. She is also the vocalist for the Japanese hardcore punk band DEGRADE.
*Note: If you apply for this position, please let them know you learned of it from JetWit. Thanks.
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Job Position: Asian Operations Assistant (Los Angeles Dodgers)
Job Details:
The Asian Operations Assistant will assist the department Director and Senior Manager with the day to day office management.
Job: Turkey hiring 40,000 English teachers
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via Pacific Northwest JETAA. Posted by Dipika Soni (Ishikawa-ken, 2003-06). Dipika currently works as an in-house translator for PFU (a Fujitsu company) in Kahoku-shi, Ishikawa-ken. She is also the vocalist for the Japanese hardcore punk band DEGRADE.
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Check here for the article:
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-239130-turkey-to-hire-40000-native-english-speakers-as-guest-teachers.html
Job: Associate TV News Producer/Researcher (Washington DC)
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via JETAA NY. Posted by Dipika Soni (Ishikawa-ken, 2003-06). Dipika currently works as an in-house translator for PFU (a Fujitsu company) in Kahoku-shi, Ishikawa-ken. She is also the vocalist for the Japanese hardcore punk band DEGRADE.
*Note: If you apply for this position, please let them know you learned of it from JetWit. Thanks.
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Job Position: Associate TV News Producer/Researcher
Job Description:
Nippon Television is Japan’s one of largest commercial broadcaster, and the Washington DC Bureau is responsible for covering political affairs in the United States for our Japanese audience.
2:46 Quakebook project
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Via a recent article in the Wall Street Journal:
The 2:46 Quakebook Project is “a Twitter-sourced collection of personal accounts of the quake and its aftermath….one group’s response to the disaster initiated by the local blogging community that aims to raise money for relief efforts (the title refers to the time at which the magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck on March 11).”
Note: All proceeds will go to the Japanese Red Cross.
Taylor Anderson memorial service in Richmond, VA
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The below was sent by JETAA DC to its members via its chapter yahoogroup:
We have extended the deadline for messages in Taylor Anderson’s condolence book until Friday, April 1 at 12 pm. It doesn’t matter if your message is long or short, profound or emotional, we encourage you to send it to jetaadc.311relief [at] gmail.com. Members of the JETAADC Board will present the condolence book to Taylor’s family at a service to be held in Richmond on Saturday.
For more information on Taylor’s life, her experiences on JET, and Saturday’s service, please visit the website of the Richmond-Times Dispatch<http://www.legacy. com/obituaries/ timesdispatch/ obituary. aspx?n=taylor- anderson& pid=149794411>.
The family asks that in lieu of flowers, a donation be made to the Taylor Anderson Memorial Fund for the purpose of rebuilding schools in Ishinomaki City. Donation information is available here: http://www.st. catherines. org/tayloranders on.
Regards,
Leigh Ann Mastrini
Outreach Chair, JETAADC
Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE/USA) Update: 03.30-03.31.11
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The Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE/USA) has been an excellent source of updates via the earthquake section of its website as well as its Facebook page. The kind of info you’re likely not getting from CNN or network news. Notably, JET alum James Gannon (Ehime-ken, 1992-94) is the Director of JCIE/USA’s New York office. Here’s the latest update:
March 30 – 31 Fund Update: http://www.jcie.org/earthquakeupdate.html
- Increasing signs of mental health issues from stress to ‘survivors guilt’.
- Also, Peace Winds through its partner organization – Mercy Corps – reports on the attention and care being provided to children.
CLAIR 2011 “JET Streams Newsletter”
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Via CLAIR Tokyo:
Dear JET alumni,
- Here’s a link to the online version of this year’s JET Streams newsletter: http://www.jetprogramme.org/e/former/jetstreams.html
- Here’s a link directly to the PDF: http://www.jetprogramme.org/documents/pubs/JET%20STREAMS2011.pdf
JET Streams is distributed once a year to all JET alumni who request it and have registered their email address with CLAIR. Be sure to keep your email address updated so that you keep receiving JET Streams.
CLAIR would like to thank all the JETAA chapters and current/former JETs who contributed articles for this year’s JET Streams.
