Lee-Sean Huang (Oita-ken, 2003-06), JETAA NY’s webmaster and a grad student in NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, will be presenting his interactive music interface, the head(banger)
phones, at the Interactive Telecommunications Winter Show at NYU this
Wednesday and Thursday nights (tonight and tomorrow night). So drop in to take a look. (721 Broadway, 4th Fl – just east of Washington Sq Park)
The show features a variety of interactive sights, sounds and physical
objects created by student artists. The show is FREE and open to the
public. No need to RSVP. Just show up any time during the 2 nights.
http://itp.nyu.edu/shows/winter2008/
Dec. 17th & 18th from 5pm to 9pm
@ 721 Broadway, 4th Fl
Lee-Sean AKA JETAANY.org Webmaster
http://leesean.net
Events, JETAA Chapter Beat, JETAA Chapters, Uncategorized, Writers 
Comments Off on JETAA Chapter Beat 12.17.08
Freelance writer/editor Jonathan Trace (Fukuoka-ken, 2005-08) takes us on a walk around the JET Alumni community…
JETAA Texoma
What happened at your chapter’s event? If you attend(ed) any of these exciting events, JetWit would love to hear about them. Just email Jonathan Trace with any info, stories or comments.
Blogs, Food & Drink, Writers Comments Off on Thank God for Fridays in Japan – by Peter Weber
Peter Weber (Saitama-ken, Gyoda-shi, 2004-07) is the JET Coordinator at the Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco.
This is how I remember it… As previously mentioned, even though I had overcome many of my dietary obstacles, I still hungered for “American Cuisine”. Although McDonald’s was always easily accessible, it was only a temporary “fix”.
I wanted a more hearty burger. So I went to the place where all answers are found… the internet. After searching words like “Applebees”, “Chili’s”, and “Fuddruckers” I finally hit the jackpot. My salvation was when I entered three wonderful letters followed by one word that makes everyone happy. Located less than 50 miles away in Ueno we found our salvation, and it came with a Happy Hour!
Career, Events, JETAA Chapters, Networking Comments Off on JETAA Pacific Northwest Career Day Notes
From Shun Endo, PNW’s Treasurer & Web Guy, who posted the notes on the JETAA PNW website:
Career Day was a very successful event, bringing in many motivated participants, solid speakers, and even vendors from several companies. Many people stayed until the end, and went afterwards for drinks and comradery. The content of the speeches was very helpful, and it covered a broad range of topics. As promised, we have the notes to the speeches, as well as resources to the information given!
Thanks again to Steven Pascal-Joiner of Idealist.org , and Rob Uy from Microsoft HR, and the panel speakers for their respective insights. They were: Amy Fenning , Amanda Wolfman , Keith Nitta , David Sandler , Megan Bernard , Rob Uy , Matt Austin , Steven Pascal-Joiner. Thanks to Ben for moderating the discussion.
Here are the links:
Rob Uy Speech Notes
Steven Pascal Joiner Speech Notes
Idealist.org Presentation by Steven (PDF of E-book, and links to different topics covered by Steven)
Uncategorized Comments Off on Britney Spears–ALT?
Watch Britney Spears on Japanese tv in 2008 and on the same tv show back in 1999. I find that celebrity appearances on Japanese tv always help me re-live my own awkward experiences from my days as an ALT, and I think it’s somehow reassuring to know that even celebrities are reduced to the same awkward smiling, laughing and discomfort that most JETs have felt at some point.
Contest, Translating/Interpreting, Writers Comments Off on Translators Mini-Challenge #3
Translators Mini-Challenge is a new arbitrarily recurring feature presented by professional translator, interpreter and writer Kia Cheleen (CIR, Aichi-ken 1996-98, ALT 1998-1999).
Welcome to this week’s JetWit Translators Mini-Challenge! The first person to respond by email to jetwit /atto/ jetwit /dotto/ com with the correct English translation of the below Japanese term will win a free Gaijin-a-Go-Go CD (Go-Go Bootcamp)!
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Stay tuned for the next Mini-Challenge! You never know when we’ll strike again!
Blogs, Books, Cartoon/Illustration, Writers Comments Off on JET alum Robert Weston’s “Zorgamazoo” wins New York Bookbinders Guild award
Robert P. Weston (Nara-ken, 2002-04) reports on his blog (wayofthewest.wordpress.com) that his book Zorgamazoo, just published this year, has won “some sort of design award” from the New York Bookbinders Guild.
This means, he explains, that the book will be on diplay at the New York Book Show on March 24, 2009. He goes on to extend “huge congratulations” to Christian Fuenfhausen, who designed the interior pages, Natalie Sousa, who designed the cover art, and the whole design team at Razorbill Books and Penguin USA.
Article/Journalism, Books, Celebrity, Japan Trends, Roland Kelts, Uncategorized, Writers Comments Off on JET alum Roland Kelts quoted in The New Yorker
Roland Kelts (Osaka, 1998-99), author of Japanamerica, was quoted or mentioned this week in articles in:
Jobs, Translating/Interpreting Comments Off on Job: Translators needed (Philadelphia area)
From Craigslist Philadelphia. Not clear what the job is, so I’m guessing it might be a translation agency that is just generally looking to recruit people in the Philadelphia area. That said, it’s always a good idea to use caution when applying for anything via Craigslist.
