Job: Actus Posting: Sales Specialist (NJ) 05.24.12
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Via ACTUS. Posted by Kay Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97).
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*** If you apply, please make sure to let them know you saw the listing on JETwit. ****
Position: Sales Specialist
Posted by: ACTUS Consulting
Type: Could be temp to hire
Location: Closter , NJ
Salary: $35~40K
Start Date: N/A
Responsibilities:
As a Sales Specialist, you will be in charge of corporate accounts. The main services you will be selling include: international and domestic moving, office relocation support, storage service. This is a great opportunity for you to learn the business and gain valuable experience as a Sales. Will have a lot of responsibilities. Exciting environment for those who are passionate and interested in expanding business opportunities. Sales Department has 5 expatriates from Japan and 2 temp employees
This is a new position as the hiring company is launching the new project to promote their service outside the existing corporate clients who are mainly Japanese. They are aiming to expand their business within non-Japanese corporate.
Preferred Experience and Skills:
– Must have Native-level English and Conversational-level Japanese
– Sales experience welcome, but not a must
– Must have excellent command of MS Excel, Word, Powerpoint
– Must be able to prepare Powerpoint presentations and present to the clients
Company Information:
– Company Address: Closter , NJ
– Well established international freight forwarder headquartered in Japan
– Has strong global network- over 88 countries
– Revenue exceeds $14 billion
– NJ Office has 27 employees
Please forward your most recent resume and cover letter to stakeda@actus-usa.com as an MS WORD attachment. Make sure to mention which position you are applying to in your cover letter. We will contact qualified candidates to have a preliminary interview. We are a Japanese staffing agency and currently searching for candidates for the above position at one of our client companies. We look forward to your application. Thank you!
Job: Tour Guide/Driver for Japanese Tourists (AZ) 05.24.12
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Thanks to JET alum Corey Ticknor for passing this along. Posted by Kay Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97).
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Corey Ticknor (Yamagata pref, 2009-2011) has a Japanese-speaking job with Atlas America in Arizona that is hiring; JET alums are encouraged to apply.
***Remember, if you apply, please make sure to let them know you saw the listing on JETwit.**
Position: Tour Guide/Driver for Japanese Tourists
Posted by: Atlas America
Type: Part-time/Freelance with opportunity for Full-time
Location: Sedona, AZ
Salary: $12.50/h during 90-day training period, $15/h + thereafter
Start Date: Immediately
http://www.atlas-america.com
Responsibilities:
Atlas America tour guides/drivers operate company vehicles to provide customer transportation to and from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport , as well as high-quality tours around Sedona and northern Arizona . Exacting, detail-oriented office work is an integral part of the job.
Company profile:
Atlas America is a full-service travel and tour company based in beautiful Sedona , Arizona . During the past decade Sedona has become a must-see destination for Japanese travelers to the US , and steadily increasing numbers of these visitors is driving growth at Atlas America . As an affiliate with the top Japanese travel agencies (JTB, HIS, JALPAK, etc), the company provides airport shuttle service, hotel bookings, and a full slate of tour options including Grand Canyon trips, helicopter sight-seeing tours, and hiking adventures to Sedona’s famous “energy vortex” power spots.
Requirements:
• You are willing to relocate to (or near) the beautiful red rocks of Sedona , Arizona .
• You are fluent in Japanese and English with a focus on spoken Japanese (JLPT N2 recommended) and a willingness to perfect your Japanese through continuous study.
• You will have a clean driving record (driver’s abstract required) and a valid Arizona driver’s license.
• You are at least 25 years old (Commercial Driver Insurance requirement)
• You are friendly, outgoing, and because you lived in Japan , you understand and can meet the extremely high levels of customer service that our customers expect.
• You are obsessed with perfecting details, eliminating mistakes, and communicating clearly in a small-business environment.
• You enjoy hiking and will have a working knowledge of the geography, geology, climate, ethnobotany, and Native American/American settler history of northern Arizona and more specifically Sedona.
• You are willing to work a flexible schedule with a minimum of 30 hours/week and more typically 40+.
• You are legally entitled to work in the United States .
APPLY
Please send your resume, cover letter, and three letters of reference by email to info@atlas-america.com. Include your email and phone number. No phone calls please.
