Story and photos by JQ magazine editor Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02). Justin has written about Japanese arts and entertainment for JETAA since 2005. For more of his articles, click here. 

Yesterday (Aug. 6), gloomy skies gave way to a candy-colored world inside Radio City Music Hall as J-pop sensation YOASOBI made their New York debut with a sold out performance at Radio City Music Hall just days after appearing at Lollapalooza in Chicago. As the packed crowd settled in to the intro music of “I Bet My Life” by Imagine Dragons, composer Ayase, vocalist ikura and their tight four piece band took the stage and would not let go for the next 90 minutes.

On a massive horizontal high def screen behind them, a CGI storybook opened to whimsical music and purple spotlights launching into a full light show, bringing an arena-ready feel to the nearly 6,000 in attendance.

“We are YOASOBI from Japan!” proclaimed ikura, as the group unveiled their opening statement of “UNDEAD” (their latest song, appearing in anime MONOGATARI Series OFF & MONSTER Season) and “Shukufuku.” “We came ready to rock the stage. Are you ready to sing? Are you ready to dance?”

The crowd certainly was, as the tune “Seventeen” featured slap bass, dazzling projections and countless green lasers that beamed all the way to the ceiling. “Halcyon” received thunderous applause, with this upbeat ballad spiked with acoustic guitars and a disco chorus giving way to “Suki Da.” “Okay everybody, let’s rock together!,” commanded ikura, prompting synchronized handclaps by the crowd to some very animated lyrics onscreen.

“For the next song, I want to see a sense of unity, so everyone light up your phones.” This introduction to “Tabun” did just that, with the entire crowd up on their feed and swaying their arms in unison, phones aglow.

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Position: Japanese-English Bilingual Project Coordinator
Posted by: Japanese Manufacturing Company
Location: Surprise, AZ, USA
Contract: Full Time

Thanks to A Japanese Manufacturing Company in Surprise, AZ for passing along the following job opening.

Job Description: As a Coordinator, the right candidate would promote the corporate image by representing the President internally and externally; serve as liaison between the President, key executives, employees and outside vendors, while providing overall administrative support critical for the effective and efficient functioning of the President’s office.

Appealing Points:

• This is a great opportunity to start your career back in the US in a very promising position as a translator/interpreter and keep your language skills sharp while developing other administrative and business-related skills.
• After the candidate is hired and has become accustomed to work, the company is looking to send the candidate to HQ in Japan for training and come back in order to further promote the brand in the future.
• The company provides good benefits as well.

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Position: Boarding Assistant
Posted by: Japanese Educational Organization
Location: Westchester, NY, USA
Contract: Full Time

Thanks to Japanese Educational Organization in Westchester, NY for passing along the following job opening.

Job Description: As a boarding assistant, you would be responsible for providing a safe environment for students to live within the hall, assist in taking care of different kinds of forms and paperwork submitted by the student’s parents as well as answering questions from concerned parents.

Other duties for this position include assisting and supporting staff with extracurricular activities, organizing fun events and even teaching 1-2 ILS per week in the Academic Extension Program.

Appealing points:

• This position comes with amazing perks such as a great amount of vacation time. For example, while students are on summer or winter vacation, you are not required to be around school grounds.
• Another great point this position offers is that they would provide you with both housing, utilities and meals, so there is no need to rent an apartment or even worry about cooking while school is in session.
• This is a great work environment where you would be around students, so if you have any interest in being a role model for a younger generation of students while providing them with support during their stay in the board house, this could be a great fit for you!
• Having previous teaching experience is a big plus!! Also, Japanese is not needed, however speaking it would be a plus as well!!
• JET Alumni would be a great fit for this job, so we encourage them to apply for this position.

Application Process: If interested, please send an email with a copy of your resume to carlos@919usa.com.

JET alum Joe Palermo (actually a trailblazing MEF) has released a new book of 38 stories, segmented into Childhood, Adulthood, and A Slice of Japan. The work is entitled “Who Killed My Sea Monkeys? And Other Tales of Life.”