Table of Contents
- Greetings from Yoko Kimura, Chairperson of the Board of Directors
- JETAA Singapore: The New Kid on the Block
- JETAA Tokyo: A Closer Look
- JET Alumni Voices:
- Lorelei Cortez (Hyogo-ken, Santo-shi, 2004-07) of JETAA Northern California
- “Better Than a Thousand Days of Diligent Study” – Cristy Burne (Hyogo-ken, 1998-00) of JETAA Western Australia (Perth)
- “Shashinka – A Cultural and Visual Inspiration” – Stirling Elmendorf (Tokushima-ken, 2001-04) of JETAA Northern California
- Current JET Perspectives: “JET Island Life: Photographic Perspectives”
- JETAA International Meeting in Scotland
- Introduction of 2011-12 JETAA International Executive Committee
- Setting Up a JETAA Chapter
- From CLAIR Department of JET Program Management
- JETAA Chapter Representatives/Information
- Cartoon: “Final Thoughts” by David Namisato (CIR Aomori-ken, Ajigasawa-machi)
- “Words from the Editor” by Christian Tsuji
Anthony Bianchi back in Brooklyn for “Xaverian High School Japan Benefit Concert” tonight
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Just heard from JET alum, Brooklyn native and current Inuyama City Councilman Anthony Bianchi (Aichi-ken, Inuyama-shi) that he’s back in New York for a very short stay in order to attend his alma mater Xaverian High School‘s “Japan Benefit Concert” tonight (Thursday, March 31).
Anthony notes that any JET alums around are welcome to come. [Ed. Note: Sorry for the short notice. I wasn’t able to post this until 4:21 pm and it starts at 7:00 pm.]
Start time: 7:00 pm
Location: Xaverian High School, 71st St & Shore Road in Brooklyn
Cost: $10
NY’s Japan Society announces allocation of Japan Earthquake Relief Fund
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New York’s Japan Society has released full details about the non-profit organizations in Japan that will receive the first allocation of funds from Japan Society’s Japan Earthquake Relief Fund. Read on for their press release…
New York, NY – Japan Society today announced four Japanese nonprofit organizations that will receive a total of $1,000,000 in the first installment of funding from the Society’s Japan Earthquake Relief Fund for relief and recovery work in northeastern Japan.
The four organizations – Tokyo Volunteer Network for Disaster Relief, JEN, Entrepreneurial Training for Innovative Communities (ETIC), and the Japan NPO Center – are involved in immediate relief efforts to help victims of the earthquake and tsunamis that struck Japan on March 11, 2011.
“Each organization is on the front lines in Japan and is playing an important role in the relief process,” Japan Society President Motoatsu Sakurai said. “We are pleased to provide financial support to these groups.”
Minamisanriku JET Kathryn Oi shares her experience of the earthquake and tsunami
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Kathryn Oi (Miyagi-ken, Minamisanriku-shi) has shared a deeply personal description of her experience in the midst of one of the hardest hit towns by the earthquake and tsunami–Minamisanriku, which has lost approximately half of its 18,000 residents. The link below to the written piece which appears on the Claremon-McKenna College website where Kathryn went to college also includes a slideshow of before-and-after photos taken by Kathryn.
http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/news/japan2011.php
Katie Oi ’10 was teaching at a junior high school in Japan when the earthquake and tsunami hit the island. She offers the following firsthand account of the week following the disaster and her journey to safety. Katie is now back at home in Seattle, WA.
After a two hour nap or even a night’s long rest, I wake up suddenly feeling uneasy with a feeling like I had a bad dream somewhere deep within my slumber. It takes me even a few seconds to process where I am—back home in the comfort of my own bed—when it was just two weeks ago I was pinned in the heart of Mother Nature’s deadliest attack on Japan. I have to keep telling myself that the past two weeks were not a dream. What I witnessed was real: the devastation from a M9.0 earthquake and 30-meter tsunami, but also the perseverance to rise up as a people and continue to live in spite of all that.
CLICK HERE to read the full piece on the Claremont-McKenna College website.
Correction 3/31/11: Katie e-mailed to point out that she incorrectly mentioned the tsunami as 30 meters a couple times in her piece. The actual reported height, she says, was 16 meters.
Fundraising: Instructions for donating directly to Iwate prefectural government
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The following information was shared by JET alum Susan Pickett (Iwate-ken, Miyako-shi) who helped gather information for anyone who would like to donate directly to the Iwate prefectural government. The information is also available via the Facebook group “Grassroots Aide for Iwate“ (which I believe was set up by a JET alum, but not sure).
Note: JETwit.com does not advocate for or recommend any one particular charity or relief effort. This is just one more helpful example of JET alums helping to facilitate donations to Japan.
What Can I do?
I spent a year teaching English in Iwate Prefecture (Miyako) in the Tohoku Region- (northern Japan), and ever since the earthquake, I have been asking myself what can I do to help the people of Iwate and in particular those in the coastal towns severely hit by the tsunami.
