The Black JET Experience
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JETAA South East is hosting a virtual event on the Black JET Experience which will be moderated by Black JET voices.
Specifically, the conversation will be based on these topics:
Being Black in Japan – Our Experiences
Being Black in the United States- Our Experiences
What Can JETAASE do to Increase Minority Participation on the JET Program?
How do we increase JET recruitment at Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs)?
What action plans can we do as individuals and as a chapter to voice against racial inequality?
Register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJclfu-urD4oH9Uu3xZnv2rBY8GEUiOFYOFi
Job: Program Manager or Exhibition Project Manager – Japan House Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
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Posted by Sydney Sparrow. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email
Position: Exhibition Project Manager and Program Manager
Posted by: Japan House Los Angeles
Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Contract: Full-Time
Please see below the job listings passed along to us.
Job: Japanese Top Secret Cleared Linguist – Language on Demand, Inc.(Tokyo, Japan)
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Posted by Sydney Sparrow. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email
Position: Japanese Top Secret Cleared Linguist
Posted by: Language on Demand, Inc.
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Contract: Full-Time
Please see below the job passed along to us directly from the organization.
Northeast Asia Linguists – Japanese
WIT Life #342: Turning a corner on Covid
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Interpreter/Translator/Writer Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03) presents WIT Life, a periodic series about aspects of Japanese culture such as film, food and language. Stacy starts her day by watching Fujisankei’s newscast in Japanese, and here she offers some interesting tidbits and trends along with her own observations.
Hope everyone is doing well in quarantine and looking forward to early summer. It seems like we’re getting closer to having some restrictions lifted here in NY. Over in Japan, the number of cases remains low and PM Abe just lifted the state of emergency for Tokyo and the other four prefectures that were still under it. However, it seems like his time in office might be cut short due to several significant blunders.
It’s been a heartbreaking week in non-Corona related domestic news, and I’ve been using podcasts and webinars to keep my mind off the awfulness. I’m especially fond of Asia Society programming, and tonight at 6:30 you can check out “Tattered Fans and Talismans.” It’s streaming on the organization’s Facebook page, but if you aren’t able to catch it live they offer access to events post-recording.
And in other exciting news, mark your calendars for the inaugural Casa Con! This all digital convention focusing on gaming, content creation and cosplay will be held on Discord from June 12-14. If the fact that I’ll be participating in a panel discussion on Saturday the 13th at 5 p.m. is not enough motivation for you to attend, registration is free! You can connect with the event over social media at #casacon and @thecasacon.
June 2020 Chapter Beat
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Hi all,
We hope you are safe and well. Another month has passed and another round of virtual events are happening around the world. Have a look at what chapters are hosting!
JETAA Chapter Beat is a periodic mosaic of events taking place in the JETAA sphere. Compiled by AJET‘s Director of Alumni Relations Megan Buhagiar (Ishikawa Prefecture, 2017- Present)
Job: Student Relations Coordinator – Ashinaga Foundation (Tokyo, Japan)
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Posted by Sydney Sparrow. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email
Position: Student Relations Coordinator
Posted by: Ashinaga Foundation
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Contract: Full-Time
Thanks to JET alumna, Jennifer Butler (Shizuoka-ken) for passing along the job opening with her organization, The Ashinaga Foundation.
Please see the below job description and background information.
Job: Associate Director of Programs – Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation (Washington, DC)
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Posted by Sydney Sparrow. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email
Position: Associate Director of Programs
Posted by: Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation
Location: Washington, DC
Contract: Full-Time
Thanks to JET alum, Kelly Primrose (Nara-ken) for passing along the following job opening:
https://mansfieldfdn.org/blog/now-hiring-program-officer-washington-office/
Job: Investigative Specialist or Seller Support – Amazon Japan (Japan)
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Posted by Sydney Sparrow. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email
Position: Investigative Specialist or Seller Support
Posted by: Amazon Japan
Location: Sapporo City/Sendai City/Tokyo, Hokkaido/Miyagi/Tokyo, Japan
Contract: Full-Time
Please see below the PDFs for two job listings for Amazon Japan that were passed along to us.
Job: Japanese Linguists – JTG (Tokyo, Japan)
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Posted by Sydney Sparrow. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email
Position: Japanese Linguists for a US Military facility
Posted by: JTG
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Contract: Full-Time
Here are a couple of jobs for 4-5 American citizens passed along to us:
http://jobs.jtg-inc.com/x/detail/a29egmnc0ius
http://jobs.jtg-inc.com/x/detail/a29egmn4edmt
Job: Various Positions – Learning Lab Kobe (Kobe, Japan)
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Posted by Sydney Sparrow. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email
Position: Various Positions
Posted by: Learning Lab Kobe
Location: Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
Contract: Full-Time
Thanks to JET alum, Lee Ung (Okayama-ken) for the following job openings at her company:
May 2020 Chapter Beats
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Hi everyone,
I hope you and your loved ones are doing well. Attached is a compilation of virtual events that are happening around the world. This may be the perfect time to meet new JET alums from another country or city. Enjoy!
