Aug 2

Job: Onsite Lead Concierge – John Paul (New York, USA)

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Job Title: Onsite Lead Concierge
Posted by: John Paul
Location: New York, USA
Contract: Full-time

Thanks to JET alumna, Valerie Stewart (Saga-ken) for passing along the following opening with her company:

Thanks for our dedicated employees at the forefront and behind the scenes, we continue to excel as a global leader in services delivered by Delivering excellent service and innovative products, and we’re looking for an  Onsite Lead  Corporate  Concierge to help Fulfill that.

John Paul is revolutionizing loyalty by recognizing brands with their customers. Our customer and employee offers a wide range of solutions including Concierge Services, Travel Services, Event Management, and Unique Customer Engagement Strategies, delivered through phone, email, SMS, Chat and Digital channels. John Paul is part of the Accor Group, a worldwide leader in hospitality. To read and learn more about John Paul, visit our website at www.johnpaul.com.

The Employee Loyalty Corporate Caretaker is responsible for the field and is responsible for a wide range of personal and professional requirements for this client account. Duties include extensive planning, event tickets, gift/restaurant recommendations and coordination services. Must be energetic, polished and creative. You will join a dynamic team, eager to offer a service that meets the highest expectations of our customers.

This position reports directly to the Regional Concierge Manager. The concierge will be stationed at our client site in New York, NY.

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Jul 31

Job: Producer – TV Asahi (Washington, DC)

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Job Title: Producer
Posted by: TV Asahi, Washington, D.C. Bureau
Location: Washington, DC
Contract: Full-time

Here’s a job received directly from the TV station:

Overview:

The Washington, D.C. Bureau of TV Asahi, a nation-wide Japanese TV network (similar to ABC, NBC or CBS) is currently seeking candidates for a full-time Producer.

Producer position:

The Producer will assist the Bureau in its news-gathering, reporting, and production activities for news broadcasts in Japan.  Expected duties include, but are not limited to:

• Supporting correspondents and cameramen, both individually and alongside fellow producers
• Researching topics of interest, filming, and communicating/negotiating both inside and outside the company
• Researching, planning, and assisting with travel for feature stories
• Helping fellow producers with news-gathering, scheduling, and other tasks
• Assisting with fieldwork and business trips
• Performing other duties and responsibilities as required or requested by management

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Jul 30

Job: Teaching Position – ETS Source (Nagoya, Aichi, Japan)

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Job Title: Teaching Position
Posted by: ETS Source
Location: Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Contract: Full-time

Thanks to JET alum, Gajen Sivakumar (Oita-ken) for the following job opening at his company:

ELT Source is looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our team to teach at a private Senior high school in Nagoya area starting September 2019.

We are a small energetic company with an opening for a position which offers an above-average salary, holidays of over 2 months a year, strong support and great schools to teach at. All candidates must be a native English speaker and have achieved a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree. Candidates with prior ALT experience and or degrees in Education, English, Linguistics or Japanese studies are preferred but not required.

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Jul 29

JQ Magazine: JQ&A with Director Shinya Tsukamoto at JAPAN CUTS

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“In the film Killing, I don’t necessarily have one political message that’s strongly pursued, and I want the audience to figure out the film’s message for themselves. Personally speaking, I find it to be incredibly frightening today of what the Japanese government is doing.” (Courtesy of Shinya Tsukamoto)

By Lyle Sylvander (Yokohama-shi, 2001-02) for JQ magazine. Lyle used to work in New York City for Merchant Ivory Productions and the National Geographic Channel. He currently teaches history, international relations and film at an international high school in Shanghai, China.

Shinya Tsukamoto is a Japanese filmmaker most famous for his Tetsuo trilogy of horror/sci-fi films: Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989), Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992), and Tetsuo: the Bullet Man (2009). Other films include Hiruko the Goblin (1991), Bullet Ballet (1998), and Tokyo Fist (1995). He has also acted in most of his own films as well as those of others, most recently in Martin Scorsese’s Silence (2016). 

