Job: Study Abroad Administrative Assistant – Princeton University (New Jersey)
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Posted by Jayme Tsutsuse (Kyoto-fu, 2013-Present). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: Administrative Assistant
Posted by: Princeton University
Location: Princeton, New Jersey
Application Deadline: Position open until filled
Overview:
Supporting the Director of Study Abroad, this position plays an important role in a busy office, serving as the first point of contact for all inquiries to the Office of International Programs (OIP). Must be knowledgeable about the Study Abroad Program (including undergraduate exchanges), the International Internship Program, Princeton in France, the German Summer Work Program, Bridge Year, and fellowship opportunities. In addition, must be able to direct inquiries to other offices and individuals as appropriate.
Autumn Widdoes at the Japan Writers Conference
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Autumn Widdoes (Okinawa, 2010 – present) is “a teacher, a writer, and a performance/hybrid-theater artist whose work explores the multiple intersections between written and spoken language and movement/dance.” She recently finished a dance theater video that will soon appear on her website, but you can also see it here. Her upcoming projects include a Nov. 2 lecture and workshop at the 2013 Japan Writers Conference titled “Performative Words: Writing for and Making Performance.” Here’s the official description:
Autumn Widdoes (photo by Melissa Campenile)
How do you enter into a new language with only the performative words that you know? This performace lecture will discuss how to create work for performance in Japan (performance art, poetic narratives for movement/dance theater, and plays), how to find both non-Japanese and Japanese collaborators/actors/performers to stage the work, and how to cultivate an audience, with a particular focus on doing this outside of the major cities and without networks. Additionally, we’ll discuss how to incorporate and enfold personal experience, the writing and unwriting of oneself into the texts, working with translations (and “anti translations”), and engaging with new language(s) and their complexities in one’s work without using it/them as simplistic ornamentation.
For details on the Japan Writers Conference, visit its site HERE.
To learn more about Autumn, visit her site HERE.
Job Fair: Career in Japan 2013 Australia (Sydney)
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Originally posted to the JETAA New South Wales FB group by Eden Law. Posted by Kim ‘Kay’ Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: Career in Japan 2013 Australia
Posted by: N/A
Type: N/A
Location: N/A
Salary: N/A
Start Date: N/A
Overview
Career in Japan 2013 Australia is a “Job fair for global-minded people in Australia in September! Companies will visit Sydney to recruit you for jobs in Japan!!”
Japanese companies are participating our job fair since they believe many talented people are found in Australia. We hope the job fair lead to your career and more global opportunities!
Date and Venue
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Sat. 14th 11:00-18:00
Sun. 15th 10:00-17:00
September 2013
@Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, Exhibition hall 6
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Points of our job fair
1.Many Japanese companies who are eager to hire global-minded candidates will participate the fair !
2.Some companies will hold interviews on the spot!
3.You can contact the participating companies in advance!
Job: Tutors / Summer Instructors – Student Support Services (Paterson, NJ)
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Via Indeed.com. Posted by Kim ‘Kay’ Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: Tutors / Summer Instructors – Student Support Services
Posted by: Passaic County Community College
Type: N/A
Location: Paterson, NJ
Salary: N/A
Start Date: N/A
Overview
The objective of the SSS Learning Center is to create an environment that allows program participants to receive supplemental instruction that aids in the successful completion of all registered courses.
We are currently seeking applicants with expertise in Math, English, and Science with the ability and desire to work with first generation college students and ESL populations. Preference will be given to candidates who are qualified to provide instruction in two or more of the specified content areas.
A Bachelor’s degree is preferred.
View and apply:
Job: Teachers & Tutors needed ASAP at Cabrini Immigrant Services (NYC)
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Via the Hunter College TESOL listserve. Posted by Kim ‘Kay’ Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: ESL Teachers and Tutors
Posted by: Cabrini Immigrant Services
Type: N/A
Location: New York, NY
Salary: N/A
Start Date: N/A
Overview
Join Cabrini to help improve the lives of immigrants through teaching ESL. They offer beginning, intermediate and advanced levels, and limit class-size to 15 students. Texts are provided, but teachers are given wide latitude for their curricula. Classes meet twice a week for two hours,
Mondays-Thursdays (one class/week teaching commitment required).
