Sep 30

JET Alum article on new Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso

JET alum Michael Auslin (formerly a professor of Japanese history at Yale and currently a researcher for the American Enterprise Institute) has a new article about the new Japanese prime minister Taro Aso entitled Can This Man Save the LDP?


Sep 28

Roland Kelts Column in Daily Yomiuri

Roland Kelts (Osaka, 1998-1999), author of Japanamerica:  How Japanese Culture Has Invaded the U.S., has an article in this weekend’s Daily Yomiuri entitled Soft Power, Hard Truths:  Japan’s Global Power:  Soft or Wilted? You can keep up on Roland on his blog at http://japanamerica.blogspot.com.


Sep 28

JET Alum Article in The Guardian

See JET alum Julie Ferry’s article entitled The Knowledge Gap which ran in The Guardian on 9/26/08 and which references her experience on JET in a discussion of the evolution of the “gap year”.  To learn more about Julie, you can visit her website at http://www.julieferry.co.uk/.


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