Last week, Tsukamoto made a special appearance at Japan Society in New York City for their annual JAPAN CUTS film festival to receive their prestigious CUT ABOVE Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film, as well as to speak at the East Coast premiere of his latest film, Killing. In this exclusive interview, JQ spoke with the director about violence and politics in his work, lifelong influences, and the story behind the name of his most enduring creation. (Translation by Aiko Masubuchi.)

You have stated that Killing was made in response to the violence you see today in society. All of your previous films have dealt with violence in one way or another—how is your position towards violence different in this film than in others?

When I was little, and for a long time, of course there were some violent things that happened in Japan, but mostly speaking, the violence was outside Japan and Japan was a country that would try to avoid war. It was that way for a long period of time. So, in my earlier films, the violence I was depicting was more fantastical. But now, times have changed: Japan is turning into a country that is getting ready to go to war, and so I could no longer depict violence through a fantastical lens—I needed to depict violence as something realistic and scary and use it as a warning, and so could no longer depict violence the same way.

Does this mean that your film is in response to the Abe administration’s recent foreign policy and re-militarization of Japan?

In the film, I don’t necessarily have one political message that’s strongly pursued, and I want the audience to figure out the film’s message for themselves. Personally speaking, I find it to be incredibly frightening today of what the Japanese government is doing.

How does your version of Nobi (Fires on the Plain) differ from Kon Ichikawa’s classic version of the same anti-war story?

I am a huge fan of Kon Ichikawa’s film Nobi, and I first saw it when I was in high school. I thought it was a fantastic anti-war statement and incredibly moving. In fact, the films I made as a teenager were greatly influenced by it. What I like about Ichikawa’s film is that he brings the camera into the internal darkness of the characters. Even though the setting of the original story is in the Philippines, Ichikawa’s film was shot in Japan. But what struck me in the original story was the beautiful nature and the landscapes of the Philippines, which contrasted the horror of what the soldiers were doing to each other. To me, it seemed important to have the Philippines’ beautiful nature as a backdrop, so the way we approached the film visually was quite different.

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Jul 29

Job: Representative – H.I.S International Tours Inc. (West LA, CA)

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Job Title: Representative, Global Marketing
Posted by: AnimeNYC
Location: West LA, CA
Contract: Full-time

Here’s a job received directly from the company:

POSITION SUMMARY

This position is responsible for developing, building, and managing new products as well as updating existing products to increase the local customer base with an eye towards increased profitability. This position is also responsible for helping to strategize on how to expand the company’s client base in the local market.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Primary Job Functions (80%)

Helps strategize on how to expand clientele in the local market

• Provides ideas and strategies to expand the company’s presence in the local market.

Promotes Vacation Packages

• Manages and maintains the contents of the land tour package website/hisgo up-to-date in order to maintain a user-friendly and attractive environment for local customers with an eye on increasing profitability.
• Develops and publishes bi-annual catalogs of vacation packages with signature products from each destination offered.
• Gathers information and photographs to complement each tour and uses various attractive media to pass them on to the customer.
• Attends travel-related seminars and conventions to gather information.

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Jul 23

Job: Interpreter – AnimeNYC (New York, NY, USA)

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Job Title: Interpreter for AnimeNYC, November 15-17, 2019
Posted by: AnimeNYC
Location: New York, NY, USA
Contract: Full-time

AnimeNYC is looking for interpreters for their annual conference:

INTERPRETERS

“Interpretation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.” – Anthony Burgess

Anime NYC has hosted over 50 guests from Japan over the past two years, and as our guest list continues to grow, we’re looking for talented individuals who can help interpret for Japanese guests coming to our event. Do you have Japanese language skills and want to be part of the Anime NYC team? Please read on for more details, and then fill out the application below!

We’re bringing on two levels of interpreters, and all Anime NYC’s interpreter roles are paid positions

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Jul 22

Job: Editorial Assistant – Springer Nature (New York, NY, USA)

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Job Title: Editorial Assistant: Physics, Materials Science, and Astronomy
Posted by: Springer Nature
Location: New York, NY
Contract: Full-time

Thanks to JET alum, Sanaa Ali-Virani (Tokyo-to) for the following job opening with her company:

This is an entry-level job good for getting into the publishing industry. No particular scientific knowledge is required (but interest in science and/or familiarity with the world of science research would help you secure the job). No foreign language skill is required, but experience working with people across countries and cultures is a definite plus. (If you do want to practice your Japanese, opportunities do occasionally arise.)

