Job: News Reporter/Research Assistant – Yomiuri Shimbun (Los Angeles, CA)
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Job Title: News Reporter/Research Assistant
Posted by: Yomiuri Shimbun
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Contract: Full-Time
Here’s a job received directly from the newspaper:
Founded in 1874, The Yomiuri Shimbun is the Japan’s largest and most influential national daily newspaper in Japan. We have 28 international bureaus, three of which are in the United States: Washington DC, New York and Los Angeles.
- The Yomiuri Shimbun: www.yomiuri.co.jp
- The Yomiuri Shimbun Media Data: http://adv.yomiuri.co.jp/m-data/english/index.html
- The Japan News (Our English-language daily): www.the-japan-news.com
Job Description
The Los Angeles Bureau of the Yomiuri Shimbun seeks a reporter/research assistant to help cover major events—including the 2020 presidential campaign and political news in the western and Midwestern states—as well as breaking news stories throughout the year. This job primarily involves assisting the Japanese Bureau Chief by following and monitoring news stories, arranging and conducting interviews, transcribing interviews, and covering important news events as they break.
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Job Title: Group Leaders
Posted by: Experiment in International Living
Location: Brattleboro, VT, USA & Japan
Contract: Full-Time
The Experiment in International Living is currently hiring experienced and inclusive educators to serve as group leaders to guide our summer 2020 programs in Japan. To learn more about our programs in Japan, please visit: https://www.experiment.org/program-landing/destinations/?location=Japan&country=&theme
Application Process: To apply for the leader position, visit www.worldlearning.org/leaderapplication
Job: Manager For Philanthropic Relations – Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (Okinawa, Japan)
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Job Title: Manager For Philanthropic Relations
Posted by: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST)
Location: Onna, Okinawa, Japan
Contract: Full-Time
Here’s a job shared with us:
The Office of Institutional Development in the Division of the President at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), seeks a dynamic and energetic individual to serve as Manager for Philanthropic Relations. This individual will assist OIST in developing and cultivating networks with philanthropists, foundations, and corporations to assist in building strategic relations and securing external funding. The position will report to the Senior Advisor for Institutional Development.
The ideal candidate will be bi-lingual in Japanese and English, have extensive experience cultivating networks in the above areas, and will possess working knowledge in philanthropic giving and fundraising and be comfortable interacting with leaders from industry and philanthropy.
Structurally, this individual will report to the Senior Advisor for Institutional Development and be part of the Office of Institutional Development based in OIST’s Division of the President. The individual will travel between OIST and mainland Japan as needed and may be required to travel internationally on occasion. The Manager of Philanthropic Relations will participate in regular strategic meetings via videoconference and/or in-person with the Institutional Development team.
Job: Assistant Curator of Japanese & Korean Art – The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minnesota, USA)
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Job Title: Assistant Curator of Japanese & Korean Art
Posted by: The Minneapolis Institute of Art
Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA
Contract: Full-Time
Job: Group Leaders – Experiment in International Living (Vermont, USA & Japan)
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Job Title: Group Leaders
Posted by: Experiment in International Living
Location: Brattleboro, VT, USA & Japan
Contract: Full-Time
The Experiment in International Living is currently hiring experienced and inclusive educators to serve as group leaders to guide our summer 2020 programs in Japan. To learn more about our programs in Japan, please visit: https://www.experiment.org/program-landing/destinations/?location=Japan&country=&theme
Application Process: To apply for the leader position, visit www.worldlearning.org/leaderapplication
Job: Secretary – Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations (New York City, NY, USA)
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Job Title: Secretary
Posted by: Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations
Location: New York City, NY, USA
Contract: Full-Time
Thanks to JET alum, Marissa Trierweiler (Hiroshima-ken) for passing along the below job opening with her organization.
Job: Communications Director – American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (Tokyo, Japan)
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Job Title: Communications Director
Posted by: American Chamber of Commerce in Japan
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Contract: Full-Time
Here’s a job passed along to us directly from The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan:
The ACCJ Communications Director is responsible for handling all matters related to ACCJ communications, including the development and implementation of strategy, the execution of communications campaigns that engage members and key stakeholders, and the oversight and management of communications content and material. The Communications Director works with the ACCJ leadership and management team to:
- Ensure that the ACCJ’s brand, key milestones, and positions are reflected in all communications accurately, consistently, and with the highest quality, supporting the ACCJ’s ability to achieve its mission and position itself as the pre-eminent resource on American business in Japan.
- Develop communications strategies and utilize communications tools to effectively 1) meet the needs of and engage current and future members and 2) build and maintain relationships with external stakeholders, including media, government, and other business organizations.
Application Process: https://www.accj.or.jp/communications-director.html
Job: Public Relations and Communications Associate – Consulate General of Japan in New York (New York, USA )
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Job Title: Public Relations and Communications Associate
Posted by: Consulate General of Japan in New York
Location: New York City, NY, USA
Contract: Full-Time
Here’s a job opening with The Japan Information Center at the Consulate General of Japan in New York:
The Japan Information Center at the Consulate General of Japan in New York is currently seeking to hire a Public Relations and Communications Associate for its cultural and public affairs section.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinate the administration of government scholarship programs and exchange programs for our office
- Plan cultural events and other related seminars
- Write newsletters, emails and other materials
- Contact people and organizations in an official capacity for various programs which include collaboration on grassroots events
- Respond to general inquiries from the public, within our jurisdiction
- Make research on Japan-related cultural issues and US media outlets
- Other duties as deemed necessary
Application Process: For position details and how to apply, please see the job listing located here: https://bit.ly/2EmpYID
January 2020 Chapter Beat
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JETAA Chapter Beat is a periodic mosaic of events taking place in the JETAA sphere. Compiled by AJET‘s Director of Alumni Relations Megan Buhagiar (Ishikawa Prefecture, 2017- Present)
Please click on the following link to see what’s happening with your local JETAA chapter for January 2020!