The book is described as follows:

The world, through Joe Palermo’s eyes, is always an exciting place. His conversational writing style makes you feel as if he is regaling you with his adventures over a beer or cup of coffee. Whether writing about Smokey the Bear as his childhood therapist, the demise of his Sea Monkeys, living in Japan, or more recent events like losing his wife to a Korean boy band, you’ll feel as if you’ve experienced it yourself.

The back cover endorsement is by New York Times bestselling author Bob Greene, author of Late Edition: A Love Story.

From Bob:

Joe Palermo is a fellow with a delightful ability to bring warmth and good feelings straight from his childhood recollections, and from his current-day observations, onto the printed page. He’ll make you smile and remember.

Who Killed My Sea Monkeys? And Other Tales of Life is currently available in Kindle, paperback and hardcover formats on Amazon.

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Position: Program Specialist
Posted by: Study Abroad Foundation at IES Global
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Contract: Full Time

Thanks to the Study Abroad Foundation at IES Global for passing along the following job opening.

Summary of Position: The Program Specialist is responsible for:

• Maintaining relationships with host institutions within an assigned portfolio, and for managing detailed program information for global use across the organization. 
• Coordinating student admissions processes with the Global Enrollment Management team and SAF Country Offices.
• Creating, compiling and delivering relevant pre-departure orientation content for programs taking place at host institutions.
• Providing support and services to participating students while they are participating in the program.
• Supporting the program team on special projects.

Application Process: For more information and to apply, plesae click here – https://iesabroad.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/IES_Abroad_Careers/job/Program-Specialist_R-000016

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Position: Tour and Docent Coordinator
Posted by: Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens
Location: Delray Beach, FL, USA
Contract: Full Time

Thanks to Wendy Lo (Toyama, 2002-2005) for passing along the following job opening.

The Tour and Docent Coordinator reports to the Curator of Education will manage the coordination and scheduling of tours for adults and children.

They are also responsible for the scheduling, coordination, implementation of docents schedule and program. The position will assist with the Curator of Education in docent training. The position will also work with registrations of cultural demonstrations. Must be available to work and assist evenings and weekend museum events as needed.

Application Process: Send resume to Wendy at <wlo@pbc.gov>.

This is a position at Morikami Inc., a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. We have an excellent work environment, which in addition to salary, offers benefits including paid sick time, vacation, and personal time and 401k. Morikami Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

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Position: ESL Teacher
Posted by: Japanese Children’s Society
Location: Englewood Cliffs, NJ, USA
Contract: Full Time

Description:

• Position: ESL Teacher
• Schedule: Friday mornings, 8:20 AM – 12:20 PM
• Class Structure: Four 40-minute classes
• Student Demographic: Children who speak Japanese
• Compensation: $30 per class
• Requirements: No teaching license required, but previous teaching experience is preferred

Applicatino Process: To apply, please send an email to fujita.mayuko@nyikuei.org

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Position: Account Manager
Posted by: Pasona North America
Location: Dublin, OH, USA
Contract: Full Time

Thanks to Lauren Tanaka (Osaka, 2017-2020) for passing along the following job opening.

Sales Representative is responsible for generating existing and new customer sales, and for increasing account penetration and market share. Client interactions may include program presentation, client follow-up, and end user sales support.

Primary Responsibilities

• Under direct supervision of the Branch Manager and/or Assistant Sales Manager, facilitate as an extension of the outside sales force to proactively grow our client base.
• Sells a variety of merchandise such as fasteners, screws, nuts, bolts, screw machines and related items to the company’s business services.
• Create and deliver qualified opportunities to the Sales Representatives by compiling lists of prospective customers, for the use of sales leads, based on information from newspapers, business directories, internet, networking, and other sources.
• Displays or demonstrates products using samples and/or catalogs to emphasize sellable features.

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Position: Outside Sales Representative
Posted by: Pasona North America
Location: Irvine, CA, USA
Contract: Full Time

Thanks to Lauren Tanaka (Osaka, 2017-2020) for passing along the following job opening.

