JETAA International videos
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Here are two videos recently released by JETAA International, and put together by JETAA-I Webmaster Bob Schnyder of JETAA Portland and JETAA-I Secretary Kay Dunkley of JETAA Jamaica.
“What is JETAA International?”
“Because of JET”
“Japan One Year Later” video by JET alum Owen Rojek
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A short video by JET alum Owen Rojek:
Job: Posting from Idealist.org 03.06.12
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Via idealist.org. Posted by Kay Monroe (Miyazaki-shi, 1995 -97).
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Position: International Program Coordinator
Posted by: NorthWest Student Exchange
Type: Full-time
Location: Seattle, WA
Salary: DOE
Start Date: As soon as possible
http://www.idealist.org/view/job/3HXw5wG4Z95P/
Responsibilities:
As a vital part of the NorthWest Student Exchange team, the International Program Coordinator will coordinate all aspects of the exchange programs for pre-placed high school students (primarily from Germany) and for U.S. students wishing to study abroad. *** Solid German speaking and writing skills***
JET News Roundup 3.6.2012
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By Filmore Ha (Ibaraki-ken, 2006-08). Filmore continues to live and work in the Greater Tokyo Area as an FAE and is also webmaster for JETAA Tokyo. He is actively seeking new opportunities in the U.S. or Canada.
- Akita Global Network Newsletter Vol. 5
Akita Prefecture released their latest news letter on 2/27. The AGN itself serves as a bridge to keep foreigners who have associated with Akita Prefecture up to date on the latest developments in the prefecture. The above link will take you two a page with two PDFs, one Eng. and one Jpn. If you prefer to receive the newsletter directly you will also find instructions to do so on this page. - JLGC Newsletter #72
The Japan Local Government Center in NY also released it’s 72nd newsletter last month. Of note are comments from participants on the 2011 Clair Fellowship Exchange Program, and a report about the JETAA International Meeting and their volunteer trip to Rikuzentakata. - Japaninfo Flash
The Consulate of Japan in NY published an issue of it’s Japaninfo Flash newsletter with information on Japan Society events commemorating the 1 year anniversary of the 3.11 Earthquake come up next week. - Doshinsha MBA Program
From Terry Vo, JET Program and MEXT Coordinator in Nashville, Doshinsha University in Kyoto is seeking former JETs to join it’s MBA Program. There are several former JETs on the program already, one is graduating soon, and several more will start in quarter 4 of this year. In addition there are also scholarship opportunities for those interested in the program. For more information, check out the link. - Sake World Newsletter #142
Are you a Sake lover? If so, checkout the Sake World Newsletter and be sure to subscribe. It’s choc full of interesting tidbits about Sake and brewing! - Win a pair of tickets to Japan via ANA
This has made the rounds on the net recently, so you may have already seen it. All Nippon Airways is running a campaign through March 31st where they will award a pair of tickets to Japan by lottery. To register you simply need to fill out a form so go check it out! - Texoma JETAA Trivia Night
The Texas/Oklahoma chapter of JETAA is having their first ever Trivia night at a local Houston pub for anyone in the area who is interested. The event is on Wednesday, March 7th from 7pm to 9pm. For more details check out the link.
JETAA Chapter Beat 3.5.12
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Jonathan Trace (Fukuoka-ken, 2005-08) takes us on a walk around the JET Alumni community for another edition of JETAA Chapter Beat.
Remember to check out a listing of JETAA Chapter Events related to the Anniversary of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami.
JETAA Philadelphia Subchapter (part of JETAANY)
- Tohoku Disaster One Year Anniversary and Film Screening – Sunday, March 11th, 2:00 to 4:30 at the Bellevue. The Japan American Society of Greater Philadelphia is screening NHK and MindTV’s short documentary “Radiation – Fighting the Invisible Enemy” as part of a fundraising and informational event. The program also includes a talk by the Honorary Consul of Japan in Philadelphia’s Dennis Morikawa, a bake sale, and reception.