Iwate Prefecture has set up a Disaster Relief Fund for the citizens affected by the earthquake and tsunami.
The Iwate Prefectural Site in Japanese is here: http://www.pref.iwate.jp/index.rbz Information on Iwate and the Great Tohoku Earthquake
Wikipedia info on the earthquake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami#Japan
Charity information on the Iwate Prefecture site (English) (PDF): http://sv032.office.pref.iwate.jp/~bousai/taioujoukyou/gienkin_kaigai2.pdf
Charity Donations for the Great Tohoku Earthquake Disaster
Those who want to make a direct contribution to Iwate Prefectural victims and affected areas from overseas can make a bank transfer to the following location. The government of Iwate has a committee to decide how to distribute the funds. Those who want to make a direct contribution to Iwate Prefectural victims and affected areas from overseas can make a bank transfer to the following location.
1 Bank Transfer Account Information
- Bank (JPN: 銀行名)
- The Bank of Iwate, Ltd(JPN: 岩手銀行)
- SWIFT Code
- SWIFT: BAIWJPJT
- Branch: Kencho Branch(JPN: 県庁支店)
- Branch No: 009
- Account No. :009-2016634
- Beneficiary’s Name (JPN: 口座名義):Iwate Prefecture Disaster Relief Charity Committee (JPN: 岩手県災害義援金募集委員会)
- Beneficiary’s Address/Telephone Number (JPN: 住所/電話番号): Japan, Iwate-ken, Morioka-shi, Uchimaru 10-1 Office of Health and Welfare Planning Iwate Prefectural Government Tel :019-629-5408
*(Note: Please remember that there may be bank charges involved with transferring money overseas)
2 Issuances of Receipts
- For those that require a receipt for their charitable donation, please download the following form : http://sv032.office.pref.iwate.jp/~bousai/taioujoukyou/gienkin_kaigai2_yousiki.pdf
- Fill out your address, name, transfer account information, and amount of money donated. Then send that form by mail, fax, or email to the Office of Health and Welfare Planning of the Iwate Government (the address is written below).
3 Distribution of Charitable Donations
A separate committee will be formed to decide how to distribute charity funds.
- < Iwate Prefecture Disaster Relief Charity Committee >
- 〒020-8570 Iwate-ken, Morioka-shi, Uchimaru 10-1
- Office of Health and Welfare Planning
- Iwate Prefectural Government
- TEL 019-629-5408 FAX 019-629-5419 Email AD0001 [at] pref.iwate.jp
Miyagi JET writes of ruin, survival, rebuilding
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The below letter by current JET Waylon Bryson (Miyagi-ken, Sendai-shi) appeared recently in the Washington State University student publication where Bryson attended college.
The following letter was sent to WSU history instructor Roger Chan, who taught author Waylon Bryson, a philosophy graduate of 2007. Chan shared it with Noriko Kawamura, associate professor of history, who passed it on for WSU Today to share with the university community. Bryson is working in Sendai, Japan as an English teacher. This fall he will attend Vanderbilt Law in Nashville, Tenn.
I have lived in the city of Sendai, Japan for the past three and a half years, where I teach English for the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme. I was at my desk in the teachers’ room of Hachiken Junior High School when the earthquake struck.
Earthquakes are quite common in Japan and I, like the other staff members, paid little attention at first.
Then the room moved several feet. I had to physically hold onto my desk so that it wouldn’t move away from me. A control panel on the wall lit up like a Christmas tree and alarm bells started sounding. I could hear students screaming from the floors above as cracks snaked along the concrete walls and the building started groaning ominously.
CLICK HERE to read the full article on the WSU Today site.
JETAA USA Earthquake Relief Fund Update: Nominated Relief Funds
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JETAA USA is in the process of figuring out the best use of the donations it has collected and is continuing to collect for the JETAA USA Earthquake Relief Fund. Below is the latest from JETAA USA:
Nominated Relief Funds
CLAIR NY has offered their guidance in helping JETAA USA make a decision. CLAIR NY will not have a vote in the final outcome, but will simply be providing their thoughts on the effectiveness, feasibility, etc. on the nominations that the chapters have submitted. Additionally, Charity Navigator is a useful online resource which shows the effectiveness of US NGOs. We are working on finding a similar resource for Japanese NGOs.
There were suggestions from a few different chapters that the fund be donated in memory of any JETs lost in the disaster. Chapters will have a chance to vote on this idea, although it’s not reflected in the below list. [Emphasis added by JETwit.]
