Education Opportunity: Scholarship for Teacher Training (via, pnwjetaa) 03.22.12
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Program Overview:
An intensive training program in teaching Chinese or Japanese will be held this summer (2012) at Portland State University in Oregon. The Chinese & Japanese Teacher Training Institute is an intensive course for current language teachers or those who plan to enter the field. The program provides the foundation for future instructors to teach their language and gives substantial tools to current teachers to reinforce and strengthen their programs. It is a hands-on course, and effective methodology in teaching Chinese and Japanese to North Americans is emphasized over a theoretical analysis of the language. Read More
Doshisha Global MBA Program: Kyoto, Japan (via, pnwjetaa) 03.22.12
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Discover the Doshisha Global MBA – Designed for the 21st century
– Build your own program from courses in General Business Management or our innovative focus areas: Business in Asia, Green Business, and Culture and Creativity. – Gain a global perspective through an international student body, overseas study options, and classes taught by experts from around the world. – Scholarships available for all international students. – Career opportunities in Japan and with Japanese companies seeking global talent. – A strong focus on the Social Responsibility of business. – Opportunities to learn Japanese and take classes in our sister Japanese MBA program. – Looking to advance your career, and help make the world a better place? Come and join us at Doshisha Business School.
The University
Doshisha University is widely recognized as one of Japan’s top comprehensive universities, with 15 Faculties and Centers and 15 Graduate Schools. Founded in 1875, it has a distinguished history of education based on the founder’s philosophy of education guided by conscience. Doshisha is one of the top four prestigious private universities in the Kansai (Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto) region, and is one of 13 universities selected by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology for the Global 30 Project for Establishing Core Universities for Internationalization. Doshisha Business School’s English-language Global MBA is a flagship program for the university’s Global 30 participation. Read More
Job: Education and Learning Manager (Decatur, GA) 03.22.12
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Thanks to JET Alum, Jessica Kennett Cork for this posting. Posted by Kay Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97).
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Position: Education and Learning Manager
Posted by: International Rescue Committee
Type: Full-time
Location: Decatur, GA
Salary: DOE
Start Date: As soon as possible
http://tbe.taleo.net/NA2/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=IRC&cws=1&rid=7967&source=Indeed.com
Responsibilities:
The Education & Learning Manager oversees all components of IRC Atlanta’s Education services to refugee children, youth and adults. Adult education services include English as a Second Language instruction; job readiness and vocational training; computer skills instruction; financial literacy, cultural orientation and life skills instruction. Youth services include year-round after school and summer programs for refugee teens, youth internship program, and special safety, career, and enrichments programs. The Education Manager is a full-time, exempt position reporting directly to the Executive Director.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
- Oversee and coordinate the daily operations of IRC Atlanta’s Education & Learning programs, providing guidance, leadership, and direct supervision in all aspects of service provision
- Develop and enhance the design of education & learning services, including ESL, family literacy, job readiness and vocational training, youth after-school, summer camp, computer literacy, cultural orientation and other emerging services Read More
Job:Postings from Idealist.org 3.22.12
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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.
Regional Program Manager for Tohoku Rebuilding Program
Posted by: Architecture For Humanity
Type: Full-time (2 year contract)
Location: San Francisco, CA
Salary: DOE (Full Benefits)
Start date: 4/9/2012
Architecture For Humanity is seeking a Japanese proficient program manager to assist with development in Tohoku. They are looking for candidates with experience in business development and real estate. MBA is preferred.
http://www.idealist.org/view/job/cbZKbhDtg8jd/
Job: Trader/ Business Development (ITOCHU International) (DC) 03.21.12
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Via JETAA DC. Posted by Kay Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97).
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Position: Trader/ Business Development
Posted by: ITOCHU International
Type: N/A
Location: Washington, DC
Salary: N/A
Start Date: N/A
http://www.itochu. com/general/ careers.
Responsibilities:
Develop and implement a trading, marketing and business development program for ITOCHU’s Uranium business. Assist the
planning and strategy for uranium trading,
marketing, and executes transactions for sales, purchases and swaps.
Key Responsibility areas:
Communicate daily with uranium business partners
(utilities, miners, traders and brokers, etc) in North/South America and
Europe (mainly North America) and collaborate to create trading and
marketing opportunities for the Nuclear Fuel Group. Executes uranium transactions for sales,
purchases and swaps. Read More
Job: Bilingual Japanese Translator 03.20.12
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Thanks to JET Alum, Shun Endo, for sending this post, Posted by Kay Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97).
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Position: Bilingual Japanese Translator
Posted by: Aerotek
Type: Contract (up to 48 weeks)
Location: Redmond, WA
Salary: $17 – $20/hour
Start Date: N/A
Responsibilities:
– Translating Japanese to English and English to Japanese.
– Translating technical and non-technical documents, process manuals, internal communications, programming specifications, design instructions, etc… Read More
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Thanks to Lindsay Tsuji for this write-up and thanks to Nadine Bukhman for the photos.
A chilly Toronto’s eve didn’t stop friends and fans of one artistically inclined JET alum from dropping by the Goodfellas Gallery in Toronto to celebrate the launch of his new book Life After the B.O.E. JETAA Toronto’s David Namisato (Aomori-ken CIR, 2002-04) was the cause of some serious hurrah on February 8.