- Cooking and Movie Afternoon – Sunday, March 11th, 12:00. The group in Philly is getting together to watch Japanese movies and socialize this Sunday. Bring your own dish and cook it up for a relaxing day of food, fun, and friends.
- Nihongo Dake Cooking Lesson – Saturday, March 10th, in Torrance. Learn how to cook authentic Japanese cuisine and practice your Nihongo at the same time as this month’s event.
- Career Mixer – Thursday, March 22nd, 5:00 to 8:00 at Perch. Make connections, grow your network and get together with your friends in JETAASC.
- JETAASC Charity for the 2011 Earthquake – Saturday, March 31st. More details coming soon.
- O-Shaberikai – Wednesday, March 7th, 6:00 at Coo Izakaya in Civic. Join in and meet Japanese people living in Canberra and other locals interested in Japan.
- Tohoku Earthquake Memorial Service – Sunday, March 11th, 4:00 at the Nara Peace Park. A memorial service will be held at Nara Peace Park to commemorate the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami and remember those who died as well as those who continue to be affected by the tragedy.
- March Monthly Meeting – Wednesday, March 7th, 6:30 at the Panama Cafe. Meet the new board members and find out about upcoming events and volunteer opportunities.
- TAO: The Way of the Drum – Monday, March 12th, 7:00, at the Nashville Schermerhorn Symphony. The TAO Taiko, martial arts, dance, and theater ensemble is coming to Nashville. Check out this amazing acrobatic and rhythmic experience.
- Nashville Cherry Blossom Festival – JETAA Music City will be giving mini-lectures at the Consulate General of Japan booth at this years festival, and is seeking speakers and volunteers. More information can be found at the festival website.
- Freelancing Career Panel – Monday, March 5th, 6:30 to 8:30 at the Japan Local Government Center. Jetwit’s own Steven Horowitz will be hosting a panel discussion on making a living through freelance work in today’s tough economic climate. It’s a great opportunity for JET Alumni to get together, share ideas and stories.
- Meishi Exchange – Thursday, March 15th, 6:30 – 9:00 at Amber Restaurant. Get together with JETAANY for its annual networking event with JET alumni and friends from other organizations around New York. Part of the funds will go towards helping the Japan Earthquake Relief Fund.
- JQ Magazine Seeking Writers for Spring 2012 – JETAANY’s magazine is seeking new writers among JET alumni from around the world to contribute. Story ideas and more information can be found here.
- Charity Screening of “Pray for Japan – Kokoro wa Hitotsu Ni” – Wednesday, March 14th, 7:00, at AMC Loews in Georgetown. A special screening of a documentary filmed by a DC local, in coordination of a national screening event in Tokyo, will be held to support the Japan Emergency NGO helping individuals who are still struggling to recover from the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami.
Loss of a JET: Michael Matts
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I was saddened to see in the March 3, 2012 issue of the JETAA Southern California Newsletter that Osaka JET Michael Hennessy Matts recently died. Here’s the text:
“JETAASC regrets to inform you of the death of Michael Hennessy Matts, an ALT serving in Osaka. A memorial service was held for Matts in Tucson on February 25th. Please follow the link for his full obituary and ways to help his family after his tragic death.”
From the obituary (http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tucson/obituary.aspx?n=michael-hennessey-matts&pid=155921357):
Michael Hennessey Matts
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Please feel free to share thoughts in the comments section of this post or in the Guest Book for the obituary.
At scenic Setogaro Gorge in Iwaki, fifth year JET Peter Gillam says people are not seeing Fukushima for everything it is. “What people need to know most about Fukushima is that it is a prefecture first, a city second, and a nuclear reactor a distant third,” he says. “Not the other way around.”
Who’s telling the truth about radiation in Japan, and why it might not matter anyway.
By James A. Foley (Fukushima-ken, 2007-10) for JQ magazine. James was one of eight American JET alums selected for the Tohoku Invitational Program sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Japan Tourism Agency.