This is the job I am currently vacating; please don’t hesitate to reach out to me (sanaa.alivirani@gmail.com) for further details, including information about the Editors you would be supporting.

JOB DUTIES

Under limited supervision, the Editorial Assistant provides administrative and editorial support to Publishing Editor(s). Specific responsibilities include:

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Jul 20

Job: Curriculum Trainer – International Foreign Students Association (Saitama or Osaka, Japan)

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Job Title: Curriculum Trainer
Posted by: International Foreign Students Association
Location: Saitama or Osaka, Japan
Contract: Full-time

Here’s a job passed along to us:

弊社の幼児英語教育カリキュラムは、7万人以上の子供たちが学んでいます。子供が好きで英語教育に携わりたい方を募集いたします。

More than 70,000 children are learning our infant English education curriculum. We are looking for people who like children and want to engage in English education.

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Jul 19

Job: Japanese Instructor – Hills Learning (New York, NY)

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Job Title: Japanese Instructor
Posted by: Hills Learning
Location: New York, NY
Contract: Part-time

Here’s a job passed along to us:

Hills Learning, a professional language school with a reputation for quality education in Asian languages, is looking to recruit part-time teachers for their core languages: Japanese.
Our main center is located next to Grand Central.

We are looking for part-time language teachers with a passion for sharing their cultures, and an aptitude for teaching their native languages. Our mission is to “inspire the confidence to communicate in a foreign language, stimulate motivation to achieve each individual’s goals, and encourage a lifetime of language learning.”

RESPONSIBILITIES

• work with director to develop creative and effective lessons plans
• weekly updates on classes and progress
• preparation of own materials, lesson plans and homework while coordinating with school on curriculum and assessment requirements
• hour commitments vary per job, however, our busiest hours are either weekday evenings / weekends, or sometimes mornings
• teaching experience a must

Required experience:

• Teaching Japanese: 2 years or equivalent

Required education:

• Bachelor’s

Required language:

• Japanese (native level)

Application Process: For any inquires or to apply please email <recruit@hillslearning.com>

Jul 18

Justin’s Japan: JAPAN CUTS at Japan Society

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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.

The largest festival of contemporary Japanese cinema in North America, this year’s JAPAN CUTS at Japan Society serves up 42 films from July 19-28, featuring more than 20 guest filmmakers and talent in person for daily post-screening Q&As.

“This 13th edition of JAPAN CUTS provides testament to the continued vitality of contemporary Japanese cinema with a wide array of films by emerging filmmakers who dare to take formal and thematic risks,” says Kazu Watanabe, Japan Society Deputy Director of Film.

“They are paired with a roster of veteran directors who similarly began their career in the spirit of creative innovation and who continue to expand their vision in new directions,” he continues. “Together, they tackle stories about existential ennui, class conflict and social discrimination through a range of filmmaking practices that continually subvert expectations and expand our notion of what Japanese cinema is.”

The Opening Film on July 19 is the U.S. premiere of Can’t Stop the Dancing, an office comedy-road trip-musical directed by Waterboys helmer Shinobu Yaguchi, featuring a breakout performance by star Ayaka Miyoshi. The festival’s Centerpiece Presentation on July 24 is the East Coast premiere of Killing, a subversive samurai drama and meditation on the nature of violence by internationally renowned cult director Shinya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo: The Iron Man), who will be presented with the 2019 CUT ABOVE Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film prior to the screening. Tsukamoto will also introduce a special 35mm presentation of his 1998 black-and-white classic Bullet Ballet on July 25.

The Closing Film on July 28 is the North American premiere of director Yuko Hakota’s remarkable debut feature Blue Hour, a comedic drama about rural homecoming and reinvention starring festival guests Kaho and Eun-kyung Shim.

For more information and tickets, visit www.japansociety.org/JAPANCUTS.

