Job: JETAA UK – Job Vacancies
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via JETAA UK. Posted by Dipika Soni (Ishikawa-ken, 2003-06). Dipika currently works as an in-house translator for PFU (a Fujitsu company) in Kahoku-shi, Ishikawa-ken. She is also the vocalist for the Japanese hardcore punk band DEGRADE.
*Note: If you apply for this position, please let them know you learned of it from JetWit. Thanks.
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Several new Job listings from JETAA UK. You must be signed up to view the posts.
Japanese speaking Sales
http://www.jetaa.org.uk/jobs/japanese-speaking-sales-2/
Recruitment Consultant
http://www.jetaa.org.uk/jobs/recruitment-consultanta/
Accuracy Checker
http://www.jetaa.org.uk/jobs/accuracy-checker/
Researcher
http://www.jetaa.org.uk/jobs/researcher-4/
Sales Manager
http://www.jetaa.org.uk/jobs/sales-manager-2/
Job: Account Executive, Japanese Freight Company (NY)
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via Pasona. Posted by Dipika Soni (Ishikawa-ken, 2003-06). Dipika currently works as an in-house translator for PFU (a Fujitsu company) in Kahoku-shi, Ishikawa-ken. She is also the vocalist for the Japanese hardcore punk band DEGRADE.
*Note: If you apply for this position, please let them know you learned of it from JetWit. Thanks.
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Job Position: Account Executive, Japanese Freight Company (NY)
Job Details:
Full Time position / Salary range: 40K to 60K
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Job: Listening Therapy Facilitator (Bellevue)
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via Pacific Northwest JETAA. Posted by Dipika Soni (Ishikawa-ken, 2003-06). Dipika currently works as an in-house translator for PFU (a Fujitsu company) in Kahoku-shi, Ishikawa-ken. She is also the vocalist for the Japanese hardcore punk band DEGRADE.
*Note: If you apply for this position, please let them know you learned of it from JetWit. Thanks.
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Job Position: Listening Therapy Facilitator (Bellevue)
Job Details:
The Sacarin Center, specializing in the Tomatis Listening Method, is looking for a part time Listening Therapy Facilitator for the Bellevue office starting immediately.
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Job: Dodgers – Asian Operations Assistant
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via Machiko Yasuda. Posted by Dipika Soni (Ishikawa-ken, 2003-06). Dipika currently works as an in-house translator for PFU (a Fujitsu company) in Kahoku-shi, Ishikawa-ken. She is also the vocalist for the Japanese hardcore punk band DEGRADE.
*Note: If you apply for this position, please let them know you learned of it from JetWit. Thanks.
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Job Position: Asian Operations Assistant (Los Angeles Dodgers)
Job Details:
The Asian Operations Assistant will assist the department Director and Senior Manager with the day to day office management.
Job: Turkey hiring 40,000 English teachers
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via Pacific Northwest JETAA. Posted by Dipika Soni (Ishikawa-ken, 2003-06). Dipika currently works as an in-house translator for PFU (a Fujitsu company) in Kahoku-shi, Ishikawa-ken. She is also the vocalist for the Japanese hardcore punk band DEGRADE.
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Check here for the article:
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-239130-turkey-to-hire-40000-native-english-speakers-as-guest-teachers.html
Job: Associate TV News Producer/Researcher (Washington DC)
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via JETAA NY. Posted by Dipika Soni (Ishikawa-ken, 2003-06). Dipika currently works as an in-house translator for PFU (a Fujitsu company) in Kahoku-shi, Ishikawa-ken. She is also the vocalist for the Japanese hardcore punk band DEGRADE.
*Note: If you apply for this position, please let them know you learned of it from JetWit. Thanks.
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Job Position: Associate TV News Producer/Researcher
Job Description:
Nippon Television is Japan’s one of largest commercial broadcaster, and the Washington DC Bureau is responsible for covering political affairs in the United States for our Japanese audience.
2:46 Quakebook project
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Via a recent article in the Wall Street Journal:
The 2:46 Quakebook Project is “a Twitter-sourced collection of personal accounts of the quake and its aftermath….one group’s response to the disaster initiated by the local blogging community that aims to raise money for relief efforts (the title refers to the time at which the magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck on March 11).”
Note: All proceeds will go to the Japanese Red Cross.
Taylor Anderson memorial service in Richmond, VA
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The below was sent by JETAA DC to its members via its chapter yahoogroup:
We have extended the deadline for messages in Taylor Anderson’s condolence book until Friday, April 1 at 12 pm. It doesn’t matter if your message is long or short, profound or emotional, we encourage you to send it to jetaadc.311relief [at] gmail.com. Members of the JETAADC Board will present the condolence book to Taylor’s family at a service to be held in Richmond on Saturday.
For more information on Taylor’s life, her experiences on JET, and Saturday’s service, please visit the website of the Richmond-Times Dispatch<http://www.legacy. com/obituaries/ timesdispatch/ obituary. aspx?n=taylor- anderson& pid=149794411>.
