Sep 9

JQ Magazine’s September/October “Sayonara Print Issue” Out Now!‏

JQ magazine returns with another fall classic! Features include the JETAA USA National Conference wrap-up, a review of JET alum author Malena Watrous‘ new book If You Follow Me, and an exclusive interview with Japan’s Ambassador to the United States Ichiro Fujisaki. Click here to view. BIG NEWS! This is also JQ‘s final issue in […]


May 18

It’s a veritable JET literary review in the new issue of JQ, featuring an interview with bestselling Learning to Bow author Bruce Feiler and three-time Stephen Leacock Medal winner Will Ferguson! Click here to view. Additional contents below. Thanks to JQ editor Justin Tedaldi (Kobe-shi CIR, 2001-02) for another solid issue. Contact Justin if you’d […]


Oct 16

  *************** JQ Editor Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02) has done it again.  Another great issue of JQ: JQ FALL ISSUE OUT NOW! Some Dreams Do Come True! JQ’s Fall 2009 Issue is Here!! FALL 2009 ISSUE: click image below for our homepage In our final issue of the year, we chat with the men of Anvil! […]


Aug 8

**************** JQ SUMMER ISSUE OUT NOW! We Want You to Want It! JQ’s Summer 2009 Issue is Here!! SUMMER 2009 ISSUE – click image below to download PDF The leader of a band that’s sold over 20 million records and brought the words “At Budokan” to the big time, the new Japanese ambassador to New […]


Jun 3

JQ Magazine’s Spring 2009 “Utada Issue” Now Available Online!

The Spring 2009 Issue of JQ (JETAA NY Quarterly) Magazine is now available online at http://jetaany.org/magazine/. O-tsuakare sama deshita to Editor Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02) for all his hard work in putting out another outstanding issue, this one featuring a one-on-one interview he did with Hikaru Utada in New York. Tanjo!!  JQ‘s Spring 2009 […]


Feb 25

JQ Magazine: Winter 2009 “New Issue” of JETAA NY Quarterly Magazine Now Online!

*********** Otsukare sama deshita to Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02), the new editor of JQ, JETAA NY’s Quarterly Magazine, for putting out the first issue of the Magazine.  And what an amazing issue it is. Go to http://jetaany.org/magazine to see the issue online. Here’s the table of contents: WINTER 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 3…..Letter […]


Feb 21

From the 2009 Winter Issue of JQ, the JETAA NY quarterly magazine: A JET Alum’s Experience Makes its Way to the Stage:  JQ Catches Up With Playwright Randall David Cook By Lyle Sylvander (Yokohama-shi, 2001-02) Three years ago, the Gotham Stage Company produced the terrific play Sake with the Haiku Geisha by JET alum Randall […]


Feb 3

********** Roland Kelts (Osaka, 1998-99), author of Japanamerica, will be at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston on Wednesday, February 11 for a screening + discussion of the animated film Grave of the Fireflies.  More details here.  (Side note:  Lyle Sylvander (Yokohama-shi, 2001-02) wrote an excellent and succinct review of Grave of the Fireflies […]


Nov 10

JETAA NY Quarterly: Fall 2008 “Politics” Issue

JETAA NY has just published its Fall 2008 “Politics” Issue of its quarterly publications.  Click the image below to read. FALL 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1…..JET Alumni Election Survey Page 2…..Letter from the President Page 3…..Comings & Goings Page 4…..Translators Challenge Page 5…..JETAANY Society Page by Yoku Shitteiru Page 6…..Interview with Inuyama City Councilman […]


Sep 25

Theatre Review Steven Sondheim’s PACIFIC OVERTURES Reviewed by Lyle Sylvander (Yokohama-shi, 2001-02) (Fall 2004 Issue of the JETAA NY Newsletter) When the original production of Pacific Overtures opened on Broadway in 1976, it marked the fourth collaboration between composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim and producer/director Harold Prince.  The team had challenged the notions of what a Broadway […]


Sep 25

OFF-BROADWAY REVIEW JET Alum Randall David Cook’s SAKE WITH THE HAIKU GEISHA Reviewed by Lyle Sylvander (Yokohama-shi, 2001-02) (Winter 2006 Issue of the JETAA NY Newsletter) Randall David Cook’s new play Sake with the Haiku Geisha, produced by the Gotham Stage Company at the Perry Street Theatre, is a must-see for all past and future […]


Sep 25

Band Review GAIJIN a GO-GO Reviewed by Lyle Sylvander (Summer 2005 Issue) Last month, I was lucky enough to have stumbled across a band called Gaijin a Go-Go.  The Brooklyn-based group is the brainchild of Petra Hanson, a fashion designer who fused her interests in Japanese pop culture with her affinity for swinging 60s pop […]


Sep 25

Film Review ZATOICHI Reviewed by Lyle Sylvander (Yokohama-shi, 2001-02) (Summer 2004 Issue) Takashi Kitano has had a long and varied career as an entertainer in Japan.  He burst onto the scene in the 1970’s as one-half of the comedy duo The Beat Brothers and then extended the range of his acting by taking on more […]


Sep 25

Film Review TOKYO OLYMPIAD Reviewed by Lyle Sylvander (Yokohama-shi, 2001-02) (Summer 2008 JETAA NY Newsletter) In 1964, Tokyo became the first Asian city to host the Olympic games.  Much like the imminent Beijing games, the tournament was meant to spotlight the rapidly rising economy of the host nation and officially welcome the country into the […]


Sep 25

Film Review TOKYO GODFATHERS Reviewed by Lyle Sylvander (Yokohama-shi, 2001-02) (Spring 2004 Issue of the JETAA NY Newsletter) Since the release of Akira in 1988, Japanese anime has gained respectability in the United States by tackling more and more ambitious themes.  The genre reached something of a pinnacle last year when Hiyao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away […]


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