JOB: Middle School Teacher (Milwaukee)
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Milwaukee Renaissance Academy wants teachers for the core subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic. They are also actively pursuing language teachers for JAPANESE, Mandarin, Arabic, and Hindi. Position starts by August 1st, 2009.
http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/Job/330341-126
JOB: Bilingual Architect/Project Manager (Atlanta)
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(Job posting by Barry Greene (Yamanshi-ken 2002-05)).
A construction company has Japanese clients and English-speaking vendors: sounds like the perfect place for a JET.
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J-News Mini-Roundup: The Flu Comes to Narita
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Scene from the movie, "The Blob"
J-News Mini-Roundup is a recurring feature written by Friend Of JET, Jon Hills, who maintains the blog for Hills Learning (www.hillslearning.com). Hills Learning is a NY-based language learning services company offering customized and personal Japanese language learning options.
Background: All three newspapers headlines ran a story about the woman from America who was diagnosed potentially with a strain of the “flu.” Whether this is the Swine Flu or not is something that has still not been made public. At about 330pm in Narita Airport a woman who was flying on Northwest Airlines was taken in for the first level of quarantine testing, and tested positive for the A strain of the flu. She is now currently undergoing a second level of testing that will confirm whether or not this is the Swine Flu. Each newspaper gives its take on the situation.
Yomiuri “The War on the Virus is at our Shores.” This was Yomiuri’s closing quote from their article but it pretty much sums up their diagnosis of the situation. While both the Nikkei and Asahi newspapers give brief descriptions of what happened at Narita, Yomiuri gives detailed events that show a war on the virus is coming to Japanese shores. They point out that the WHO had just raised the alert level to 5 from the National Infectious Diseases Research center in Shinjuku. The newspaper in their preceding paragraph tells the reader about how diseases, if undiagnosed, transcend national borders.
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Author Suzanne Kamata (Tokushima-ken, 1988-90) contacted me to let me know that poet Craig Arnold is missing in Japan. There is an effort underway to draw more attention to Craig’s disappearance to help pressure Japanese and U.S. authorities to take action.
For more information about the effort, please visit http://findcraigarnold.blogspot.com/
For more information on Craig Arnold, you can see his Wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Arnold
Latest update from findcraigarnold.blogspot.com:
News
4/30 at 2:00 am EST: According to Christopher Blasdel of The International House of Japan, two US helicopters have landed on the island to assist in the search. The prefectural police have added another helicopter to make a total of four helicopters. The island has deep vegetation which might make it difficult to see anything from the air, but we have our fingers crossed!
J-News Mini-Roundup: Baby Boy Found in Freezer
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J-News Mini-Roundup is a recurring feature written by Friend Of JET, Jon Hills, who maintains the blog for Hills Learning (www.hillslearning.com). Hills Learning is a NY-based language learning services company offering customized and personal Japanese language learning options.
Background: In Hyogo Prefecture, Ono City, Miyuki Otsuka was arrested yesterday on charges that she left her child’s body in the freezer. According to the police, Miyuki showed up the police station and said that she was hiding her baby’s body in the freezer. Both the Yomiuri and the Asahi Newspapers tell this gruesome tale differently, and interestingly enough neither paper speculates on how or why the baby was killed.
Yomiuri “He was already dead when I got home.” Miyuki claims that she made her son stay at home while she went out. After she returned home, she found her son dead. The Yomiuri mentions some interesting details surrounding this, like for example Miyuki is unemployed. Also, they point out that the body was found in a vanilla bag, wrapped up. They end their article saying the police are currently doing an autopsy to find the cause of death, but the scene they set makes you wonder how it couldn’t be Miyuki.
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Via JETAA Southern California:
English tutors wanted for 2 Consuls at the Consulate General of Japan in Downtown Los Angeles. Private lessons working on conversation skills.