Below are the nominated causes/ organizations for the JETAA USA Earthquake Relief Fund:
Akai Hane (Red Feather Community Chest): Akai Hane, or the Red Feather Community Chest of Japan, is a non-governmental organization that focuses on welfare work and a member of United Way Worldwide. Central Community Chest of Japan and each Local Community Chests are raising fund to support victims, and to support volunteer groups which are responding to the disaster.
AmeriCares: AmeriCares is in direct contact with local officials, evacuation shelters and hospitals treating the injured and caring for evacuees, and based on early assessments and the anticipated need for long-term humanitarian aid, they’ve expanded set up an office in Tokyo to coordinate relief efforts. AmeriCares participated in the first inter-agency organizational meeting led by MOFA and included representatives of the Japanese Cabinet, UN agencies, and Japanese NGOs.
Association for Aid and Relief in Japan (AAR): Association for Aid and Relief, Japan (AAR JAPAN) mainly focus on the following activities: emergency assistance, assistance to persons with disabilities, and mine action. In response to the disaster in Japan, their Emergency Relief Team continues to visit welfare facilities for the aged and people with disabilities in the affected area to deliver food and fuel.
Community Project (Cause): With JET being an education- focused program, we’d like to identify a fund or organization focused on long-term rebuilding of schools in the affected areas (e.g. replenishing libraries, rebuilding institutions, installing student computers, providing teaching materials, playground equipment, etc). This also falls in line with JET’s mission of grassroots community involvement.
CRASH Japan: Christian Relief, Assistance, Support and Hope (CRASH) is a network supporting Christians to do relief work in Japan and around the world. CRASH equips and prepares churches and missions to be there to help their communities when disasters strike and coordinates Christian volunteers to work with local ministries in the event of a disaster.
Direct Donation: Following an immediate donation to a disaster relief organization for the pressing needs, we would like the Fund continue to be maintained by JETAANY. We’d like the collection of donations to continue and those funds to go toward rebuilding the English program at the schools where the JET’s who were lost in this disaster worked.
Fukushima / Iwate / Miyagi Prefecture Direct Funds: Fukushima, Iwate and Miyagi (separate accounts for donating to relief or reconstruction) have established direct donation accounts.
Habitat for Humanity: Habitat for Humanity International currently has an assessment team in Japan, and together with Habitat for Humanity Japan, are liaising with government authorities and other organizations on how to best support the relief effort. In the short-term, Habitat for Humanity expects its response to include mobilizing volunteers in Japan to work with other organizations in the relief operation, like beginning the clean-up process, and a longer-term plan will then be plotted, when the full extent of the damage is known and the best course of action identified.
Japan Platform: Japan Platform (JPF) is an international emergency humanitarian aid organization which offers more effective and prompter emergency aid, in response to the world situation, focusing the issues of refugees and natural disaster. JPF conducts such aid with a tripartite cooperation system where NGOs, business community, and government of Japan work in close cooperation, based on equal partnership, making the most of the respective sectors’ characteristics and resources.
Japan Red Cross: The Japanese Red Cross Society (JRCS) is scaling up its response to meet the needs of the affected population as well as assessing the situation at both national headquarters and branch level in the affected prefectures, to plan for the next phases of the humanitarian operation.
The Boston Foundation (via the Japan America Society of Boston): This fund was established last week at The Boston Foundation with an initial leadership grant of $100,000 from Atsuko and Lawrence Fish, who have also pledged to cover all administrative costs of the fund. Contributions to this fund are for immediate relief – not for long-term infrastructure recovery, which is seen as the responsibility of the government of Japan.
JEN: Japanese Emergency NGOs was founded as a coalition of relief workers with experience in overseas disasters. More than a decade ago, JEN became an independent NGO implementing disaster relief work. JEN is coordinating with local government and at the grassroots level to deliver blankets and food in the short term, and it has two teams in the affected areas assessing its long-term response.
Mercy Corps: Mercy Corps is working to help survivors of Japan’s earthquake and tsunami in cooperation with our longstanding partner, Peace Winds. Peace Winds continues to deliver emergency supplies — including large shelters, tents, blankets, instant rice and fresh produce — to families evacuated from homes in the tsunami-devastated city of Kesennuma. Mercy Corps has deployed our emergency team leader to help Peace Winds coordinate its lifesaving response.
Monty Dickson Fund: A to be established fund that will assist efforts to find Monty and to assist his family in their ongoing efforts to find Monty, a current JET participant who was teaching in Rikuzentakata on the day of the earthquake and tsunami – Rikuzentakata was destroyed by the tsunami. Monty called friends from the town cultural hall after the earthquake, but has not been heard from since.