Reply to: gigs-958606080@craigslist.org [?]
Date: 2008-12-15, 10:58AM EST
Interpreters and translators needed!
Albanian * Arabic * Armenian * Bengali * Cambodian * Cantonese * Chinese *Farsi French * German * Greek * Gujarati * Haitian Creole * Hindu *Indonesian * Italian Japanese * Korean * Malayalam * Persian * Polish * Portuguese * Russian * Serbian * Sign Language * Spanish * Turkish * Ukrainian * Vietnamese * And much, much more!
Please note that this is a contractual, freelance position. Frequency and
length of work will depend solely on our clients and their needs.
All interpreters must be in the nothern New Jersey area or Philadelphia tri-state area.
Any experience and/ or training is desired. Native speakers of source language also desired.
If interested, please respond by email. Only serious inquires please.
-Monique Young
Blogs, Cartoon/Illustration, Humor, Writers Comments Off on Bankruptcy Bill #7: Debtor Education
Bankruptcy Bill is a cartoon created by Steven Horowitz (Aichi-ken, 1992-94) and Gideon Kendall. To see more strips as well as bankruptcy haiku, go to bankruptcybill.wordpress.com.
Career, Japan Trends, Translating/Interpreting, WIT Life, Writers Comments Off on WITLife #8 – Christmas Cakes and Monolingual Nobel Prize Winners
WITLife is a periodic series written by professional Interpreter/Translator/Writer Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken, 2000-03).
My posts from last week were largely doom and gloom about the current economic woes, so I thought I’d start this week with something lighter from recent Japanese TV news—the topic of Christmas cake! Definitely a big deal in Japan.
(For those unfamiliar, Japanese Christmas focused primarily on Christmas Eve. The actual holiday is a regular workday, to the dismay of many an English teacher. It is a secular celebration where couples and families get together to eat typical Christmas fare such as Kentucky fried chicken and strawberry shortcake.)
The TV news this past Friday profiled the major department store Matsuya in Ginza, which sells 25 million cakes during the three day period from the 23rd until Christmas. The cakes that are selected to be featured in its seasonal catalog basically determine how the year’s profits will turn out.
An essential part of the selection process are the taste-testers who decide on certain ingredients. This year’s hot commodity was Read More
Jobs, Translating/Interpreting Comments Off on Job: Tanslators for Japanese legal doc review (DC)
Reply to: job-952344640@craigslist.org [?]
Date: 2008-12-10, 9:44AM EST
Geotext Translations is a dynamic and rapidly growing company, serving over 600 law firms and corporations, with offices in New York City, San Francisco, and London. We provide premier foreign-language services to top firms worldwide.
Bilingual translators and/or lawyers who are fluent in Japanese and English wanted for potential on-site document review assignment at law office in the DC metropolitan area. This position would involve full time work for about 6-12 months.
ON-SITE ONLY.
Requirements:
– Legal experience (JD preferred)
– Translation/document review experience
– Fluency in English and Japanese languages
We will contact people in whom we are interested for language proficiency tests. Please attach a resume.
Jobs, Music, Translating/Interpreting Comments Off on Job: Boston band seeks bilingual marketers
From Craigslist Boston:
Reply to: metaphorforeverything@gmail.com [?]
Date: 2008-12-12, 11:46PM EST
A very promising Boston-based rock band is looking to promote its music worldwide by developing a team composed of bilingual marketeers.
If you are fluent in French, Japanese, German, or Chinese and love rock music, we want to talk to you!
The right candidate will be fluent in a foreign language, be preferably from a foreign country originally, and have proficiency with computers and internet. We are especially interested in you if you have knowledge about the music scene of a foreign country, including knowledge of the social scene, web scene, etc.
We will pay between $10 and $20 depending upon qualifications for 3-4 hours per week.
Please email us to schedule an interview. Hope to hear from you.
Thanks to writer/designer Meredith Hodges-Boos (Ehime-ken, Uwajima-shi, Yoshida-cho, 2003-05) for her latest spin on the JetWit design, now on mugs, t-shirts and buttons!
Books, Events, JETAA Chapters, Writers Comments Off on JETAA NY Book Club Update
JETAA NY Book Club co-reviver Michael Glazer writes:
JETAA NY successfully kicked off its New York book club last Wednesday night, Dec. 10. The group discussed Murakami Ryu’s Akutagawa Prize-winning novel Almost Transparent Blue.
Murakami’s provocative novel fueled an energetic, funny, sometimes tense and stimulating exchange of ideas while we snacked on pizza and drank oolong tea. The two-hour conversation ranged in topic from talking about ethnic stereotypes to bug eating, the US military in Japan, The Doors, Japanese escapism and Admiral Perry’s black ships as the group tried to figure out if Blue is literary genius or pop culture trash.
Our next meeting will be on Wednesday, January 21 at 7pm, and we will discuss Miyamoto Teru’s novel Kinshu. You can find the book online at bn.com and amazon.com. Contact Michael Glazer or Jessica Langbein for more information.
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