– 1-2 times per week on weekdays
– At the Consulate office
– $20 per hour plus parking fee (parking TBA after interview)
– 2 hours per session from 18:30
– Lesson days TBA after interview
If interested, please email resume to h_tanaka@la-cgjapan.org and y_okada@la-cgjapan.org
JOB: Inside Sales/Customer Service (Los Angeles)
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Via JETAA Southern California:
Job responsibilities and qualifications: Inside sales/customer service at beauty products mfg/distributor. Must be fluent in English, and must have great communication skill. Must be interested or has experience in beauty industry. Salary, if available: approximately 30k with benefits and overtime pay.
How to apply: Please send WORD formatted resume to fumi@interplace-agency.com
National Language Service Corp…
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Acutely aware of the need for bilingual people, the US gov’t is finally doing something about it. The NLSC has been recently formed and is looking for those of us who “are multilingual volunteers who bridge communities, interpreting and translating in time of need.”
I haven’t fully checked out the website, but it sounds interesting. If you sign up, please post something. We’d love to know more about it.
http://www.nlscorps.org/Default.aspx
JOB: Bilingual IT Project Manager (New York)
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Misi Company is looking for someone to manage some complex IT projects. Send resumes to cbecker@misicompany.com and check out their website at http://www.misicompany.com
Link to full Description:
http://seeker.dice.com/jobsearch/servlet/JobSearch?op=101&dockey=xml/5/e/5e84fb0a0e302aae547792f5999b5222@endecaindex&c=1&source=20
(Posted by JetWit Job Poster Barry Greene (Yamanashi-ken, ’02-’05))
JOB: Rosetta Stone Creative Writer (Virginia)
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The folks are Rosetta are looking for someone to help them design curriculum , amongst other responsibilities. This would be perfect for bilingual former teachers- oh wait, that would be us.
(Posted by Barry Greene (Yamanashi-ken ’02-’05))
JOB: Legal, Technical Translator (Washington D.C)
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For those of us who have a couple of years experience translating patents and performing technical interpreting, Greenblum & Bernstein is looking for you.
JOB: Executive Assistant at Union Bank (Los Angeles)
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A Senior VP needs some help overall and with translating/interpreting. If interested:
https://uboc.taleo.net/careersection/10000/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=07839
JOB: Amazon.com NEEDS YOU… Inventory Analyst (Seattle)
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Start date is ASAP.
Description: Amazon.com is currently looking for an Shared Services Inventory Analyst for Japan accounts payables to join their dynamic group. Each Analyst has assigned vendor accounts and it is their responsibility for maintaining the A/P relationship with the vendor. Candidates need to be familiar with all of the AP processes and the software packages that support them.
Apply at the following link: http://www.computerjobs.com/job_display.aspx?jobid=2305313
Job: Japanese teacher (and other teaching positions) (NYC)
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Via Krista Purnell, a friend of JETAA Country Representative (and former JETAA NY Vice-Prez) Shree Kurlekar (Shiga-ken):
New Heights Academy Charter School is a growing middle and high school serving students in upper Manhattan .
www.newheightsacademy.org
We are currently accepting applications for the 2009-10 school year for the following positions:
Middle School
- Algebra I Regents (grade 8)
- Earth Science Regents (grade 8)
High School
• Global Studies Regents (grade 10)
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Japanese (grades 10-12)
- Living Environment Regents (grade 9)
- Special Education (team teacher, grades 9-12)
By translator and writer Jamie Graves (Saitama-Ken 2002-2003)
Via the Honyaku discussion group:
We are looking for J>E translators for a fast-moving, high volume project.
The subjects are electronics, business documents and financial documents. If
you are interested in joining a highly committed gorup of language
professionals and can work at a high rate of output for the next 5
weeks this is a good job for you. Minimum output is 8000 words per week.
THERE IS NO MAXIMUM – WORK AS MUCH AS YOU CAN! Please provide a bi-text
sample of your work, your rate per English word and your potential output of
words per week to pmitz…@linguist.com . Thanks!
