Job: Public Relations Staff at Temple University Japan (Tokyo)
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Thanks to JET alum journalist Tom Baker for passing this on. Application due November 30, 2013. Posted by blogger and podcaster Jon Dao (Toyama-ken, 2009-12). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: Public Relations Staff, Communications and Marketing Support
Type: Full-Time
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Salary: Commensurate with experience, plus transportation.
Overview:
TUJ is seeking a staff who will be mainly responsible for public affairs of the university including raising name awareness and improving the brand image of Temple University, Japan Campus (TUJ) and Temple University (TU) among the general public in Japan through non-paid publicity and maintaining relations with various media outlets.
Requirements:
- Minimum 3 years of working experience in a public relations and/or marketing position
- Working knowledge of the Japanese and international media
- Strong interest in education, especially international, liberal arts higher education
- Solid writing and editing skills in Japanese and English
- Experience with social media marketing is preferable
- Experience of studying at a US college is a plus
- English and Japanese proficiency in writing, reading, and speaking
- Ability to think creatively and to take the initiative in pursuing set goals
- Superb communication skills (need to build good relationships internally and externally, e.g. with media, and other departments within TUJ and the main campus in Philadelphia)
Application:
For details of the responsibilities and qualification and how to apply, please visit TUJ website.
Job: Back Office Operator (NYC)
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Via Actus Consulting. If you apply, please make sure to mention in your cover letter that you learned of the listing via JETwit. Posted by blogger and podcaster Jon Dao (Toyama-ken, 2009-12). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: Back Office Operator
Type: Full-Time
Location: Midtown NYC
Salary: Starting salary: $28K (DOE) + possible bonus(twice a year — average 2 weeks’ salary each time)
Overview:
As a back office operator, you’ll be mainly responsible for cash management between the bank and custodian, contact agent banks on unsettled or unmatched trades, wire transfers, and settlement of daily trades. Preparing daily, monthly and other regular reports. Some reports must be prepared in Japanese. Other administrative duties will be included as needed. Read More
【RocketNews24】Japanese elementary school teachers may tell you “5 x 100 = 500” is wrong
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Posted by Michelle Lynn Dinh (Shimane-ken, Chibu-mura, 2010–13), editor and writer for RocketNews24. The following article was written by Master Blaster, writing team for RocketNews24, a Japan-based site dedicated to bringing fun and quirky news from Asia to English speaking audiences.
Here’s an elementary school math question for you all:
Apples are sold for 100 yen each. If you buy 5 what is the total amount?
If you said “5 × 100 = 500” then I’m sorry but you just flunked second grade math in Japan… if there were only one question all year. The reason is an old teaching method that is employed in elementary and middle schools throughout the country. It’s also a method that many, such as a blogger by the name of Uncorrelated, want stopped as it leads to strange logic where six times seven does not always equal 42 and five times 100 might not equal 500.
Job: Study Abroad Advisor/Coordinator Dickinson College (PA)
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Posted by Jayme Tsutsuse (Kyoto-fu, 2013-Present), organizer of Cross-Cultural Kansai. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: Study Abroad Advisor/Coordinator
Posted by: Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, PA
Overview:
This position includes responsibilities that are critically important to the educational mission and daily operations of education abroad at an academically rigorous liberal arts college that emphasized global education. The position includes selective administrative duties and most student advising for a wide variety of programs: Dickinson’s own long-standing semester and academic year programs, partner programs, non-Dickinson programs, summer programs, and selected short-term programs. In addition to the specific duties and functions outlined below, the Study Abroad Coordinator/Advisor plays a lead role in outreach, individual and group advising, pre-departure orientation, re-entry programming, and training/supervising peer advisors. The position also serves a key role in fielding a variety of questions regarding study abroad from many constituents (students, faculty, administrators and parents).
Job: Study Abroad Advisor, S. Dakota State University (Brookings, SD)
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Posted by Jayme Tsutsuse (Kyoto-fu, 2013-Present), organizer of Cross-Cultural Kansai. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: Study Abroad Advisor
Posted by: S. Dakota State University
Location: Brookings, SD
Applications due December 13, 2013.
Overview:
In a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, the Study Abroad advisor will provide individualized advice and guidance to students interested in studying abroad helping them to choose the program best suited to their needs. The Study Abroad advisor will also provide outstanding service to students before, during and after their educational experiences abroad. This is a 12 month position that is benefits eligible.
Job: Coordinator, Educational Initiatives Undergraduate Education at University of California-Riverside
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Posted by Jayme Tsutsuse (Kyoto-fu, 2013-Present), organizer of Cross-Cultural Kansai. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: Coordinator, Educational Initiatives Undergraduate Education
Posted by: University of California-Riverside
Location: Riverside, CA
Salary: $44,150 – $67,336
Type: full-time
Overview:
Undergraduate Education provides students and instructors with resources that promote academic excellence and student success. The Office of Undergraduate Education serves as the central administration for a number of organizational units across campus that enhances the undergraduate student experience.
Job Duties:
Under general supervision, reporting to the Assistant Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (AVP/UE), the Educational Initiatives Coordinator will develop, coordinate, implement and evaluate initiatives and programs for (1) Faculty-Led Summer Study Abroad Programs and (2) Undergraduate Research Programs.
