Jun 7

JQ Magazine: Book Review — ‘Monkey Business Volume 5’

By Brett Rawson (Akita-ken, 2007-09) for JQ magazine. Brett is a writer, translator, and Ramen Runner. He has an MFA in Creative Writing Non-Fiction from The New School, and his writing has appeared in Narratively and Nowhere magazine. He is also co-founder of the quarterly publication The Seventh Wave and founder of Handwritten, a place […]


Apr 26

JQ Magazine: Book Review—‘Monkey Business Volume 4’

By Brett Rawson (Akita-ken, 2007-09) for JQ magazine. Brett is a writer, translator, and volunteer. He currently lives in New York, where he is pursuing an MFA in creative writing at The New School and is the professional development chair for the JET Alumni Association of New York. If you have job opportunities for JET […]


Mar 29

    By Brett Rawson (Akita-ken, 2007-09) for JQ magazine. Brett is a writer, translator, and volunteer. He currently lives in New York, where he is pursuing an MFA in creative writing at The New School and is the professional development chair for the JET Alumni Association of New York. If you have job opportunities […]


Jan 10

Pacific Northwest JETAA Newsletter seeks submissions by January 16

Via Pacific Northwest JETAA: Fellow JET Alums, In two weeks’ time, our annual newsletter will be going to proverbial print. You’ll be able to read about all the things PNWJETAA has been up to this past year, as well as get a forecast for the future. Last year, we added a new column called “Haikus From […]


Sep 28

Transitions 2012: Opportunities Forum and Networking Expo

Via Pacific Northwest JETAA  Posted by Kay Monroe (Miyazaki–shi, 1995 -97). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email. ———————————————————————————————————— Hey JET Alums, Transitions 2012 is in two days! A couple reasons to come: •New presentations. Rob Uy and Steven Joiner (see bios here) will be […]


Oct 30

Update 11/10/10: Had a nice email exchange with Carlo Capua (Niigata-ken, 2000-02) who is on the Board of Directors for Sister Cities International, a global network of 2000+ cities who do exchanges with each other at different levels – teacher, humanitarian, governmental, elected official, etc.  According to Carlo, SCI is in almost 200 countries around […]


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