Connect: The Unexpected Path of Life After JET
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Lillian Hanako Rowlatt, a former JET (ALT, Niigata-ken, 2003-05) wrote an article for this month’s issue of Connect (an online monthly dedicated to the JET Program and expat community in Japan) about how her JET experience helped launched her career delivering Japanese food across the world.
WIT Life #337: Japanese Home Cooking
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Interpreter/Translator/Writer Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03) presents WIT Life, a periodic series about aspects of Japanese culture such as film, food and language. Stacy starts her day by watching Fujisankei’s newscast in Japanese, and here she offers some interesting tidbits and trends along with her own observations.
It’s been a long time since I’ve written here, and I can’t believe the holiday season is already upon us! If you are like me and are still in the midst of Christmas gift shopping, what better present is there than books? In the last week I’ve visited various bookstores in the city, and was lucky enough to be introduced to the fantastic new cookbook Japanese Home Cooking (Simple Meals, Authentic Flavors) from the cooking teacher, noodle maker, grain activist and author Sonoko Sakai.
California-based, Queens-born Sakai shares personal stories while showcasing traditional Japanese dishes in this beautifully photographed book. She offers readers advice on how to stock their pantries with the necessary ingredients for creating any Japanese meal, as she views this as the most important aspect of Japanese cuisine (she often takes students on tours of Japanese grocery stores as they can be hard to navigate if you are not familiar with what is being sold). I like how she opens the book by describing freshness, beauty, seasonality, simplicity and economy as the five keys to Japanese cooking. As an introduction she also breaks down the five elements of cooking and eating (i.e. five colors, five senses, five flavors), making these essential aspects easy to remember.
Justin’s Japan: ‘Weathering with You’ at Anime NYC
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By JQ magazine editor Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02) for Shukan NY Seikatsu. Justin has written about Japanese arts and entertainment for JETAA since 2005. For more of his articles, click here.
On Nov. 17, more than 3,000 fans gathered in the Special Events Hall of the Javits Center for the East Coast premiere of “Weathering with You,” the latest animated film from celebrated writer/director Makoto Shinkai.
The screening served as the Closing Film event of the annual Anime NYC convention, which in its third year drew a record 46,000 fans over three days. This hotly anticipated new film from Shinkai and producer Genki Kawamura is the follow-up to their critically acclaimed global smash “Your Name” (2016), the highest-grossing Japanese film of the decade.
Produced in English and set for national release in January by New York’s own GKIDS (who backed last year’s Academy Award-nominated anime film “Mirai”), “Weathering with You” follows high schooler Hodaka, who runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. After befriending the bright and strong-willed Hina, Hodaka witnesses her strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky. Together the two develop a successful “sunshine” startup, but what happens when manipulating the weather leads to even greater problems?
A crowd-pleasing story with elements of comedy and romance that wed the supernatural elements of “Your Name” with the more adult concerns of Shinkai’s earlier work “The Garden of Words” (2013), “Weathering with You” serves up unforgettable animation in its exquisite lensing of an unusually gloomy and rainy Tokyo. Japanese rock band Radwimps, also returning from “Your Name,” provide solid music and songs.
“Weathering with You” premieres in the New York metropolitan area with dubbed and subtitled fan preview screenings Jan. 15-16. The film opens nationwide Jan. 17. For more information, visit https://gkids.com/films/weathering-with-you.
Job: Program Officer, Innovators Network – Japan Society (New York City, NY)
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Job Title: Program Officer, Innovators Network
Posted by: Japan Society
Location: New York City, NY, USA
Contract: Full-Time
Job: Co-Instructor – TABLE FOR TWO USA (Providence, RI, USA)
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Job Title: Co-Instructor for a Japanese nutrition program
Posted by: TABLE FOR TWO USA
Location: Providence, RI, USA
Contract: Part-Time
Job: Production Intern – Tokyo Broadcasting System (Washington, D.C., USA)
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Job Title: Production Intern
Posted by: Tokyo Broadcasting System
Location: Washington, D.C., USA
Contract: Full-Time
Here’s an internship received directly from the company:
Tokyo Broadcasting System is one of Japan’s oldest and largest private television networks, with an average viewing audience of approximately 4-6 million. Tokyo Broadcasting System seeks a part-time production intern to work at our Washington, DC bureau for the Spring 2020 semester.
The intern would take an active role in supporting our daily news production schedule by:
- Attending relevant briefings and events in the area, including congressional hearings, think tank panels, and regularly scheduled government press briefings.
- Conducting research on topics related to our coverage, especially in the run-up to 2020 Elections
- Maintaining a schedule of newsworthy events in the Washington, DC area.
- Transcribing interviews and remarks in preparation for on-air use.
Desired traits and qualifications:
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.
- Superior research and analytic skills, especially the ability to quickly synthesize and convey pertinent information about a certain topic.
- Attention to detail and punctuality.
- A familiarity with global current events.
- Proficiency in Japanese is a plus, but not required.