Nastassja Vidro knew something was awfully wrong when the March air turned yellow.
It happened while she was outside on the playground with the eight students she taught English to at Shiramizu Elementary in Iwaki City, Japan, after the earth began to move.
Vidro, a 2007-2011 JET participant, was by then an old pro at earthquakes. She had lived in seismically active Japan nearly four years, and in California for more than two decades before that. But this quake was different. The earth rocked so violently that huge clouds of pollen erupted from the trees and hung in the air, casting the scene in an eerie hue.
The school principal ran outside, telling everyone to get in the center of the schoolyard and huddle together. Crouched on the ground with her students, Vidro kept waiting for the tremor to subside, but it went on. For six minutes.
She heard a fantastic noise—“like a monster roaring, not screeching, but deep, [and] I could hear the wood creak and bend and the earth move”—and ceramic shingles rattling off neighboring houses and shattering on the pavement.
She says she felt the ground quiver beneath her. She fixated on it, amazed.
“My hands were on the ground and the movement was pushing them off,” she says. “I’m not a very religious person, but I was praying so hard. I hoped the earth didn’t crack.”
She looked toward a fellow teacher, a Japan native, whose eyes were wide.
“I could see in her face that this was bad, that it was not an average earthquake,” she says.
JQ Magazine Seeks Writers for Spring 2012!
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Visit JQ's homepage at http://jetaany.org/magazine
As we march into spring, JETAA New York’s JQ magazine continues to provide content with an ever-expanding array of articles, interviews and features (see our recent stories here). We’re now looking for new writers, including recent returnees and JET vets, from all JETAA chapters worldwide for posting stories via our host at the global JET alumni resource site JETwit.com. (Scribes are also encouraged to join the JET Alumni Writers group on LinkedIn.)
Below are story ideas grouped by JET participants and alumni (JET World) and those more on Japanese culture (Japan World). If you’re a JET or JETWit contributor from anywhere in the world, we welcome your interest or additional story ideas! Contact JQ’s editor Justin Tedaldi (magazine [at] jetaany [dot] org) to sign up for stories, and click here to see the story ideas online.
Click “Read More” below for our spring 2012 ideas pitch package.
Justin’s Japan: March Movies at Japan Society, New York International Children’s Film Festival
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Makoto Shinkai’s ‘Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below’ is a modern-day Orpheus tale with a sci-fi twist that pays tribute to the great works of Hayao Miyazaki. (Courtesy of GKids)
By JQ magazine editor Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02). Visit his Japanese culture page on Examiner.com here for related stories.
Oscar season may be over, but this month offers a score of cinematic delights from Japan Society and the New York International Children’s Film Festival.
As part of its Love Will Tear Us Apart Globus Film Series, Japan Society presents outré love stories from Japan and Korea, including the U.S. premiere of Shinya Tsukamoto’s KOTOKO (March 2) and the world premiere of Koji Wakamatsu’s Petrel Hotel Blue (March 7) among 23 seminal films from the genre.
Other highlights include Hirokazu Kore’eda’s Air Doll (March 3), Nagisa Oshima’s arch-classic In the Realm of the Senses (March 16), Yukio Ninagawa’s Snakes and Earrings (March 16), Lee Sang-il’s Villain, (March 9) Lee Chang-dong’s Oasis, (March 18) and Kim Ki-duk’s Bad Guy, (March 10), among other twisted tales of star-crossed lovers on the rocks and on the run. (Click here for a complete list of films and showtimes).
For younger cineastes, the critically acclaimed New York International Children’s Film Festival kicks off its 15th anniversary event from March 2-25 at New York’s DGA Theater, Walter Reade Theater, IFC Center, Peter Norton Symphony Space, Asia Society, Scholastic Theater, and Cantor Film Center.
The nation’s largest festival for kids and teens will present four weeks of ground-breaking and thought-provoking new works for ages 3-18, with 100 new films, opening and closing galas, new feature premieres, six short film programs, filmmaker Q&As, filmmaking workshops, and the NYICFF Awards Ceremony. This year’s edition features three Japanese films from 2011.
