Job: Custom Programs Resident Director – Osaka Gakuin University (Osaka, Japan)
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Position: Custom Programs Resident Director
Posted by: Osaka Gakuin University
Location: Osaka, Japan
Contract: Full-time
Thanks to JET alumna, Kate Maruyama (Osaka-ken, 2005-2008) for passing along the following opening at her organization:
The Custom Programs Resident Director (CPRD) will plan and implement customized programs developed specifically for various universities in the United States. When custom programs are not on the ground, the CPRD may also be responsible for supporting other team members on CET’s standard semester programs as needed.
Attributes of the ideal CPRD candidate are strong leadership skills, flexibility, dedication, and enthusiasm for working with students and for cross-cultural exchanges. Candidates are advised that this is a time consuming, challenging position. We discourage those interested in pursuing their own research projects in Japan from applying.
Application Process: For more information and to apply, please click here – https://cetacademicprograms.com/about/work-for-cet/. CET encourages applicants to send their materials as soon as possible and before their best consideration deadline on January 15, 2023.
Job: Part-time Assistant Director – Kobe Trade Information Office (Seattle, WA, USA)
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Posted by Sydney Sparrow. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
Position: Assistant Director
Posted by: Kobe Trade Information Office
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
Contract: Part-time
Here’s a JET-relevant job passed along to us:
The Kobe Trade Information Office (KTIO) is currently seeking a new Assistant Director. This is the perfect opportunity to learn about the Kobe-Seattle sister city relationship and the promotion of startup business abroad to Kobe, Japan.
This a part-time position in their downtown Seattle office where they share a space with Hyogo Business & Cultural Center (HBCC). They strongly encourage previous JET ALTs to apply! Unfortunately, they are unable to offer any visa sponsorship.
Application Process: Please check the link below. #seattlejobs#thejetprogram#alt#kobecity#japan
https://lnkd.in/d-zhHv2q
Job: Japanese to English Translator – Kyushu National Museum (Fukuoka, Japan)
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Position: Japanese to English Translator
Posted by: Kyushu National Museum
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Contract: Full-time
Below’s a job received directly from the museum. For applicants who do not have Japanese citizenship, you can either be a permanent resident of Japan or possess a visa that permits long-term remunerative work in Japan.
Interested parties may apply without such a visa provided they are able to obtain one by the starting date of employment, which the employer will help prepare the necessary documents for visa application such as a certificate of employment, etc.
Application Process: For more information and to apply, please click here –
https://www.kyuhaku.jp/news/news-221125.html
JQ Magazine: Holiday Lanterns, ‘Evangelion’ Finale, 8-Bit Big Band
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By JQ magazine editor Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02). Justin has written about Japanese arts and entertainment for JETAA since 2005. For more of his articles, click here.
With Thanksgiving (and the hopes of sensible eating) now just a memory, we turn to colder weather, falling snow, and the new year to come. Fortunately for Japanese culture fans, December is just as busy as the holiday season itself. Whether you’re hosting guests from out of town or looking to squeeze in an event or two in between parties, we’ve got you covered.
This month’s highlights include:
Now through Jan. 8
Various locations
$12.00-$50.00
The annual Winter Lantern Festival is back to transform your neighborhood into an immersive world of light Journey to the East with friends and family at SIUH Community Park in Staten Island to explore the wonders of over 1,000 Chinese lanterns; all handmade by artisans. Queens County Farm welcomes visitors an unforgettable radiant oasis with friends and family as we Illuminate the Farm. Located at Nassau County Museum of Art in Long Island, Winter Lantern Festival’s Drive Thru Adventure in Roslyn will dazzle your friends and family as you roll through acres of luminance! Finally, night the light this holiday season! The Winter Lantern Festival at Smithtown Historical Society in Suffolk County will feature lanterns and displays ranging from mushrooms and flowers to farm animals to dinosaurs; all handmade by artisans with decades of dedication to their craft. Be ready for photo-ops with friends and family as this will be an unforgettable experience!
Dec. 1-3, 7:30 p.m.
Kotei (The Emperor) | Makura Jido (Chrusanthemum Boy)
Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street
$95, $76 members (performance + soirée); $72, $58 members (performance only)
Prominent members from the Kita Noh School, including Akiyo Tomoeda, Living National Treasure designated by the Japanese government, perform two works from noh theater’s classical repertoire: Kotei (The Emperor) on Dec. 1 and 3, and Makura Jido (Chrysanthemum Boy) on Dec. 2—two pieces meant to be a prayer to hasten the end of the pandemic and celebrate health and longevity. Set in the Tang Dynasty in China, Kotei tells the story of the deity Shoki, who rescues the ailing Empress Yang Guifei and pledges his allegiance to Emperor Xuanzong. Also set in China, Makura Jido is about a boy who has joyfully lived for 700 years by drinking an immortal elixir from the dew of a chrysanthemum leaf. The boy reveals that the dew has created a pool in the valley, which has become the headspring for medicinal water. Performed in Japanese with English supertitles. A ticketed soirée follows the Dec. 1 performance. An artist Q&A follows the Dec. 2 performance.
Dec. 2-11, various times
Yoshimitsu Morita Retrospective
Film at Lincoln Center, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza #4
$10-$65
Across a 30-plus-year career, Yoshimitsu Morita (1950–2011) amassed one of the most fascinatingly idiosyncratic and prolific bodies of work in modern Japanese cinema. From his irreverently comic 1981 Something Like It to his 1983 breakout black comedy, The Family Game (presented in an all-new 4K remaster), to forays into melodrama (And Then, 1985), the hard-boiled film (Deaths in Tokimeki, 1984), the pink film/roman porno (Top Stripper, 1982), horror (The Black House, 1999), and romantic drama (Haru, 1996), Morita’s work is marked by an incomparable sensitivity to the peaks and valleys of the inner landscape of Japanese society, a penchant for subtle injections of surreality to highlight the absurdity of certain aspects of Japanese life, an omnipresent sense of irony, and a boldly iconoclastic approach to visual composition. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles. Select screenings feature an introduction by producer Kazuko Misawa and composer Michiru Oshima.
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