Most JETs are no stranger to David’s comics. Started back in 2005, they chronicle the ins and outs of what life is like as a foreigner on the JET Programme. The enkais, the onsens, the team teaching…it’s all in there. Read More
JQ Magazine: Book Review – ‘Tomo: Friendship through Fiction: An Anthology of Japan Teen Stories’
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“Reading ‘Tomo’ is a reminder that even in the most desperate straits, friendship and personal relationships have the power to nourish and sustain us.” (Stone Bridge Press)
By Sharona Moskowitz (Fukuoka-ken, 2000-01) for JQ magazine. Sharona is interested in fresh, new voices in fiction and creative nonfiction.
If you could know your future cause of death, would you choose to know? This is the question posed by “Yamada-san’s Toaster,” one of the short stories in the new fiction anthology Tomo: Friendship through Fiction: An Anthology of Japan Teen Stories. As the title suggests, the collection is geared toward adolescents and dedicated to the youth of Tohoku, though it undoubtedly has— in the parlance of publishing— tremendous crossover appeal. There is plenty for adults to enjoy here, too. Edited and with a foreword by Holly Thompson, this collection features 36 stories—including 10 in translation—contributed by several JET alums from around the world, all of whom share a connection to Japan. Proceeds from its sale will go directly to the continued relief efforts.
In Kelly Luce (Kawasaki/Tokushima, 2002-04)’s story, Yamada-san’s toaster burns into each slice of bread a Chinese character supposedly predicting one’s cause of death. The tale’s young narrator observes the effects of the toaster on the townspeople as news spreads and they become stirred into a ridiculous pandemonium. There’s a great element of humor to the story though it also reveals a universal human folly: the vulnerability towards superstition. People try desperately to find order and make sense of a chaotic and random world, even if it means looking for burnt kanji of the toast on a breakfast plate.
The stories are grouped thematically, represented by “Shocks and Tremors,” Friends and Enemies,” “Ghosts and Spirits,” Powers and Feats,” Talents and Curses,” Insiders and Outsiders” and “Families and Connections.” (The final story, the poignant “Peace on Earth,” is penned by Suzanne Kamata (Tokushima-ken, 1988-90), whose own book of short stories, The Beautiful One Has Come, was released last year.
JET Prefecture Round-up 3.16.12
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Sam Brewster, (Akita-ken, Kazuno-shi, 2011-present), gives a little taste of what JETs are doing around Japan. To submit items for future JET Prefecture Round-up posts, e-mail Sam at jetinfogather [at] gmail.com.
Events by Region
Kansai Region
- March 24th is Wakayama JET’s children’s Easter event at the Tanabe Shimin Sogo Center. There will be bilingual readings of the Easter Bunny story, and children will have the chance to meet the Easter Bunny make their own bunny masks and take part in a fun Easter egg hunt.
Kantou Region
Ibaraki
- Ibaraki Jets still have chance to check out the annual Plum Blossom Festival in Mito, which runs right up until March 31st.
- St. Patrick’s Day Event at Bardega in Hitachi on Friday, March 16th and Saturday, March 17th.
- St. Patrick’s Day Parade on March 17th in Kumamoto City.
- On Saturday, March 24th, Miyazaki AJET presents…’Karaoke Bus Road Trippin’!
- St. Patrick’s Day feast and party in Matsuyama on Saturday, March 17th.
- Club Livespace in Akita City will play host to Akita’s very first St. Patrick’s Day Dance Party on Friday, March 16th. Organised by the ALT-led charity Volunteer Akita, the event aims to raise money for their Scholarship Fund. Through this fund they hope to send an orphan from the Sendai area to college – a truly inspiring cause as he is the first from his orphanage to ever show interest in attending.
*Note to all JETs and JET alumni: Click here to find your JET prefecture group on LinkedIn.
I’ll Make It Myself!: “Roasted Vegetables and My Obsession with 安納芋”
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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 submissions always welcome. Just e-mail it to jetwit [at] jetwit.com.
Orange sweet potatoes, ubiquitous in the US, are often nowhere to be found in Ishikawa. Depending on where you are in the prefecture, you can usually locate some in one brief part of late winter in the local-vegetable section of the grocery store with the Noto– and Kaga Yasai (heirloom vegetables from Noto [northern Ishikawa] and Kaga [central-southern Ishikawa]). This March, I found some “Kabocha Imo” (“kabocha squash potato,” かぼちゃ芋), a Noto Yasai, at Marue, and I also found a large bag of annôimo (安 納芋) in the basement grocery stores in the department store M’ZA. Orange sweet potatoes are not as cheap as I remember them being back home during my student days, but they’re every bit as delicious.
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Job: Japanese Language Instructor (DC) 03.17.12
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Via JETAA-DC Posted by Kay Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97).
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Position: Japanese Language Instructor
Posted by: Global Language Translation, Inc.