The family asks that in lieu of flowers, a donation be made to the Taylor Anderson Memorial Fund for the purpose of rebuilding schools in Ishinomaki City. Donation information is available here: http://www.st. catherines. org/tayloranders on.
Regards,
Leigh Ann Mastrini
Outreach Chair, JETAADC
Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE/USA) Update: 03.30-03.31.11
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The Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE/USA) has been an excellent source of updates via the earthquake section of its website as well as its Facebook page. The kind of info you’re likely not getting from CNN or network news. Notably, JET alum James Gannon (Ehime-ken, 1992-94) is the Director of JCIE/USA’s New York office. Here’s the latest update:
March 30 – 31 Fund Update: http://www.jcie.org/earthquakeupdate.html
- Increasing signs of mental health issues from stress to ‘survivors guilt’.
- Also, Peace Winds through its partner organization – Mercy Corps – reports on the attention and care being provided to children.
CLAIR 2011 “JET Streams Newsletter”
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Via CLAIR Tokyo:
Dear JET alumni,
- Here’s a link to the online version of this year’s JET Streams newsletter: http://www.jetprogramme.org/e/former/jetstreams.html
- Here’s a link directly to the PDF: http://www.jetprogramme.org/documents/pubs/JET%20STREAMS2011.pdf
JET Streams is distributed once a year to all JET alumni who request it and have registered their email address with CLAIR. Be sure to keep your email address updated so that you keep receiving JET Streams.
CLAIR would like to thank all the JETAA chapters and current/former JETs who contributed articles for this year’s JET Streams.
Table of Contents
- Greetings from Yoko Kimura, Chairperson of the Board of Directors
- JETAA Singapore: The New Kid on the Block
- JETAA Tokyo: A Closer Look
- JET Alumni Voices:
- Lorelei Cortez (Hyogo-ken, Santo-shi, 2004-07) of JETAA Northern California
- “Better Than a Thousand Days of Diligent Study” – Cristy Burne (Hyogo-ken, 1998-00) of JETAA Western Australia (Perth)
- “Shashinka – A Cultural and Visual Inspiration” – Stirling Elmendorf (Tokushima-ken, 2001-04) of JETAA Northern California
- Current JET Perspectives: “JET Island Life: Photographic Perspectives”
- JETAA International Meeting in Scotland
- Introduction of 2011-12 JETAA International Executive Committee
- Setting Up a JETAA Chapter
- From CLAIR Department of JET Program Management
- JETAA Chapter Representatives/Information
- Cartoon: “Final Thoughts” by David Namisato (CIR Aomori-ken, Ajigasawa-machi)
- “Words from the Editor” by Christian Tsuji
Anthony Bianchi back in Brooklyn for “Xaverian High School Japan Benefit Concert” tonight
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Just heard from JET alum, Brooklyn native and current Inuyama City Councilman Anthony Bianchi (Aichi-ken, Inuyama-shi) that he’s back in New York for a very short stay in order to attend his alma mater Xaverian High School‘s “Japan Benefit Concert” tonight (Thursday, March 31).
Anthony notes that any JET alums around are welcome to come. [Ed. Note: Sorry for the short notice. I wasn’t able to post this until 4:21 pm and it starts at 7:00 pm.]
Start time: 7:00 pm
Location: Xaverian High School, 71st St & Shore Road in Brooklyn
Cost: $10
NY’s Japan Society announces allocation of Japan Earthquake Relief Fund
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New York’s Japan Society has released full details about the non-profit organizations in Japan that will receive the first allocation of funds from Japan Society’s Japan Earthquake Relief Fund. Read on for their press release…
New York, NY – Japan Society today announced four Japanese nonprofit organizations that will receive a total of $1,000,000 in the first installment of funding from the Society’s Japan Earthquake Relief Fund for relief and recovery work in northeastern Japan.
The four organizations – Tokyo Volunteer Network for Disaster Relief, JEN, Entrepreneurial Training for Innovative Communities (ETIC), and the Japan NPO Center – are involved in immediate relief efforts to help victims of the earthquake and tsunamis that struck Japan on March 11, 2011.
“Each organization is on the front lines in Japan and is playing an important role in the relief process,” Japan Society President Motoatsu Sakurai said. “We are pleased to provide financial support to these groups.”
Minamisanriku JET Kathryn Oi shares her experience of the earthquake and tsunami
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Kathryn Oi (Miyagi-ken, Minamisanriku-shi) has shared a deeply personal description of her experience in the midst of one of the hardest hit towns by the earthquake and tsunami–Minamisanriku, which has lost approximately half of its 18,000 residents. The link below to the written piece which appears on the Claremon-McKenna College website where Kathryn went to college also includes a slideshow of before-and-after photos taken by Kathryn.
http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/news/japan2011.php
Katie Oi ’10 was teaching at a junior high school in Japan when the earthquake and tsunami hit the island. She offers the following firsthand account of the week following the disaster and her journey to safety. Katie is now back at home in Seattle, WA.