JETAA Chapter Beat is a periodic mosaic of events taking place in the JETAA sphere. Compiled by AJET‘s Director of Alumni Relations Megan Buhagiar (Ishikawa Prefecture, 2017- Present)
Job: Policy Research Fellow – Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (Washington, DC)
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Posted by Sydney Sparrow. Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email
Position: Policy Research Fellow
Posted by: Reischauer Center at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Contract: Full-Time
Thanks to JET alumna, Vivian Chen (Shimane-ken) for the following job listing:
The Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC is now accepting applications for the Reischauer Policy Research Fellows Program. The fellowship is paid and tenable for one academic year beginning in August 2020. Please see the attached PDF for more information and how to apply.
If you have any questions about the program and application process, please email reischauer@jhu.edu or feel free to contact Vivian Chen, a Policy Research Fellow from the 2019-2020 cohort (vchen24@jhu.edu).
WIT Life #341: Hanami at home
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Interpreter/Translator/Writer Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03) presents WIT Life, a periodic series about aspects of Japanese culture such as film, food and language. Stacy starts her day by watching Fujisankei’s newscast in Japanese, and here she offers some interesting tidbits and trends along with her own observations.
Hope everyone is holding up ok as we enter our second month of sheltering at home. Some days are better than others, but one thing I’m really missing is soaking up spring. This would typically be the season when I’d be attending all of the 桜祭り (sakura matsuri or cherry blossom festivals) in various parts of Queens, but of course that can’t happen this year.
Thankfully the Sato Sakura Gallery has a virtual fix for people who are craving the cherry blossoms. Check out this related article, which discusses 花見 (hanami or flower viewing) culture, as well as the museum’s amazing collection of sakura screens and paintings. For those who want a literal taste of sakura, try the cherry blossom shake at Shake Shack or pick up some sakura mochi at your local Japanese supermarket.
Hope this tides you over until next year, when we can hopefully enjoy the blossoms by sitting under them with food, drink and friends!
Post-JET Jobs: Using Your Bilingual/Bicultural Skills
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Guest blog post by Kasia Lynch, Founder of Ikigai Connections, who supports job-seekers with her blog, job board and online training programs. Although not a former JET, she’s a big supporter of the Great Lakes JETAA and previously lived in Shiga-ken, Kobe, Kyoto, Saitama-ken and Tokyo (total 8 years). She also studied on the same KCJS program in Kyoto with WITLife’s Stacy Smith back in 1998-1999.
I’ve often met JET alumni who have come back from the most incredible time of their life in Japan and struggle with their next career steps.
Here are the top 4 things I hear about this struggle:
- What can I possibly do with the experience I gained while on the JET Program?
- I’ve had such a life-changing time in Japan, and I’m super confused about what I want to do.
- I’ve been gone so long in Japan that I don’t know how to find a job in <country>.
- I’m “behind” in the job search and/or no one is hiring.
I will answer each of these struggles and provide my top tips on job searching regardless of where you are at in your journey.
Read MoreJQ Magazine: Book Review — ‘Issei Baseball’
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By Rashaad Jorden (Yamagata-ken, 2008-10; Kochi-ken, 2018-present) for JQ magazine. A former head of JETAA Philadelphia’s Sub-Chapter, Rashaad is a graduate of Leeds Beckett University with a master’s degree in responsible tourism management. For more on his life abroad and enthusiasm for taiko drumming, visit his blog at www.gettingpounded.wordpress.com.
The first professional baseball game involving a team of Japanese players took place in Frankfort, Kansas.
Yes, you read that correctly. That fact—and many other interesting tidbits—appear in Mashi author Robert K. Fitts’ new book Issei Baseball: The Story of the First Japanese American Ballplayers, which chronicles the birth of Japanese American baseball as well as several key figures in its growth. Those figures color the early chapters, as Fitts doesn’t jump right into the tours embarked upon by Japanese American teams.
We’re treated to the stories of pioneers such as Harry Saisho, the creator of a club named the Japanese Base Ball Association (which canvassed the Midwest in 1911), Tozan Masko, the co-founder of the Mikado team (the world’s first Japanese-run professional club), and Isoo Abe, the manager Waseda University’s baseball club and organizer of its U.S. tour in 1905.
Speaking of the famous Tokyo university, Fitts devotes most of the book’s fifth and sixth chapters to that cross-country jaunt.