Type: Full-time
Location: Arlington, VA
Salary: NA
Start date: NA
Contact Info: patricia@gltcenter. com
Responsibilities:
• Provide basic, intermediate and advanced language instruction to U.S. government and other personnel. Assist with evaluation of students and provide academic counseling. About half the time will be spent in classroom instruction and other half preparing for class and related duties. Class size is small, 1 — 8 students at the same level.
• Full time (40 hours/week). Monday through Friday, 7:15 AM — 4:00 PM.
• Required Experience: Native speaker of the target language. Educated in target language through secondary school. Read More
Huffington Post article by Rikuzentakata JET alum Sarah Ruddy
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Former Rikuzentakata JET Sarah Ruddy, a web producer for New York Magazine, was recently by Huffington Post to write an article in connection with the one-year anniversary of the 3/11 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. (On a side note, I noticed that Sarah mentions another JET alum in the article, author/humor writer Will Ferguson who wrote Hitching Rides With Buddha among other books.)
View from where Sarah's desk used to be in the Board of Education in Rikuzentakata
Here’s the article:
After The Tohoku Earthquake: ‘I Gave Up My Family For Dead’
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-ruddy/after-the-tohoku-earthqua_b_1335092.html#s770689
Here’s an excerpt:
My decision to go back was not about whether I should but how soon I could. I was determined to do whatever I could to help. I was often asked if I was afraid of another earthquake and tsunami occurring or how the radiation would effect me. There are plenty of dangers in the world that we can’t predict or prevent. They shouldn’t stop us from experiencing life.
I ended up going last November, seven months after the tsunami hit. I was welcomed by friends and generously offered a place to stay. I heard their stories of that day and the seven months that followed. The improvements made in that time were incredible.
I volunteered in Rikuzentakata and Ofunato, the city immediately north, and returned to my former schools to help out with classes. The people I volunteered with were from all over Japan, including students who were on break, retired couples who had free time and curious people who wondered how anyone could have survived. I spent long hours digging through fields of sediment and debris.
International Educator magazine article remembers Monty and Taylor
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Thanks to JETAA Music City’s Terry Vo (Kumamoto-ken, 2007-09) and JETAA Northern California’s Peter Weber (Saitama-ken, 2004-07) (both of whom work as JET Coordinators at their local Consulates) for sharing this excellent International Educator magazine article (“Overcoming Chaos“)about the various ways the Tohoku disaster affected a variety of international education programs, including the JET Program. The writer does a nice job of capturing the spirit and essence of Monty Dickson and Taylor Anderson towards the end of the article, and what we lost when we lost them.
Here’s the link to the article (PDF): http://www.nafsa.org/_/File/_/ie_marapr12_japan.pdf
Notably, the article also quotes JET alum Kate Maruyama who is the Japan programs manager for CET Academic Programs in Washington, D.C. And it indicates that Ashley Mar, the UC Santa Barbara biology student who happened to be studying abroad at Tohoku Biology University on 3/11 and was required to return to the U.S. despite her desire to stay, is now applying for the JET Program.
Job:Postings from Idealist.org 3.15.12
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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.
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Summer Quest Japanese Instructors Needed
Posted by: Harlem Education Activities Fund
Type: Part-time/Contract
Location: New York City, NY
Salary: Competitive
Start date: Training – May/June 2012, Start/End date: July 9th – August 10th, 2012
Summer Quest is seeking Japanese instructors for a summer Japanese language immersion program. Minimum 3 years teaching experience. B.A. in Education, Japanese or related field (M.A. preferred).
http://www.idealist.org/view/job/hdDWSwd89XNp/
Homestay Manager
Posted by: AYUSA International
Type: Temporary/Contract
Location: San Francisco, CA
Salary: DOE
Start date: Contract position is February 15 to August 31
AYUSA International is seeking a weekend Homestay Manager to coordinate homestay programs for Japanese high school students attending the University of California, Berkeley. Position also requires the supervising of a homestay coordinator staff. No previous experience required.
http://www.idealist.org/view/job/SSxKCwk6NMfP/
Homestay Coordinator
Posted by: AYUSA International
Type: Temporary/Contract
Location: San Francisco, CA
Salary: DOE
Start date: Contract position is February 15 to August 31
AYUSA International is seeking individuals to recruit host families for Japanese exchange students. No previous experience required.
http://www.idealist.org/view/job/bzpPxk9xWKMD/
Jobs: Writer Translator and Web Designer (London, UK) 03.15.12
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Thanks to Jet Alumn Dipika Soni for forwarding these two JET relevant openings in the UK.
Posted by Kay Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97).
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Position: Writer/ Translator
Posted by: Cross Media
Type: Part-time (possible full-time)
Location: London, UK
Salary: Provided on application
Start date: NA
Contact Info:
Responsibilities:
– To translate Japanese to English texts for internal use and for external use on websites/print
media
– To write original content for external use on websites/print media
– To proofread and edit English documents for internal and external use
– To plan and manage newsletter, website and social media content
We are initially offering this as a part time but a full time position may be offered to the right person.
Please send your CV, two samples of writing, and two samples of Japanese to English translation (including the original text), as well as any visa details if relevant to Ms. Mary Moreton mary@eat-japan.com with Writer/Translator in the title. Read More