Job: Defense News Assistant/Staff Reporter at Asahi Shimbun (DC)
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Just saw this posted to the JETAA DC google group. LAST DATE TO APPLY NOV. 30. Posted by blogger and podcaster Jon Dao (Toyama-ken, 2009-12). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: Defense News Assistant / Staff Reporter
Type: Full-Time
Location: Washington, DC
Salary: 32,000 – 36,000
Overview:
Primary duties include assisting our Washington-based defense correspondent by attending daily press briefings, conducting thorough background research, gathering news and views, arranging and conducting interviews, and closely following developments in U.S. defense policy and international security affairs. However, candidates must be flexible and willing to work with other correspondents on non-defense issues when necessary. Some administrative support, such as transcribing interviews and other assignments, is also required. Some domestic travel may be required. Read More
Job: Purchasing Department; Food Safety / GMP Position QA (NJ)
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A JET-relevant listing received directly from the company. New York Mutual Trading has posted jobs to JETwit previously as well. Posted by blogger and podcaster Jon Dao (Toyama-ken, 2009-12). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: Purchasing Department; Food Safety / GMP Position QA
Type: Full-Time
Location: 25 Knickerbocker Road Moonachie, NJ 07074
Salary: Salary dependent upon experience and qualifications; Medical Insurance (premiums will be paid by the company); Paid vacations (after 1 year) and holidays
Overview:
- Responsible for managing and implementing the food safety program standard with regards to municipal, federal regulatory, and safety requirements. It includes: HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point), GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices), and ISO/SQF auditing standards, and new quality assurance programs.
- Required to learn and perform basic purchasing works, such as import document, cost calculation, inventory control, and work with warehouse department.
- Oversee and direct facility inspections and conduct quality audits.
- Continually informing management and employees on regulations pertaining to daily operations.
- Setting standards and maintaining consistent liaise between vendors to obtain documentation.
- Maintain and file all documents pertaining to quality and/or government regulations.
I’ll Make It Myself!: Millet Muffins
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L.M. Zoller (CIR Ishikawa-ken, Anamizu, 2009-11) is the editor of The Ishikawa JET Kitchen: Cooking in Japan Without a Fight. Ze works in international student exchange; writes I’ll Make It Myself!, a blog about food culture in Japan and the US; 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 on LinkedIn.
Check out the rice section in your local supermarket in Japan for other grains, and you’re often find zakkoku (雑穀) / kokumotsu (穀物), mixed grains and beans, which often includes millet. Millet is called awa (粟) or kibi (キビ) and is often sold by itself as uruchikibi (うるちキビ ) or mochi kibi (モチキビ).
JETAA Singapore welcomes home recent returnees
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Thanks to JETAA Singapore’s Nathalie Ng for sharing this update, originally written by Shane Wong:
JETAA Singapore had a simple but fun welcome back reception for recent returnees of the JET Programme on 26 Oct 2013 at the Minds Café Funan Centre. Opened to all members and friends, the event was also attended by staff of the Embassy of Japan in Singapore and CLAIR Singapore.
After a brief round of introduction, smaller groups were formed where the chatter continued over games, free-flow drinks and snacks. It was a good time for members to reminiscence their time on the JET Programme with the recent returnees sharing their experiences working and living in Japan.
Congratulations on successfully completing your stint on the Programme, and welcome home!
And thank you, Akita, Aomori, Miyagi, Shimane, and Tottori for hosting and sharing your cultures with our JETs. We hope, as always, that this would be the beginning of closer ties between Japan and Singapore.
Austin Moore beautifies Japan (starting with his own house)
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Posted by Tom Baker (Chiba-ken, 1989-90)
The January 2013 edition of the “JET Plaza” section of CLAIR Forum magazine included an article by Austin Moore, who came to Japan in 1984 on the Monbusho English Fellow (MEF) program, a forerunner of the JET Program. In it, he mentioned his work to restore a 145-year-old house in Hino, Shiga Prefecture, which led the owners of several other old houses in the neighborhood to spruce up their buildings as well.
Now, the Wall Street Journal has taken notice. According to an article this month by Yuka Hayashi, “Mr. Moore has established himself as a key member of the community, serving on its preservation society and helping promote tourism. Following his renovation, three families have moved into the abandoned houses and others have reintroduced traditional features to their homes… ‘Mr. Moore came from the outside and saw the beauty of Hino and its old homes that the locals had grown blind to,’ said Ryojun Manda, director of the local history museum. ‘He showed us how to breathe life back into old houses and make them shine again.'”
You can read the full article HERE and view a gorgeous photo essay about the house HERE.
Around Japan in 47 Curries: Nagano Souvenirs
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Tom Baker (Chiba, 1989-91) is writing a 47-part series of posts on his Tokyo Tom Baker blog, in which he samples and comments on a curry from a different prefecture almost every week. Here’s an excerpt from his 15th installment, in which he visits Nagano Prefecture and brings back some curry souvenirs:
Like neighboring Yamanashi, Nagano is a big producer of fruit. The prefecture is especially proud of its apples, which are often used (usually in pureed form) to sweeten curries. But instead of apple curry, I bought some beef curry made with the meat of apple-fed cows. While I was at it, I also got some curry made with yeast-fed Nagano pork.
