Job: Purchasing Assistant at Major Japanese Telecommunication Company (NYC)
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Via Actus Consulting:
Title: Purchasing Assistant at Major Japanese Telecommunication Company
Location: Midtown, Manhattan
Starting Date: July 13th
Job Description:
- Equipment Purchase
-Equipment Purchase Administration- Place an order to vendors according to Purchase Plan Form in a timely manner.
-Maintain the order status and feed back to sales rep. or the concerned accordingly.
-Keep records for other process like acceptance and account payable.
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Job: Retail Manager and Store Clerk Positions Available (Torrance, CA)
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Via JETAA Southern California:
Position: Retail Manager
Company Name: Interplace Inc.
City: Torrance
Job responsibilities and qualifications:
- Manage a retail store of sports related products.
- Japanese language skill is a plus.
- Must have great communication skill.
- Must be interested in sports.
Description: Full-time(including weekends)/permanent position with benefits. The salary is apex $13/hr.
How to apply: Please send WORD formatted resume to fumi[at]interplace-agency[dot]com.
Job: Secretary to Senior Diplomats of the Permanent Mission of Japan to the UN (NYC)
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Via JETAA New York:
The Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations is seeking a Secretary to senior diplomats at the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
1. Manage appointment schedules and prepare daily and weekly schedule for senior diplomats
2. Respond to telephone calls, both incoming and outgoing, with efficiency and professional etiquette
3. Coordinate logistics/protocol for conferences, meetings, briefings, receptions, and other official functions
4. Draft and prepare letters and diplomatic correspondence
5. Prepare and mail invitation cards for official functions
6. Prepare and mail greeting cards for senior diplomats
7. Prepare table cards and tray cards for luncheons and dinners
8. Research topics related to the United Nations and Japan as required by the Mission staff members
9. Update and develop contact information including the bio of VIPs as well as invitation list databases
10. Receive and sort incoming mail
11. Assist the official functions as a receptionist
12. Receive guests and serve tea
13. Respond to inquiries
14. Give oral or written briefings to senior diplomats dependent on the situation
15. Receive dictation from senior diplomats, take accurate and quick notes, and keep records or write up summaries as required Read More
New Google Group for JetWit Job Listings!
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We’ve set up a Google Group called JetWitJobs for distributing job listings on a current basis. The group is open to JET alumni, current JETs and of course Friends of JET.
Sign up if you’d like to receive alerts of new job listings from JetWit.
(Note: Jobs can only be posted by the group administrators. If you have a good job listing for the JET alumni community, please send an e-mail to jetwit [at] jetwit [dot] com.)
Click HERE to sign up for JetWitJobs: http://groups.google.com/group/jetwitjobs?hl=en
Job: Sales Representative for Sysco Foods (Ventura, CA)
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Via JETAASC:
Sysco is the largest foodservice distributor in the U.S. It’s Ventura location is seeking an outside Sales Representatives in the San Fernando Valley. Sales Representatives are responsible for performing various sales, customer service, and credit activities, including but not limited to the following:
Sales Activities:
- Increase existing accounts sales through the presentation of products, ideas, uses, and applications of products to meet sales and profit objectives.
- Develops new accounts through analysis, personal and telephone contacts, and other sales techniques.
Customer Service:
- Updates customer on a continuous basis about new products, services, and pricing information to enhance customer satisfaction.
- Provides service to existing accounts by resolving any customer issues and concerns.
Credit Activities:
- Provides customers with company credit terms and manage credit conditions to maximize sales opportunities as well as maintain receivables levels.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Must be bilingual English and Japanese.
- Sales experience required, food sales experience a plus.
- Proficient in basic computer skills (Windows, MS office, Outlook).
- High School diploma required.
- Must be able to work independently.
Compensation depending on experience. Excellent benefits.
Please email resume to hrm[at]ventura[dot]sysco[dot]com.
Job: Program Coordinator at the Consulate General of Japan in Nashville
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This job opening came via Emily Winckler (Niigata-ken, 2002-05), the Cultural Affairs Division Program Coordinator at the Consulate General of Japan in Nashville:
Program Coordinator at the Consulate General of Japan in Nashville
This is the position that coordinates the JET Progam process along with several other programs and activities. If interested, tune up your 6-string (guitar, banjo or shamisen) and get your resume ready for the folks in Music City.