Class times are 10am-12 noon, 12:30-2:30 pm, and 6-8 pm.
The majority of the students speak Spanish or Chinese as their first language.
Cabrini Immigrant Services
139 Henry St.
NYC 10002
Contact ESOL Coordinator Joy Haas, at: jhaas789@gmail.com
Job: Director – Sales – Shire Pharmaceuticals (Tokyo)
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Thanks to JET alum Therese Stephens for sharing this listing, which is for the company where she works. Posted by Kim ‘Kay’ Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: Director Sales
Posted by: Shire Japan
Type: Full time, permanent
Location: Tokyo (Shinjuku-ku Ward)
Salary: N/A
Start Date: N/A
Overall purpose
To lead and manage the Japan Sales Team, and co-develop and implement in collaboration with the Marketing Team and Medical Team the Annual Business Plan for all Shire products within Japan. This will include setting annual sales targets, implementing agreed sales and marketing strategies and tactics, developing and monitoring sales activity targets, and ensuring that sales targets are achieved. Also responsible for recruiting, developing, and retaining the Sales Team
Responsibilities
As a member of the Shire Japan Management Team, and in collaboration with local and global team colleagues:
•Achieve the budgeted sales of all Sales Team promoted products, and any future Shire Japan products and to ensure expenses are managed in line with budget and forecast expectations
•Provide sales input into the Japan Annual Business Plan, marketing strategy, and long range planning process. Through this develop and communicate in a timely manner the Annual National Sales Plan
•Work with the various marketing and medical teams to co-develop an integrated Sales, Marketing, and Medical Brand Plan each year. Drive and champion the Sales Plans and strategies within the Sales Team. Read More
Job: Visiting Chair in Australian Studies, University of Tokyo
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Thanks to JET Alum Nic Klar (author of “My Mother is a Tractor”) for sharing this Aussie-relevant listing. Posted by Kim ‘Kay’ Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Position: Visiting Chair in Australian Studies
Posted by: The University of Tokyo
Type: 10 Months
Location: Tokyo
Salary: N/A
Start Date: October 2014-15 and/or 2015-16
Overview:
The University of Melbourne is now seeking applications for the 2014-15 and 2015-16 Visiting Chair in Australian Studies at the University of Tokyo. Applications must be submitted by 5pm (AEST) Friday 20 September 2013. For information about this significant academic role, please see the position description.
Open to: Australian citizens and permanent residents
Location: Centre for Pacific and American Studies, University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus
JQ Magazine: Book Review – ‘Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible’
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“As Gadget Girl is geared toward young adults (or more specifically, teenage girls), it is an easy read. But you get the sense that because of its diverse set of characters, it would make a good TV drama.” (GemmaMedia)
By Rashaad Jorden (Yamagata-ken, 2008-2010) for JQ magazine. Rashaad worked at four elementary schools and three junior high schools on JET, and taught a weekly conversion class in Haguro (his village) to adults. He completed the Tokyo Marathon in 2010, and was also a member of a taiko group in Haguro.
Sometimes, we’re just trying to find out where we belong.
That’s certainly the case with Aiko Cassidy, the teenage protagonist of JET Program alum Suzanne Kamata (Tokushima-ken, 1988-1990)’s latest novel, Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible. The 15-year-old daughter of a renowned sculptor, Aiko wants to develop her own identity, instead of being known as Laina Cassidy’s muse and suffering from a disability (cerebral palsy). Aiko has been secretly working on manga titled Gadget Girl, and she dreams of becoming a world famous manga artist—which would enable her to visit her father in Japan.
But instead of heading to the Land of the Rising Sun, Aiko is off to France for several days, as Laina has won the grand prize at the prestigious Prix de Paris. Although she’s still receiving the “Laina Cassidy’s muse” treatment, the City of Light does open up a new world for Aiko. For one, she develops a crush on a waiter named Hervé at the café she frequents. Aiko is also introduced to the spot where he parents met but more importantly, she learns the reason why her father is absent from her life.
Inspired by the movie The Song of Bernadette, Aiko and Laina head to Lourdes, where Aiko dreams of being cured. Instead, she hears a woman whisper “Forgive,” and Aiko uses that as a call to repair broken relationships in her life.