Japan News: Tokyo to increase number of JETs significantly in 2014 in anticipation of Olympics
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Great JET news from The Japan News (i.e., Yomiuri Shimbun)! Apparently Tokyo Governor Inose also announced that Tokyo will increase the number of its hiring JET participants from 5 to 100 in 2014, and to 200 from 2015. Also, from conversations I’ve had, it sounds like representatives of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government developed a very positive impression of JET based on various interactions they had with JETAANY during visits to NYC.
Tokyo English teachers to study abroad for Olympics
November 7, 2013
The Yomiuri Shimbun
The Tokyo metropolitan government will send about 200 young English teachers from middle and high schools to English-speaking countries every year for three months to brush up their English teaching abilities in anticipation of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, sources said Thursday.
The program, designed to beef up the English ability of teachers as well as their teaching abilities, will start in the next academic year in April. Many foreign visitors are expected to come to Tokyo during the Olympics and Paralympics in 2020, according to the sources.
The number of assistant language teachers (ALTs) at metropolitan-run high schools will also be increased.
The metropolitan government plans to appropriate about ¥1 billion in next fiscal year’s budget. Through improvement in instruction capacities at schools, it plans to improve students’ language abilities, the sources explained.
Currently there are about 3,000 English teachers at public middle schools and high schools in Tokyo. Of them, about 200 teachers in their third year of employment will be sent to overseas universities and other educational institutions in English-speaking countries every year. They will attend English lessons and learn English teaching methods during the three-month period.
The metropolitan government also plans to increase the number of ALTs at metropolitan high schools, about 200 at present, to 300 in the next academic year and 400 in the academic year of 2015.
The Tokyo government plans to utilize the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program, an international exchange program coordinated by the central government for local governments to invite young foreign nationals to teach English as assistants.
JQ Magazine: JETAA USA Earthquake Relief Fund Aids Recovery
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Taylor Anderson Memorial Fund founder Andy Anderson (center) with members of the JET Alumni Association of New York at Columbia University, Oct. 30, 2013. (Courtesy of JETAA New York)
By C-M Daeley (Saga-ken, 2008-2011) for JQ magazine. C-M is a poet, rap lyricist, and travel enthusiast currently working as an English teacher in Tokyo. For a look at some of his other writing, poetry and lyrics, check out his blog at http://spikedaeley.wordpress.com.
With today’s 24-hour global news cycle, it is sometimes difficult to keep even the most severe events in public memory. The Great East Japan Earthquake that struck on March 11, 2011 has not received much recent coverage in global news, but the issues faced by those still rebuilding remain monumental. Fortunately, there has been significant international aid from a number of sources, one of which is the JETAA USA Earthquake Relief Fund. This grant has raised almost USD $90,000 and has been used to provide seed funding to assist grassroots programs in areas severely impacted by the earthquake.
Due to the complex nature of fund allocation, this article will focus mainly on projects and programs directly supported through JETAA funds. However, it is significant to note that the Earthquake Relief Fund was only one of several avenues used to bring aid to the region and that, to date, roughly $500,000 has been raised through JET-affiliated groups and organizations worldwide. Jim Gannon (Ehime-Ken, 1992-94), current executive director at the Japan Center for International Exchange in New York, and Jessyca Livingston (Hokkaido, 2003-06), one of the three JETAA USA Country Representatives serving during the immediate aftermath and current JET Program coordinator at the Consulate-General of Japan in Denver, spoke about some of the initiatives the Earthquake Relief Fund has helped support.
“It is very difficult to give a concise yet comprehensive picture of what the JETAA funds have done,” Gannon explained. “The best way to describe it is that they have played a catalytic role in supporting some key projects in the early stage that have been supported by a range of others in more generous fashion once they proved their merits. JETAA cannot take full credit for all of the successes, but it did play an important role in getting things moving.” He also noted, “The real heroes are these incredible people from Tohoku who have championed these projects, the inspirational young people who have relocated to Tohoku to help operate them, and those who have been shuttling back and forth from Tokyo and elsewhere to help formulate and drive these initiatives.”
After a national discussion and several rounds of voting in each of JETAA USA’s 19 chapters, a final decision was made about how the fund should be allocated. “In the end, it was very obvious that chapters found it important to support education-related efforts in those areas most affected,” Livingston said.
Job: Coordinator, Office of Study Abroad Position- Mississippi State University
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Posted by Jayme Tsutsuse (Kyoto-fu, 2013-Present), organizer of Cross-Cultural Kansai. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: Coordinator, Office of Study Abroad Position
Posted by: Mississippi State University
Location: Mississippi State University, MS
Type: full-time
Overview:
The position is responsible for coordinating all aspects of education abroad, including university risk management, promotion of study abroad programming, advising students of study abroad opportunities, as well facilitating all study abroad programs. The objective of this position is to encourage globalization on campus by expanding students’ academic opportunities in study abroad/exchange programs at universities overseas.