This position of Outside Sales representative is responsible for developing relationships with customers and growing accounts in their assigned territory through the promotion and selling of the company’s products to commercial.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Coordinates and determine sales distribution by establishing sales market, quotas, and goals.
• Reviews production schedules and determine sales potential and inventory requirements to manage current and new customers.
• Develops marketing strategy aligned with established objectives, market characteristics and cost factors.
• Develops and direct marketing activities to promote products in coordination.
• Attends food shows to generate new sales leads.
• Customer service – handles customer inquiries by phone or email. Resolves customers complaints by investigating problems; developing solutions; preparing reports; making recommendations to management.

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By JQ magazine editor Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02). Justin has written about Japanese arts and entertainment for JETAA since 2005. For more of his articles, click here. 

In the dog days of summer, it’s best to escape the heat in a place that’s cozy and cool. For those into both cutting-edge and classic anime, this month offers a diverse trio of theatrical revivals—all in the comfort of indoor air conditioning.

This month’s highlights include:

August 2-8

Moving

Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, 144 West 65th Street

$16, $19

A noted influence on Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and Kiyoshi Kurosawa, among many others, Shinji Sōmai was a consummate filmmaker’s filmmaker, and Moving is one of his most remarkable achievements. It follows the gradual, frequently messy untangling of love between a divorced couple in Kyoto as experienced by their 11-year-old daughter Renko (Tomoko Tabata, giving easily one of the greatest child performances in film), but evolves into something altogether stranger and more elemental by its conclusion. What’s so exceptional about Moving is its frank understanding of adolescent feeling and the emotional fluctuations borne out by loss and growing up, rendered in an exquisite color palette and via dexterous long takes. It’s a film that is as genuinely heartbreaking as it is funny and touching. This August, Film at Lincoln Center is thrilled to present the long overdue New York theatrical release of Moving in its brand-new 4K restoration, which won the Best Restored Film Award at the 2023 Venice Classics. A selection of the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. A Cinema Guild release. Screenings feature an exclusive video introduction from Ryûsuke Hamaguchi!

August 3-7

Ponyo

Various theaters

Various prices

From Academy Award-winning director Hayao Miyazaki! Perfect for audiences of all ages, Ponyo centers on the friendship between five-year-old Sosuke and a magical goldfish named Ponyo, the young daughter of a sorcerer father and a sea-goddess mother. After a chance encounter, Ponyo yearns to become a human so she can be with Sosuke. As to be expected with Miyazaki, the film is awash in pure unbridled imagination and visual wonder–but it is the tender love, humor, and devotion exhibited by Ponyo and Sosuke that form the emotional heart of the film.

Sunday, August 4, 8:00 p.m. 

FLOW – 2024 Anime Shibari Tour

Hammerstein Ballroom at Manhattan Center, 311 West 34th Street

From $44

Fresh from their 20th anniversary, FLOW will be playing an anime song ONLY concert all around the world! After debuting in 2003, FLOW has an established reputation for hit anime works, including themes for anime series Naruto (“GO!!!,” many others), opening themes for Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (“COLORS,” “WORLD END”), and the opening theme for Tales of Zestiria the Cross (“Kaze no Uta”). They have written songs for numerous other anime works as well. Since 2006 they have been active playing shows not only in Japan but overseas, performing over 60 live performances in 19 countries in Asia, North America, South America, Europe, and the Middle East, transcending borders as a live band. Heavily streamed, their song “Sign” for the opening of Naruto Shippuden has been played over 120 million times worldwide on Spotify.

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Position: Boarding Assistant in Boy’s Residence Hall
Posted by: Keio Academy of New York
Location: Purchase, NY, USA
Contract: Full Time

Thanks to Keio Academy of New York for passing along the following job opening.

Description:

• Ensure to provide the save environment for the Residence Hall.
• Ensure that students follow daily schedule and the Residence Hall policies set by the school.
• Provide support and supervision for students during non-academic hours. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, manning the dormitory offices to handle requests and questions from students, supervising house sports practice/club activities/library hours/evening study hours/dining hall, and coordinating with nurse to care for sick students.
• Be available to students, as necessary, to support their personal, educational and academic needs.
• Review and confirm multiple forms submitted by parents and students.
• Answer questions and concerns from parents. Back-up Head of House when they are off-duty.

