Japan Info e-Newsletter July 2010
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The July 2010 edition of JapanInfo is now available online: http://editor.ne16.com/he/vo.aspx?FileID=1eebd4a0-af80-4be3-8945-42739cf4d675&m=1a93644da75eb849a0cfdf023ccba12e&MailID=12891461
JapanInfo is published by the Consulate General of Japan in New York/Japan Information Center and is a great source of info for Japan-related things going on in New York and the surrounding area.
Job: Business Development Associate, Unspecified Non-Profit Organization (New York)
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Job posting by Lauren Sethney (Niigata-shi CIR, 2000-2003). Lauren serves as the Program Director at the Japan-America Society in Dallas-Fort Worth.
via MAX Consulting Group, Inc.
Location: Mid-town, Manhattan NY
Area Industry: Non-Profit Organization
Title: Business Development Associate
Job Description: 1 year long Temporary Assignment
Primary Duties: Discover companies willing to invest in Japan, especially in Service and Environment industry. Attend trade shows and visit potential companies. Follow up and assist those companies willing to develop business in Japan.
Secondary Duties: To assist alliance between Japan and the US in high-tech industry, bring American corporate employees to Japan and vice versa and coordinate business meetings. Assist promoting export business from Japan. Sales experience is preferable but not a must. Proficiency in Japanese is preferable, but not a must. Some business trips.
Please email your resume to info@maxjob.com or call 212-949-6660.
Job: Assistant Director, East Asia & Pacific Unit of the Institute of International Education (D.C.)
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Job posting by Lauren Sethney (Niigata-shi CIR, 2000-2003). Lauren serves as the Program Director at the Japan-America Society in Dallas-Fort Worth.
Via Idealist.org
The Institute of International Education seeks an Assistant Director for the East Asia & Pacific Unit.
The Assistant Director (AD) provides leadership and supervision for a team of regional program staff who administer core Fulbright U.S. and Visiting Scholar and related programs for designated world areas. AD roles include carrying out a program portfolio with daily operational responsibilities, managing regional program staff and workflows including co-supervising positions when needed, maintaining a positive team approach, coaching and monitoring performance and collaborating with other managers to assure high quality administration of programs.
Major Responsibilities:
•Manage and oversee core U.S. and Visiting Scholar programs for East Asia and the Pacific, including U.S. awards catalog preparation and application goal setting, recruitment, peer review, candidate processing, affiliation, grant management, program budget analysis and reporting, in a manner that promotes teamwork, collaboration and flexibility within and across staff units
•Administer a program caseload in coordination with regional program staff and according to current policies, procedures and technology tools; maintain compliance with applicable regulations
•Communicate effectively with Director of Scholar Programs on program and staff status and issues; collaborate to coordinate and share experience between programs
•Exercise leadership and supervision of staff, make day-to-day decisions on operations and coordinate responsibilities within world areas, conduct performance evaluations, support professional development of staff, conduct hiring process for approved positions, resolve management and personnel issues
Qualifications:
•Masters’ degree;
•Seven years or more of substantial program management experience;
•Demonstrated effectiveness in supervising and training staff;
•Knowledge and understanding of higher education systems in the U.S. and abroad;
•Ability to work effectively with management teams and to build effective teams;
•Excellent interpersonal, decision-making, implementation and follow through skills; ability to adapt to changing organizational needs and a fast-paced work environment;
•Background in international higher education exchange; living experience and studies relevant to East Asia and the Pacific, particularly China, preferred.
How to Apply:
Please email resume, cover letter and salary history to cies-hr@iie.org
Include the position name and unit in the subject of your email. No phone calls, please.
For a complete job description, please visit http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Job/388072-152.
Job: English Language Teacher, Unnamed Private School (Hokkaido)
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Job posting by Lauren Sethney (Niigata-shi CIR, 2000-2003). Lauren serves as the Program Director at the Japan-America Society in Dallas-Fort Worth.
Via Liz (Larson) Sheffield (Sapporo, 1993-1995)
Are you looking for an opportunity to help build an English program from the ground up for elementary school age children?
A new, private school located in Hokkaido will open in September 2011. The school is dedicated to providing a place for young children to experience an international atmosphere. The goal for the English program is to have a well-structured, yet flexible curriculum that isn’t based on conventional textbook teaching. Students will have the opportunity to learn while playing and experiencing activities held in the English-speaking environment.
We are seeking an experienced, creative and dynamic teacher to lead the English program for elementary school age children. Previous teaching experience and a desire to work with young children is a must. Experience in Japan is helpful, but not required. The position will commence in September 2010 or March 2011.
Please send brief history and reason for interest in the position to Courtneyadodson@ gmail.com, by July 25.
Kirsten’s World: Glitter on the Mattress
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Bow-waka-chika-POW!
By Kirsten Phillips (Niigata-ken, 2005-08) who is currently a teacher in the NYC Teaching Fellows Program.
If you see a faded sign by the side of the road…
My kid bro’s Japanese friend was surprised at his knowledge of love hotels as he had never been to Japan before. But love hotels are one of those garish social conventions that anyone with the faintest modicum of interest in Japanese culture needs to know. There’s no mystery to that fascination.
“It’s really strange.” His Japanese friend said. “Love hotels are the only way Japanese teenagers can really have sex. But what about American teenagers?”
Why do you think Americans have such big cars?
Love hotels are right up there with Read More
WIT Life #108: On the Road
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WITLife 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 together with her own observations.
Both films screened last night at Japan Society’s Japan Cuts festival were road movies. The first, Accidental Kidnapper, is reminiscent of Clint Eastwood’s A Perfect World, but I found the second one, One Million Yen Girl, to be more distinctly Japanese. Both feature well-known leads who are easy on the eyes (Katsunori Takahashi and Aoi Yu, respectively) and are backed by strong supporting casts, including Takashi Sasano who makes an appearance in both as an advocate for the main character.
In Accidental Kidnapper he plays a convict who advises Takahashi how to carry out his kidnapping, and in the latter he is a coffee shop proprietor in a small mountain village. In my previous double header, the actor Eita also appeared in both movies; he shows great versatility as one of the main characters in The Foreign Duck, The Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker and has a bit part in Hanging Garden. Both he and Sasano are also in Read More
JET ROI: JET alum Toby Weymiller building eco-friendly kissaten/cafe in Hokkaido
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JET Return on Investment (ROI) is a new category on JetWit intended to highlight the various economic, diplomatic and other benefits to Japan resulting from its investment in the JET Program. Why is this important right now? Because the JET Program and JET Alumni Association may be cut by the Japanese government, as explained in this post by Jim Gannon (Ehime-ken, 1992-94) titled “JET Program on the Chopping Block.”
Hokkaido-ken JET alum Toby Weymiller has returned to Japan and spent the last year building an eco-friendly kissaten/cafe (built with natural, sustainable materials) in the area where he worked on JET. And on top of that, he’s been documenting the whole process on his blog “Bomber & Maiko & Toby.” (Bomber is his cat, fyi.) (Update: I previously had heard it was a bed and breakfast but just learned that it’s in fact a kissaten/cafe.)
Here’s the link: http://maikotobybomber.blogspot.com/
(Thanks to JETAA International Vice-Chair for letting me know about this.)