Job: Numerous Fellowship and Scholarship Opportunities at East-West Center (Hawaii)
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Thanks to Ariel Wyckoff for passing along these interesting opportunities which may be of interest to JET alumni! 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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Overview:
East-West Center is happy to announce the following opportunities for study and scholarships for the 2014 Academic Year:
OPPORTUNITIES FOR EWC AFFILIATION
EAST-WEST CENTER STUDENT AFFILIATE PROGRAM
Type of study: An opportunity for graduate students to participate in the residential, educational, leadership development and cultural programs at the East-West Center while pursuing a graduate degree at the University of Hawai’i.
Eligibility: Full-time graduate student status at the University of Hawai’i, or participation in a UH graduate exchange program; Open to students from all countries
Provisions: Discounted housing rate in EWC residence halls; Eligible for competitive EWC field study/travel grant awards
Application deadlines: November 1 for Spring 2014 start; April 4 and June 2 for Fall 2014 start.
EAST-WEST CENTER AFFILIATE SCHOLAR PROGRAM
Type of study: An opportunity for graduate students from universities around the world to have a short-term affiliation with the Center while working on research for a thesis or dissertation related to the Asia Pacific region, and to participate in the Center’s residential and educational programs.
Eligibility: Graduate students from universities world-wide
Application deadline: Received year-round
Job: Group Guides for Kakehashi Project (DC, Nashville, Chicago, Denver)
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Thanks to JET alum Ashley Greenidge who works for The Laurasian Institution for sharing this great JET-relevant listing! 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: Group Guide
Location: (Chicago, Denver, Washington D.C. or Nashville)
Type: Temp
Compensation:
- $2,250 for 10 days as group guide
- Transportation to/from major cities (either Chicago & Denver or Washington D.C. & Nashville) during the trip
- Transportation to/from the homestay location
- Meals and lodging during trip
Overview:
The Laurasian Institution of Seattle, WA is seeking guides for groups of 25 participants visiting the United States from Japan in October and November 2013. Groups will be comprised of 24 high school or university students and 1~2 adult chaperones. Groups will visit the United States for a period of 10 days, including sightseeing in major cities and a homestay in locations throughout the country.
Requirements:
- Native English speakers with highly functional Japanese abilities (minimum JLPT Level 2/N2 or equivalent)
- Background in education, youth exchange, and/or Japan-related work experience
- All-day time commitment for 10 days, including being on-call at night
- Experience with Japanese students and/or the Japanese school system
- Familiarity with Japanese health insurance procedures
- Residence in and knowledge of the geography, history and culture of at least one of the major cities (Chicago, Denver, Washington D.C. or Nashville)
- Ability to handle emergencies and work under pressure
- Strong communication skills, both oral and written
- Demonstrated experience as a leader
- Bachelor’s degree
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RocketNews24: Scowling mascot brings a little fame to Japan’s least popular prefecture
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Michelle Lynn Dinh (Shimane-ken, Chibu-mura, 2010–13) is an editor and writer for RocketNews24, a Japan-based site dedicated to bringing fun and quirky news from Asia to English speaking audiences.
Yoshida-kun, Shimane Prefecture’s snarky and very unhappy-looking mascot
Shimane Prefecture, ever heard of it? If your answer is a resounding “no,” you’re not alone. The oddly shaped prefecture stretching along the western coast of Japan is barely known within its own country, let alone abroad. But one disgruntled mascot is out to bring Shimane’s shortcomings to light, making fun of the prefecture’s lack of popularity and population, and giving the area a little boost in positive publicity online.
For the 95 percent of you who don’t know, Shimane is a prefecture in the Chugoku region of Japan. Its claim to fame is having the most elderly people of any other prefecture and the most centenarians. Year after year, Shimane battles it out with neighboring Tottori for the title of “least populated prefecture” and has repeatedly landed itself at the very bottom of lists ranking areas by popularity.