After a two hour nap or even a night’s long rest, I wake up suddenly feeling uneasy with a feeling like I had a bad dream somewhere deep within my slumber. It takes me even a few seconds to process where I am—back home in the comfort of my own bed—when it was just two weeks ago I was pinned in the heart of Mother Nature’s deadliest attack on Japan. I have to keep telling myself that the past two weeks were not a dream. What I witnessed was real: the devastation from a M9.0 earthquake and 30-meter tsunami, but also the perseverance to rise up as a people and continue to live in spite of all that.
CLICK HERE to read the full piece on the Claremont-McKenna College website.
Correction 3/31/11: Katie e-mailed to point out that she incorrectly mentioned the tsunami as 30 meters a couple times in her piece. The actual reported height, she says, was 16 meters.
Fundraising: Instructions for donating directly to Iwate prefectural government
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The following information was shared by JET alum Susan Pickett (Iwate-ken, Miyako-shi) who helped gather information for anyone who would like to donate directly to the Iwate prefectural government. The information is also available via the Facebook group “Grassroots Aide for Iwate“ (which I believe was set up by a JET alum, but not sure).
Note: JETwit.com does not advocate for or recommend any one particular charity or relief effort. This is just one more helpful example of JET alums helping to facilitate donations to Japan.
What Can I do?
I spent a year teaching English in Iwate Prefecture (Miyako) in the Tohoku Region- (northern Japan), and ever since the earthquake, I have been asking myself what can I do to help the people of Iwate and in particular those in the coastal towns severely hit by the tsunami.
Iwate Prefecture has set up a Disaster Relief Fund for the citizens affected by the earthquake and tsunami.
The Iwate Prefectural Site in Japanese is here: http://www.pref.iwate.jp/index.rbz Information on Iwate and the Great Tohoku Earthquake
Wikipedia info on the earthquake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami#Japan
Charity information on the Iwate Prefecture site (English) (PDF): http://sv032.office.pref.iwate.jp/~bousai/taioujoukyou/gienkin_kaigai2.pdf
Charity Donations for the Great Tohoku Earthquake Disaster
Those who want to make a direct contribution to Iwate Prefectural victims and affected areas from overseas can make a bank transfer to the following location. The government of Iwate has a committee to decide how to distribute the funds. Those who want to make a direct contribution to Iwate Prefectural victims and affected areas from overseas can make a bank transfer to the following location.
1 Bank Transfer Account Information
- Bank (JPN: 銀行名)
- The Bank of Iwate, Ltd(JPN: 岩手銀行)
- SWIFT Code
- SWIFT: BAIWJPJT
- Branch: Kencho Branch(JPN: 県庁支店)
- Branch No: 009
- Account No. :009-2016634
- Beneficiary’s Name (JPN: 口座名義):Iwate Prefecture Disaster Relief Charity Committee (JPN: 岩手県災害義援金募集委員会)
- Beneficiary’s Address/Telephone Number (JPN: 住所/電話番号): Japan, Iwate-ken, Morioka-shi, Uchimaru 10-1 Office of Health and Welfare Planning Iwate Prefectural Government Tel :019-629-5408
*(Note: Please remember that there may be bank charges involved with transferring money overseas)
2 Issuances of Receipts
- For those that require a receipt for their charitable donation, please download the following form : http://sv032.office.pref.iwate.jp/~bousai/taioujoukyou/gienkin_kaigai2_yousiki.pdf
- Fill out your address, name, transfer account information, and amount of money donated. Then send that form by mail, fax, or email to the Office of Health and Welfare Planning of the Iwate Government (the address is written below).
3 Distribution of Charitable Donations
A separate committee will be formed to decide how to distribute charity funds.
- < Iwate Prefecture Disaster Relief Charity Committee >
- 〒020-8570 Iwate-ken, Morioka-shi, Uchimaru 10-1
- Office of Health and Welfare Planning
- Iwate Prefectural Government
- TEL 019-629-5408 FAX 019-629-5419 Email AD0001 [at] pref.iwate.jp
Miyagi JET writes of ruin, survival, rebuilding
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The below letter by current JET Waylon Bryson (Miyagi-ken, Sendai-shi) appeared recently in the Washington State University student publication where Bryson attended college.
The following letter was sent to WSU history instructor Roger Chan, who taught author Waylon Bryson, a philosophy graduate of 2007. Chan shared it with Noriko Kawamura, associate professor of history, who passed it on for WSU Today to share with the university community. Bryson is working in Sendai, Japan as an English teacher. This fall he will attend Vanderbilt Law in Nashville, Tenn.
I have lived in the city of Sendai, Japan for the past three and a half years, where I teach English for the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme. I was at my desk in the teachers’ room of Hachiken Junior High School when the earthquake struck.
Earthquakes are quite common in Japan and I, like the other staff members, paid little attention at first.
Then the room moved several feet. I had to physically hold onto my desk so that it wouldn’t move away from me. A control panel on the wall lit up like a Christmas tree and alarm bells started sounding. I could hear students screaming from the floors above as cracks snaked along the concrete walls and the building started groaning ominously.
CLICK HERE to read the full article on the WSU Today site.