Click the link below for full details and application info:
http://www.nashville.us.emb-japan.go.jp/en/culture/JET/JET%20Coordinator%20Position.htm
Travel: Aitai Japan
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aitai Japan
I just found out about an interesting travel website called aitai Japan (translation: “I want to meet” Japan) (www.aitaijapan.com), which bills itself as an “association for independent tourist assistance in Japan” and explains that it is “a guide/interpreter service with listings of enthusiastic volunteer guides who can offer free tourist assistance for independent travelers on their visit to Japan.”
It reminds me of a great organization in New York City called Big Apple Greeters (a good place for JET alums to volunteer, by the way) which pairs up a volunteer with any visitors to New York looking for a friendly local to walk around with for a few 
hours. Except aitaiJapan seems to be doing this on a national level and really helping tourists cross through what can seem like intimidating language and cultural barriers to non-Japanese.
If anyone out there has had any contact or experience with aitaiJapan, please feel free to share, either by posting a comment or by sending an email to JetWit.
Event: Children’s book illustrators gather for Bologna Children’s Book Fair (Tokyo)
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Author Suzanne Kamata (Tokushima-ken, 1988-90) who also serves as the Publicity Assistant for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, shared the following:
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators presents
Creative Exchange: The Bologna Experience with Ayano Imai, Kiyo Tanaka and Shimako Okamura
Come join illustrators Ayano Imai and Kiyo Tanaka plus designer/illustrator Shimako Okamura as they share their experiences at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, the most important global event in the children’s publishing industry. Included in the topics shared at this exchange of ideas and information will be first-hand experiences of being selected for the Illustrators Exhibition, opportunities that resulted from attending the fair, and more. Visit the Bologna Book Fair site (www.bookfair.bolognafiere.it) before this event, and bring along all your questions and ideas about submitting to the exhibition and promoting your work at the book fair.
Time: Saturday, July 11, 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Place: Tokyo Women’s Plaza, Conference Room 1
5-53-67 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo (by the Children’s Castle and United Nations University) For a map see www.scbwi.jp/map.htm
Fee: SCBWI members 1,000 yen; non-members 1,500 yen
This event will be in English and Japanese.
Hello! I’m Kelly – RSS feed fiend and fellow former Iwate ALT (indeed, just like the Blog Beat’s own Crystal Wong!). Fret not, Crystal has not forsaken the JET blogosphere. There are just so many blogs to keep up with that I have offered to lend her a hand on occasion.
Now to get on to the goods – more new blogs than you can shake a stick at!
* A favorite blog of mine and one that I personally recommended for the blog roll is Japandra. This little treasure-trove of a blog is brought to you by Sandra, a NY expat and JET alum currently living in Tokyo, who has keen eye for those little irregular hilarities which sneak into the Japanese landscape. What are you waiting for? That fuzzy natsukashii “Haha, only in Japan!” feeling is just a click away…
* Sean Sakamoto of I’d Rather Be in Japan lives it up in the wild and wondrous beauty of Gifu. In one of his most recent posts he brings the forest to us in an excellent home-made video series on how to harvest, prepare, and enjoy eating…bamboo!
* Next up is Jason’s Adventures in Rural Japan (aka Shimane). Although Jason is currently packing up to return to the U.S., his blog is a great place to peruse his selection of the past year’s omoshiroi Japanese YouTube videos.
* Are you a prospective JET itching to find more information about the JET teaching experience in rural areas? If so (or even if not!), check out Mel’s Adventures in Japan.
* Take some time to enjoy the comedic writing style of Steve Rogers, a lover of all things list-worthy (he even writes lists… about lists!), who does very well keeping his sense of humor while enduring Northern Tohoku Exposure.
* D. Freeman – photographer, web guru, and writer – takes his readers on a myriad of viral-worthy adventures. Check his site to find out what is the What-What on the interweb today.
* Finally, we would like to introduce another successful JET writer Christy Burne (Hyogo-ken) who has just been given the first Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices book award, an award that aims to celebrate cultural diversity in children’s literature. Her book, Takeshita Demons, will be published next year and is based on the adventures of a Japanese schoolgirl named Miku. Be sure to keep up with all the exciting developments for Christy!