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Position: Travel Consultant (Japan Specialist)
Posted by: Inside Travel Group
Location: Remote/Hybrid, Broomfield, CO, USA
Contract: Full Time

Thanks to Inside Travel Group for passing along the following job opening.

As a Travel Consultant, you will use your extensive understanding of Japan to create unforgettable cultural adventures for our clients. Exceptional time management, confidence, communication, and organisation are a must for efficiently prioritizing tasks and providing top-notch service for both new clients and ongoing bookings. High performance will be rewarded with sales and customer service-based commission, along with regular familiarisation trips to our destination countries to enhance your knowledge.

What You Will be Doing:

• Consult with customers to identify their individual holiday requirements.
• Create high-quality tailor-made itineraries based on customer requirements.
• Work to achieve individual and team sales targets.
• Co-ordinate all aspects of the customer booking to ensure successful delivery of trip.

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Position: Tour Guide
Posted by: Machinovate Co. Ltd.
Location: Osaka, Japan
Contract: Full Time

Thanks to Kimberly Matsuno (Niigata, 2019-2022) for passing along the following job opening.

【Job Description】
This role is ideally-suited to applicants wanting to establish a long-term career in Japan with true potential for professional growth, a varied and dynamic work environment, and key responsibilities in a leading destination management company.

This role necessitates a natural enthusiasm for life in Japan, an ability to communicate well with others (including groups and a range of nationalities), punctuality and professionalism in all aspects of your work, basic record-keeping and money handling, and a willingness to adapt to the needs, expectations, and personalities of guests, partner organizations and colleagues.

Applicants must have fluent spoken and written English, with an ability to produce high-quality written content quickly, consistently and independently for publication on our website and in printed material.
We are seeking to add to our team with a full-time position for the right candidate. Applicants living in Osaka. Experience with tour guiding in Japan or abroad is advantageous however not essential. Applicants must have fluent English and a minimum of basic to conversational Japanese.

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Position: Admissions Concierge
Posted by: Temple University, Japan Campus
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Contract: Full Time

Thanks to Temple University, Japan Campus (TUJ) for passing along the following job opening.

OVERVIEW OF POSITION
TUJ seeks a motivated and outgoing Admissions Concierge to support newly admitted undergraduate program students. The Admissions Concierge will focus on providing prompt and exceptional service to students from the point of admission to matriculation with a mindset of increasing the yield of admitted students and achieving a qualified and diverse student population.

The Concierge will also assist with continuing our current growth by developing new yield initiatives and assisting with recruitment activities. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication and organization skills, and student recruiting and sales and/or marketing experience. Previous experience in the education sector is preferred. Some weekend and evening work will be required.

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Position: Adjunct Lecturer for Religion and Society Course
Posted by: CIEE Tokyo
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Contract: Full Time

Thanks to Michele Fujii (Shiga-ken, 2010-2013) for passing along the following job opening.

Who We Are

CIEE is a nonprofit study abroad and intercultural exchange organization that transforms lives and builds bridges between individuals and nations through study abroad and international exchange experiences that help people develop skills for living in a globally interdependent and culturally diverse world.

Why Work With Us Are

You will change the world. CIEE builds bridges between different people, different countries, and different cultures. We help young people participate in high-quality international exchange and study abroad programs that bring the world together. We change lives, our alumni change the world. Be part of the change!

You will be part of a fast-paced, international, diverse, and collaborative team of professionals. CIEE operates the largest nonprofit network of study-abroad locations, with facilities and staff in 29 countries. Additionally, we help international participants from over 140 countries come to the USA each year. Committed to excellence and solving whatever problem the world throws at them, CIEE professionals work on international teams and are dedicated to advancing our 75-year-old mission to make the world a more peaceful place.

Who You Are

The Center Director of CIEE Tokyo will have the overall responsibility for the management of all aspects of the Center, overseeing the planning and delivery of all CIEE programs, recruiting, and developing the Center’s core team, and ensuring the highest levels of quality and customer satisfaction. The program portfolio is comprised of Semester, Full-year, and Short-term (Summer, January, and Custom) opportunities for pre-college, college, and post-graduate students. All CIEE programs are defined by the highest standards of educational quality, providing access to students of diverse backgrounds.

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