Jul 18

Job: Associate Fellow – Kyushu National Museum (Fukuoka, Japan)

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Job Title: Associate Fellow – Multilingual Support (English)
Posted by: Kyushu National Museum
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Contract: Full-Time

Thanks to JET alum, Lee Sujin (Fukuoka-ken) for the following job opening at the Kyushu National Museum:

Employment Period: October 1, 2019 – March 31, 2020 *Contract is renewed on a yearly basis up to three years, and reappointment after September 30, 2022 will be on a case‐by‐case basis.

Jul 17

Job: Customer Service Specialist – InsideJapan Tours Ltd. (Nagoya, Aichi)

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Job Title: Customer Service Specialist
Posted by: InsideJapan Tours Ltd.
Location: Nagoya, Aichi
Contract: Full-Time

Here’s a job sent to us directly from the company:

DESCRIPTION 

Customer support is at the heart of what we do. IAT is founded upon principles of excellence in and the expansion of this department is a continuation towards the company’s goal to provide an unrivalled experience on the ground for all our customers.

We are a fun and enthusiastic team, and this is a great opportunity for someone who wants to work in a bilingual environment and learn about and deliver great customer service to visitors to Japan from the UK, USA and Australia. This is a challenging role, but you will have lots of support and guidance and it is incredibly rewarding to help our customers have great experiences in Japan.

You will be the 6th member of this winning team which contributes so much to our great customer satisfaction record: 98% of our customers rate their trips as ‘good’ or ‘excellent’.

You will be working with the operations team in Nagoya and with travel consultants from our offices in the UK, USA, Australia and Nagoya to provide support to our customers travelling in Japan in line with our company values and ethos. Your aim is to help our customers have a great experience and to become repeat customers for us or want to recommend us to their friends.

It is going to be busy so you will need to be able to work under pressure and of course you will be talking to customers so you will need excellent communication and negotiation skills.

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Jul 16

Job: Administrative Assistant – Embassy of Japan (Washington DC, USA)

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Job Title: Administrative Assistant
Posted by: Embassy of Japan
Location: Washington DC, USA
Contract: Full-Time

Thanks to JETAADC for passing along the following opportunity:

The Embassy of Japan is seeking a highly motivated, team-oriented individual for the position of Administrative Assistant at the Management and Coordination Section. This individual is primarily responsible for secretarial duties for the Minister and diplomats in the Management and Coordination Section.

Application Process: To see the full listing, please click here: https://www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/english/html/job-m&c-assistant.html

Jul 15

Job: Temporary Assistant to the JET Program Coordinator – Consulate General of Japan in Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)

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Job Title: Temporary Assistant to the JET Program Coordinator
Posted by: Consulate General of Japan in Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Contract: Full-Time

Thanks to the  Consulate General of Japan in Los Angeles for passing along this temporary position:

About the Position

The Consulate General of Japan in Los Angeles is seeking a talented, hard-working, organized individual to assist the JET Program Coordinator during the height of recruitment season this fall. This is a temporary contract position which will most likely be full-time for the duration of 34 business days, to take place from approximately September 10 – October 28, 2019. Wages are non-negotiable and do not cover any taxes you may be responsible for later (social security, etc) or parking/transportation.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist with JET-related tasks and responsibilities, particularly when the Program Coordinator is out of the office. These tasks include but are not limited to:
  • Answering phone calls and email inquiries from prospective JET applicants
  • Recording and processing data collected during recruiting and information sessions
  • Mailing information to relevant parties and organizations
• Recruit for the JET Program at career fairs and/or information sessions
• Work with consulate staff and outside organizations to assist in the planning and execution of Japan-related events, talks, lectures, and official consulate functions.
• Assist the director and other consuls in charge of the Japan Information and Culture Center (JICC) as deemed necessary

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Jul 14

Job: Match Teacher Residency – Charles Sposato Graduate School of Education (Boston, Massachusetts)

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Job Title: 2019-2020 Match Teacher Residency
Posted by: Charles Sposato Graduate School of Education
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Contract: Full-Time

Here’s a job received directly from Match Education:

Want to be a game-changing rookie teacher in a high-performing urban public school?

We think teaching is the hardest and most important job in the world – a job that demands highly focused and intensive preparation. Start your teaching career off right by becoming a Match Teacher Resident and graduate student in the Charles Sposato Graduate School of Education. We’re actively seeking our next cohort of aspiring elementary, middle and high school teachers.