Job: Postings from Idealist.org 5.24.12
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Via Idealist.org. Posted by Geneva Marie (Niigata-ken 2008-09) Geneva is a contributor to both JETwit and JETAANY. Geneva is on a continuous (epic) search for Japanese-related jobs in the United States. Hire me! :-)
Program and Operations Manager
Posted by: The Asia Foundation
Type: Full-Time
Location: San Francisco, CA/Ulaanbaatar Mongolia
Salary: Salary commensurate with experience
Application Deadline: June 1, 2012
The Asian Foundation in San Francisco is seeking a Program and Operations Manger to assist the Country Representative in reporting and monitoring the Foundation’s strategy, program and projects in Mongolia. A graduate degree in relevant field of foreign policy, international relations, economics, or law is required.
http://www.idealist.org/view/job/HZcN4bPW7Z5P/
Job: Bilingual (English/Japanese) Legal Assistant (DC) 05.23.12
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Via JETAA DC. Posted by Kay Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97).
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Position: Bilingual (English/Japanese) Legal Assistant
Posted by: MOTS Law, PLLC
Type: Full-time
Location: Washington, DC
Salary: N/A
Start Date: N/A
Overview:
MOTS is seeking a legal assistant who is able to file to USPTO, prepare letters to the clients, assists to the patent attorney and other administrative duties as necessary.
Prefer experienced but will consider the person willing to learn patent execution. Must be fluent in English and Japanese, be detail oriented and have Microsoft Office skills.
Full time position, work hours 8:30 – 5:30(core time 10:00 – 4:30), health and vision/dental insurances, 401(k), no visa support. Salary is commensurate with experience.
Please send your resume with salary requirement to hr(at) motslaw.com
バイリンガル(English/Japanese) リーガルアシスタントの募集
MOTS LAW, PLLC (Farragut North/Farragut West) では業務拡大のため以下の1名を募集しております。
バイリンガルリーガルアシスタント 米国特許庁への出願事務、クライアントへの報告書類作成、特許弁護士の 補助、その他必要に応じた庶務的な業務。経験者を優遇しますが、未経験者の方も教育いたします。几帳面でマイクロソフトオフィスのスキルある方。フルタイム 勤務時間8:30 – 5:30（コアタイム10:00 – 4:30）各種保険, 401(K) ビザサポートは行いません 待遇は経験により決定 履歴書と希望給与額をhr(at)motslaw.com までご送付ください。
Job: CRASH HQ Seeking Accounting Staff (Tokyo) 05.22.12
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Posted by Kay Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97).
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Position: Accounting Staff
Posted by: CRASH Japan
Type: Full-time
Location: Higashikurume, Tokyo)
Salary: N/A
Start Date: N/A
www.crashjapan.com
Description:
CRASH Japan is a non-profit Christian disaster relief organization based in Tokyo that is officially recognized by the Japanese government. CRASH has a paid job opportunity at headquarters in Tokyo for accounting staff.
Work Times:
5 days a week, from 9:00 to 18:00
Required Skills / Materials:
At least one year of accounting experience; a recommendation from your pastor or leader, Japanese reading ability (reports and receipts are in Japanese)
Additional Info:
Transportation fees will be covered. Stipend is available. CRASH does not sponsor work visas.
If you are interested, please go to www.crashjapan.com and register as a “volunteer.” After registration, contact Yoneyama at admin.chief@crashjapan.com for more details about the position.
Job: Japanese Speaking Sports Journalist – West London (UK) 05.22.12
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Via JETAA UK. Posted by Kay Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97).
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Position: Japanese Speaking Sports Journalist
Posted by: Tay 2 Productions
Type: N/A
Location: West London, UK
Salary: N/A
Start Date: N/A
Details:
Japanese speaking sports journalist – Tay 2 Productions – West London
To view details about this job vacancy visit: http://www.jetaa.org.uk/jobs/japanese-speaking-sports-journalist/
JapanLocal: Tottori JET introduces his town to the world
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Tottori JET Anthony Lieven has created two videos so far as part of a monthly project that introduces his JET town of Misasa to the world. With Anthony’s permission (after initially seeing posted to the Tottori JET group on Facebook), here are the two videos so far:
April 2012
May 2012
If you or any other JETs/alums have Japan Local video, photographs, writing or other projects you’d like to share, please email jetwit [at] jetwit.com.
WIT Life #201: Comfort Women (慰安婦) Controversy
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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 together with her own observations.
A few days ago the New York Times featured an article about a monument in Palisades Park, New Jersey, an area populated largely by Korean Americans, dedicated to comfort women. The amount is disputed, but “comfort women” (慰安婦 or ianfu) refers to the at least tens of thousands of women and girls, many Korean, who were forced into sexual slavery by Japanese soldiers before and during World War II (Some counts put their numbers as high as 410,000).