For the complete story, click here.
Job: Student Services Representative (NY)
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Via JET alum Zachary Piper. Posted by Dipika Soni (Ishikawa-ken, 2003-06). Dipika has recently moved back to London but is interested in hearing about any Japan-related opportunities across the globe.
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***Note: If you apply for this position, please let them know you learned of it from JETwit. Thanks.***
Job Position: Student Services Representative (NY)
Job Details:
Reporting to the Embassy Study Center New York Student Services Manager, you will:
• Manage student records and student balances
• Take on Bursar duties, take new bookings, calculate accurate refunds, and so on
• Counsel students regarding issues or complaints
• Provide information about the school and promote additional sales to students
• Provide superior customer service
I’ll Make It Myself!: “Japanese Street Food and Foodpia Land 2012 (フードピアランド2012)”
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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.
I’ve noticed an increased interest by foreign bloggers and media regarding Japan’s (read: Tokyo, Kyoto) street food culture in the last month, and as I was at a large food fair in Kanazawa, I figured it was time to add my comments and photos to the table.
CLICK HERE to read the full post.
Job: Translator for Fukushima Panel Event (NYC)
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The New York Peace Film Festival will be held March 10-11 in New York City.
By JQ magazine editor Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02). Visit his Japanese culture page on Examiner.com here for related stories.
The producers of this year’s New York Peace Film Festival are seeking a translator for Sunday, March 4 and Monday, March 5 to assist with events leading up to the actual festival the following week at the Unitarian Church of All Souls.
The producers are now coordinating with local activists and guests from Japan for an entire week of events relating to Fukushima. There will be an energy expert, professors, and a worker from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi and Daini nuclear plant, who will speak to the public on March 5 at Riverside Church, and for emergency workers and first responders including doctors and others at Manhattanville College on March 6.
Due to the nature of panelists and audience on March 6, an able translator and interpreter is needed. This will be paid work. For more information, please e-mail NYPFF executive producer Yumi Tanaka at yumicomic [at] gmail [dot] com.
To read an interview with Yumi on last year’s New York Peace Film Festival, click here.
JETAA Auckland sends message of support to the town of Tomioka in Fukushima
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Thank you to JETAA Auckland Liaison Officer Jo McCarthy for sharing the following:
This video, made by JETAA Auckland, is a message of support for the town of Tomioka (in Fukushima Prefecture) with which Auckland has a friendship agreement.
Job: Program Assistant at Duke-UNC Rotary Center (Chapel Hill, NC)
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Via JET alum and JETAA North Carolina subchapter rep Kyle Munn . Posted by Dipika Soni (Ishikawa-ken, 2003-06). Dipika has recently moved back to London but is interested in hearing about any Japan-related opportunities across the globe.
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Job Position: Program Assistant at Duke-UNC Rotary Center (Chapel Hill, NC)
Job Details:
The Duke-UNC Rotary Center is hiring a Program Assistant for 30 hours per week (including benefits), at our UNC office in Chapel Hill.
Anyone interested should apply directly to the UNC Human Resources Office at http://hr.unc.edu/careers-at-carolina/open-positions. The requisition number is 0060756. Closing date is March 9, 2012.
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Job: Sales with Japanese Company (NYC)
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Via Actus Consulting. Posted by Dipika Soni (Ishikawa-ken, 2003-06). Dipika has recently moved back to London but is interested in hearing about any Japan-related opportunities across the globe.
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***Note: If you apply for this position, please let them know you learned of it from JETwit. Thanks.***
Job Position: Sales with Japanese Company (NYC)
Job Details:
Japanese rental space company established in 2005. Established their NY office in 2010 and is trying to develop their business in NYC area. They offer wide range of office space to various businesses for conventions, events and seminars.
– Company size: Approximately 400 in Japan , NY office has 2 employees
– Capital: $3 million
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