Job: Resident Director, Japan Center for Michigan Universities (Shiga-ken, Japan)
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This nifty job listing was shared by Nina Morgenlander, a longtime Friend of JET who works in the field of international education programs:
RESIDENT DIRECTOR, JAPAN CENTER FOR MICHIGAN UNIVERSITIES (JCMU) Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
The Resident Director is responsible for managing and administering JCMU academic programs, day-to-day operations of the Center, including the budget and supervising students, staff, and faculty. Other duties include teaching a Japanese Culture and Society course, representing the JCMU consortium in public functions, and maintaining communications with MSU and relevant Japanese and American associates. Read More
J-News Mini-Roundup: Death Threats on Wikipedia, in Japan
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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.
Scene from "The Grudge"
Background: Japan is a perfect example of how the internet’s reach has gone global. One way to measure popularity of the internet is how many websites have been translated to other languages besides English, and Japanese has no shortage of translations in cyberspace. The internet in Japan has become a popular tool for commerce and social networking.
However, Japan is relatively new to abuses of the internet. Although sometimes incidents such as the Akihabara hit and run (06/08) were written about on blogs before the event took place, big websites such as Wikipedia have not seen abuse yet from users. The newspapers each had their own take on the “Wikipedia Incident”, the first documented arrest for abusing the Wikipedia website in Japan.
Asahi “3 Boys Charged with Writing Death Threat Articles”
(CLICK HERE for the rest of the article, that includes Japanese News Summaries)
Job: Senior Campaigners/Strategists-International Movement Team for Purpose Campaigns (NYC or elsewhere)
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(Internships also available)
Is there anyone out there in the JETAA-sphere facing financial difficulties, considering bankruptcy, worrying about foreclosure?
If so, feel free to e-mail your questions to me at jetwit [at] jetwit [dot] com.
I’m no longer a practicing bankruptcy lawyer, but I work in the bankruptcy world (see, e.g., the Bankruptcy Bill cartoon) and figured I could at least try to help out and get answers to any questions JET alums and Friends of JET out there might have. I might even be able to recommend a good lawyer for you, depending where you live.
I’ll keep all of your information confidential. However, if you give me permission, I would like to anonymously post your question and the eventual response on JetWit for the benefit of other readers.
Lastly, for your entertainment, here’s a post about an engaging blog titled “Love in the Time of Foreclosure” by a writer who is going through foreclosure with her husband. In a lot of ways, it’s more about love than about foreclosure, and kind of captures the zeitgeist of the times in which we’re living.
Job: Change.org seeks online organizer (NY, SF or DC)
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Shared with JetWit by JETAA NY Webmaster Lee-Sean Huang (2003-06) (Please do not contact Lee-Sean to apply for this job.):
Change.org is Hiring an Online Organizer
http://jobs.change.org/view/PWutSUyzgW
Want to help run advocacy campaigns on behalf of dozens of issues in collaboration with 500,000 activists and 4,000 organizations?
Change.org is hiring a full-time online organizer to help create, manage, and promote advocacy campaigns for its 20 causes. The online organizer will:
1. Work directly with Change.org’s growing team of bloggers to identify opportunities for creating effective grassroots campaigns on a daily basis;
2. Serve as the point of contact with Change.org’s thousands of nonprofit partners to improve their campaigns;
3. Maintain a pulse on the most popular and effective campaigns across the web to feature on Change.org, and;
4. Raise awareness about particularly newsworthy campaigns through social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
The online strategist will also work with Change.org’s executive team to craft overall site strategy and oversee several major upcoming projects to be announced in the fall.
Applicants should have experience with strategizing and executing online advocacy campaigns, an interest in social media, and an excitement about working in a small, fast-growing organization. We welcome applicants of all ages – from young online organizers eager for more responsibility to seasoned veterans looking to oversee a diverse array of campaigns.
The position can be held in San Francisco, New York or Washington, DC. Pay is competitive.
To apply, send a brief introduction about your experience and a resume and/or Linkedin profile to organizer[at]change[dot]org.
WIT Life #43: ひったくり
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WITLife is a periodic series written by professional Interpreter/Translator/Writer Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken, 2000-03). Recently she’s been watching Fujisankei’s newscast in Japanese and sharing some of the interesting tidbits and trends together with her own observations.
Japan’s status as a crime free haven is being further tarnished by an increase in a kind of petty thievery known as ひったくり (hittakuri) or bag snatching. The culprits make their moves while on motorbikes, bicycles or even on foot, and many times their distracted victims do not notice them until it is too late. According to a policeman, as they are often arrested holding little or no money of their own, it is thought that these crimes are committed out of economic need.
Hittakuri has a comparatively low arrest rate, primarily because Read More