The Palisades Park monument, built in 2010, is the only known tribute in the United States to the comfort women (Last year one was erected in Seoul, South Korea, in front of the Japanese Embassy). This picture shows three Korean Congressman who placed bouquets of white chrysanthemums at the stone monument last week.
According to the article, a delegation of four officials from Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party recently visited Palisades Park Mayor James Rotundo in order to urge him to get rid of the memorial. During this meeting they disputed Read More
Job: Postings from Idealist.org 5.20.12
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Via Idealist.org. Posted by Geneva Marie (Niigata-ken 2008-09) Geneva is a contributor to both JETwit and JETAANY. Geneva is on a continuous (epic) search for Japanese-related jobs in the United States. Hire me! :-)
Office Manager
Posted by: Japan Society of Northern California
Type: Full-Time
Location: San Francisco, CA
Salary: Salary is commensurate with experience
Start Date: June 1, 2012
The Japan Society of Northern California is seeking an office manager to work directly under the president. Candidate must be highly organized, and positive team player, a quick learner who can work efficiently with precision and minimal supervision. Bachelor’s degree preferred.
http://www.idealist.org/view/job/5K553gWd4fsP/
Type: Full-Time
Location: Washington, DC
Salary: DOE
Start Date: Not specified
JQ Magazine: Japan Day @ Central Park Reels in the Crowds
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Volunteers from JETAANY helped make this year's yo-yo fishing game a big success.
By Alma Jennings (Fukushima-ken, 2008-10) for JQ magazine. Alma works at Japan Society in New York as a development assistant in foundation and government relations.
The sixth annual Japan Day @ Central Park took place on a warm Sunday May 13. Over 40,000 people attended the event, which featured live performances, Japanese games and language lessons, and the four-mile “Japan Run.” This year also marked the triumphant return of food tents, where volunteers dished out free sushi, udon, Pocky, and other Japanese vittles to hungry visitors.
According to their homepage, the goals of Japan Day are to build bridges of understanding between the people of Japan and the U.S., showcase the local Japanese community’s appreciation toward New York, and facilitate stronger grassroots connections within the local Japanese community. This year, the JET Alumni Association of New York (JETAANY) teamed up with Japan Society, a New York City-based organization that deepens understanding between the U.S. and Japan, to offer traditional Japanese “yo-yo fishing.” In this addictive game, participants try to win a colorful balloon by using a paper hook to lift it from a pool of water. Volunteers from the Japan Local Government Center, Mitsubishi, K Line Logistics, Mirai IT International, and the Bronx Science Key Club also provided much appreciated help at the tent.
The cute yo-yos look deceptively easy to make. In fact, they are tricky to make and can get messy. Volunteers showed up hours before the event began to blow up the balloons, which tend to deflate over a few days and thus couldn’t be made in advance. Japan Society’s director of special events and JET alum Christy Jones (Nagasaki-ken, 1995-98) served as the yo-yo activity organizer on behalf of the Society, encouraging Japan Society’s staff and JET alums to prepare thousands of paper hooks before the big day.
JETAA British Columbia Newsletter – May 2012
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The latest issue of the JETAABC Newsletter is now available. In the first issue of the new cycle, they talk about Sakura Days Japan Fair, the Changing Tides Silent Auction, Photohoku, and much more, directly from Vancouver!
- PDF: http://www.jetaabc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/NewsletterV17N1.pdf
- Online viewer version on Issuu.com at http://issuu.com/jetaabc/docs/newsletterv17n1
JETAABC Newsletter: An Interview with Photohoku
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By Wanda Yee (Fukui-ken, 2001-07) for JETAABC Newsletter. Wanda is the Social Media Coordinator at JETAABritish Columbia.
© Satoshi Narita
What is Photohoku and how (and why) did you become involved with this project?
Photohoku is a family photo-album building project for those affected by the events of March 11th. It’s a portmanteau blending of the words Photo and Tohoku. It was officially started on September 11th of 2011 by myself (Brian Scott Peterson) and our co-founder, Yuko Yoshikawa. We became involved in the project having collaborated on another Tokyo-based project called Tokyo Kids Photo.
Basically we go to the earthquake and tsunami affected areas of Tohoku, armed with instant cameras and instant film and find families who lost all their photos in the disaster and make new photos for them. We put those photos in a new family album for them and present that newly started album to the families. If the families don’t have a camera, we also give them a retired digital camera we’ve collected as donations from our friends and families. Finally, on subsequent trips, we print the photos from the cameras with have given and add those photos to the albums as well so they can continue them. Basically help them start their photographic lives over.