Return On JET-vestment: “This is Fukushima” Calendar 2014 Fundraiser
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Thanks to Ryan McDonald (Fukushima-ken, 2002-05) for sharing the below. Another great example of Return On JET-vestment:
Last year, I and two other ex-JETs, created a calendar called This Is Fukushima. We paid for it ourselves and took donations from other ALTs in Fukushima. We made 2,500 copies and sent them around the world to the media, government officials, and even royalty. The goal was to show that Fukushima is more than a reactor. There is no Fukushima disaster, but there was a disaster in Fukushima. Too many people hear the word Fukushima and think it’s only a nuclear reactor.
This is Fukushima Calendar (2013)
This year the theme will be people and interesting places. We already have a few people in mind that have and are continuing to help Fukushima. We are also going to have more photos of some of our unique festivals. We want to print 4,000 this time and have a larger version with one month per page.
There’s no question as to whether or not we can do it. We did already and can do it again. The only question is can we raise enough money to make it bigger and better. Any money raised over the goal will go to printing more calendars.
If you would like to donate, please go to GoFundMe.com
You can also look at some photos of Fukushima at http://www.ThisIsFukushima.org
- Ryan McDonald (USA)- (Fukushima-ken, 2002-05)
- Paul Sprigg (CA)– (Fukushima-ken, 2005–10)
- Henare Akurangi (NZ) – (Fukushima-ken, 2007–11)
2013 Kume Island Ha-ri-
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Posted by Benjamin Martin, a JET from 2008-2013 in Okinawa, publisher of the blog MoreThingsJapanese.com and author of the award-winning YA fantasy series Samurai Awakening (Tuttle).
The Ha-ri- races are a yearly event on Kume Island. This year they took place on June 12 at three locations around the island. This year I stuck to the Maja area where locals and students gathered together for a day of races and fun in the water.
While the races are the primary attraction, there is also generally a ball-toss game for the nursery school children and a tug-of-war. There are numerous races from both locals and school participants. At the Maja area, students from the local Nakazato Junior High, Misaki and Nakazato elementary schools, and students from Kumeshima High School all joined together in mixed and separate races.
This year I broke out my gopro to give you a closer look at participating in the Ha-ri- races. Thanks to a few friends and students who wore the camera along the way. Of course with plenty of water a few bucket wars broke out among the high school students, and not all of the boats made it back without a little extra water. Check out the video and pictures below, then come join us next year for this great event.
For more photos and video from this special event visit MoreThingsJapanese.com
Welcome “Kansai JET Alumni”!
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Thanks to former AJET Chair Matthew Cook (Osaka-fu, 2007-12) for sharing the good news. Great to see the JET alumni community expanding!
For more info about Kansai JET Alumni, see below:
- Website: http://kansai.jetalumni.org
- Facebook Organization Page: https://www.facebook.com/kansai.jetalumni
- Facebook Group Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/225984954222698/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/KansaiJETAlumni
- LinkedIn Organization page: http://www.linkedin.com/company/3306686?trk=tyah
- Linked in Group Page: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=5149145&mostPopular=&trk=tyah
WIT Life #248: Ralph Carr’s Fight for Japanese-American Justice
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WIT Life is a periodic series written by professional Writer/Interpreter/Translator Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03). She starts her day by watching Fujisankei’s newscast in Japanese, and here she shares some of the interesting tidbits and trends along with her own observations.
The bust in Sakura Square of former CO governor Ralph Carr, who fought for Japanese-American civil rights
My interpreting for a State Department energy-themed delegation brings me to Denver, Colorado. In the past I’ve written here about the Japanese connection at Sakura Square, where former governor Ralph Carr who took a stance against internment camps during WWII was honored with a bust in 1976. He also was named “Person of the Century” by the Denver Post in 1999. Most recently, his contributions have been recognized by naming the new Colorado Judicial Center after him. This is a 695,767 square-foot building housing the Colorado Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, Supreme Court Law Library, the State Court Administrator, the Colorado Attorney General and the Colorado Public Defender. It seems like the perfect tribute to a past politician who sacrificed his political career rather than betray the rule of law.
Carr was the 19th governor of Colorado who served from 1939 to 1943. He was in office when FDR forcibly resettled residents of Japanese descent from the West Coast to a camp at Amache near Granada, Colorado. The relocation included Nisei who were U. S. citizens by virtue of being born in this country. While many politicians Read More