Nippon Foundation: The Nippon Foundation has extensive experience working with local partners to provide support after disasters such as the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995, and more recently the Mid Niigata Earthquake and Noto Peninsula Earthquake. The Nippon Foundation/CANPAN Northeastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Fund aims to provide both immediate aid as well as medium to long-term support to ensure a full recovery of the affected areas, in an accountable and timely manner.
Orphanages in Japan: Many children may have become parentless due to the natural disaster. We should identify a fund or organization in Japan that supports orphans and orphanages long-term.
Oxfam Japan: Oxfam Japan will be working with two partners in Japan on providing support to those on the margins of society who might otherwise have difficulty accessing emergency relief. One group is assisting mothers and babies and the other is providing information to non-Japanese speakers living in Japan.
Peace Winds America: Peace Winds America is the US chapter of Peace Winds Japan, a Japanese NGO, and a partner of Mercy Corps, focusing their efforts on strengthening disaster management readiness in case of disasters in Asia. They are currently on the ground in Japan, and most recently are arranging a convoy of 10 trucks of supplies to Iwate and Miyagi, providing food, water, gas, blankets, clothing to at least 5 different affected communities (as of March 22).
Peace Winds Japan: Peace Winds Japan is one of the largest Japanese organizations providing humanitarian relief such as food, clothing, fuel and medical supplies to the affected areas. It is also currently listed on Global Giving’s website as one of 7 ongoing projects in Japan in need of assistance.
Rehabilitation: Funds should go to an as yet unidentified group in Japan that provides long-term rehabilitation services for the disabled.
Riverside Sendai Relief Fund: Riverside and Sendai have been friends since 1951 and sister cities since 1957 in what is one of the oldest continuous sister city relationships in the United States.
Save the Children: Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organization for children, working in more than 120 countries. In Japan they have a 3 year plan strategy—based on initial assessments—to first help provide essential relief items and launch child protection activities, and then help restore children’s sense of security and normalcy and advocate for their inclusion in emergency preparedness planning.
Second Harvest: Second Harvest Japan distributes food to soup kitchens, orphanages, the elderly, emergency shelters, single mothers, the homeless, migrant workers, and many others.
UNICEF Japan: Japan Committee for UNICEF has been making a concerted effort to help affected children and their families by mobilizing its well-established network of partners, including the private sector, schools, religious groups and volunteers. The Committee is mobilizing assistance in the areas of maternal and child health, education and psychosocial support.
U.S. Japan Council: The U.S.-Japan Council Earthquake Relief Fund was established to collect donations that directly support immediate relief and the long-term rebuilding in Japan. 100% of all donations will go to directly to NGOs/NPOs in Japan. On March 22, USJC announced that the first disbursement will go to two Japanese NGO platforms: The Japan Platform (JPF) and the Center for Public Resource Development (CPRD).
Tsunami Reflections by Iwate JET Alum
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Renay Loper (ALT, Iwate 2006-2007) is a freelance writer and international education professional currently seeking FT opportunities. Visit her at Atlas In Her Hand
Although a couple of weeks have passed since the disaster, each day seems to bring a new struggle to Japan, and more importantly, the people. If you are anything like me, events like this humbly (and sadly) have a way of putting things into perspective – we just never know what the next minute, hour, or day has in store for us.
All it takes is one second.
Place In My Heart
Be ready. It is not known what the universe has in store for you within the next year…month…week…day…hour. Realistically, life changes in an instant. A lot of time is not needed for anything to happen – good or bad.
All too often it takes that instant of something happening to put things into perspective – whether it be a birth, a death, a natural or man-made disaster, a proclamation of “you are now man and wife”, a car accident, a revelation of infidelity…or well, you get the point. We just never know what is around the corner.
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Atlas In Her Hand is Renay’s travel blog
Mainichi Daily News: JET program English teachers in Miyagi say they won’t leave
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An article from The Mainichi Daily News about the 1/3 of the 70 Miyagi Prefecture JETs who have chosen to stay in Miyagi and continue working for their communities.
The article quotes the following JETs:
- Katherine Sheu, 25, from Los Angeles, who has taught English at five elementary and junior high schools in Ishinomaki for the past three years.
- Edward Clemons, 25, from Chicago,is in his second year of teaching conversational classes for adults and school students in Kesennuma, another Miyagi city severely damaged by the disaster.
- Daniel Villeneuve (Canada), a Miyagi prefectural advisor for the assistant language teachers.
Full article here:
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/features/news/20110329p2g00m0fe073000c.html