How did Photohoku evolve from being just an idea to becoming a full-on reality? Read More
Tom Baker (Chiba-ken, 1989-91) is a, coauthor of The Sushi Lover’s Cookbook and Tokyo Chic and contributor to Time Out Tokyo and Time Out Shortlist Tokyo. He blogs as “Tokyo Tom Baker.”
A few minutes ago, I went outside and tested my fancy new eclipse-viewing glasses. Forty-eight hours from now, on the morning of May 21, I’ll be among millions of people in Japan and the western United States taking the rare opportunity to view a “kinkan nisshoku,” or “annular eclipse.”
An annular eclipse is one that occurs when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun at a point in the moon’s orbit when it is far from the Earth and thus appears relatively small – the exact opposite of the effect seen in the recent “supermoon.” In an annular eclipse, this small moon appears superimposed in front of the sun rather than completely blocking it out. The visible portions of the sun form a fiery ring around the moon’s black silhouette.
One positive effect of this event is that it has expanded my vocabulary in two languages. The English word “annular,” which comes from Latin via French, means “ring-shaped.” The Japanese term is even more straightforward and easy to remember, as it is written with a string of kanji characters that literally mean “gold-ring sun-eating.”
The moon’s shadow will fall across a large swath of the Earth, but the full annular effect will be visible only in a narrow band that goes through nearly all of Japan’s major cities (what luck!) Monday morning before moving out to sea in a long arc across the northern Pacific Ocean, where it will slip back to late Sunday as it crosses the International Date Line, after which it will come ashore in northern California, pass over Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon, and finally fade out over the border of Texas and New Mexico.
I’ll Make It Myself!: Whole-Wheat Pitas (Bread Revolution Series)
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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. A writer and web administrator for The Art of Japan: Kanazawa and Discover Kanazawa, ze also writes I’ll Make It Myself!, a blog about food culture in Japan, and 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.
New Rice Cooker Chronicles submissions always welcome. Just e-mail it to jetwit [at] jetwit.com.
More Bread Revolution and Guide to Flour.
“Pita pockets” didn’t excite me as a kid. Toted as a kid-friendly food, the charm of stuffing sandwich fillings into a bread with a pocket was lost on me. I rediscovered pita–fresh pita–in university at Middle-Eastern diners and as (store-bought) hummus became more mainstream. In Japan, I sometimes bought stacks of pita from the import store, but after preparing for an international cooking lesson, I discovered pita are really simple to make, and more importantly, make a great bread substitute for proper sandwiches in Japan. Save the trip to the import store for chickpeas–you don’t even need to make hummus to go with it!*
Job: Purchasing Representative – Auto Parts Manufacturing 05.16.12
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Via Futaba North America. Posted by Kay Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97).
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(Received directly from hr at Futaba. They hired a jet alum last year who still works there and have been extremely pleased.)
***Note: If you apply for this position, please let them know you learned of it from JETwit. Thanks.***
Position: Purchasing Representative – Auto Parts Manufacturing
Posted by: Futaba North America Engineering & Marketing Corporation (FNA)
Type: Full-time
Location: NA
Salary: $35,000 (Entry Level)
Start Date: N/A
http://www.futaba.com/
Responsibilities:
The corporate office of four auto-parts manufacturing subsidiaries is seeking a Purchasing Representative. This is an entry-level position. We are seeking a highly motivated, detail-oriented person with excellent customer service and phone skills. The applicant must be flexible, a team player and be able to multi-task successfully in busy office environment.
The position responsibilities include pricing administration for materials and parts for our subsidiaries and suppliers, developing and maintaining excellent client/supplier relations, and maintaining online and physical records. This position includes some traveling to our subsidiaries and suppliers. In addition, the incumbent will support TS compliance requirements. This is an excellent opportunity to learn the purchasing functions of the auto parts manufacturing business. Our purchasing team is responsible for purchasing supplies and parts for the Futaba North America subsidiaries and sister company in Canada.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite is essential, with a particular emphasis in Excel and Word.
A college education is required. Japanese language skills are preferred. Most of the communication to vendors will be in English; however, the primary language spoken in this company is Japanese.
Send resumes to: employment@futabanaem.com
Overview:
We are Futaba North America Engineering & Marketing Corporation (FNA). We are a Japanese company. FNA was created in November 2011 to be the holding company for the three auto-parts manufacturing subsidiaries in Illinois, Indiana, and Texas. (Futaba has had a presence in the USA, since 1994.) We also provide support for our sister plant in Canada.
