{"id":11860,"date":"2010-05-21T19:42:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T23:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=11860"},"modified":"2010-07-03T08:42:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T12:42:30","slug":"wit-life-94-%e4%ba%8b%e6%a5%ad%e4%bb%95%e5%88%86%e3%81%91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/21\/wit-life-94-%e4%ba%8b%e6%a5%ad%e4%bb%95%e5%88%86%e3%81%91\/","title":{"rendered":"WIT Life #95: \u4e8b\u696d\u4ed5\u5206\u3051"},"content":{"rendered":"

WITLife<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is a periodic series written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator <\/strong><\/em>Stacy Smith<\/strong><\/a> <\/em>(Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03). She starts her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she shares some of the interesting tidbits and trends together with her own observations.<\/strong><\/em>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Japanese government is currently undertaking \u4e8b\u696d\u4ed5\u5206\u3051 (jigyo shiwake<\/em>), budget screening or review and prioritization of government projects.\u00a0 This has become a buzzword since the DPJ came into office promising to eliminate wasteful government spending.\u00a0 The party sees this reassessment method as a potentially powerful way to chop budgets.\u00a0 It is being carried out to the point where no one knows where the ax will fall next.<\/p>\n

In fact, the group I am currently interpreting for is here in the U.S. for a year through a program carried out by Japan’s National Personnel Authority and supported by the State Department.\u00a0 They are representatives of a variety of Ministries and will spend their time researching and producing papers on topics relating to their respective fields, with the hopes of applying this knowledge when they return home.\u00a0 However, they are concerned that due to jigyo shiwake <\/em>there might not be a group to succeed them next year.<\/p>\n

I recently received news from a friend at the Japan Local Government Center, the New York branch of the Council for Local Authority on International Relations (CLAIR), one of the sponsors of the JET program.\u00a0 He told me that because his parent organization is one of the targets of\u00a0 jigyo shiwake<\/em>, the future of JET is in danger.\u00a0\u00a0 My friend expressed his sadness that JET is now considered to be irrelevant, and I felt a great sense of disappointment after hearing the news and then reading further about it.<\/p>\n

Apparently on Friday an announcement was made in Japan regarding the lack of a need for the program, and a statement was made saying that after 23 years of JET, ALTs should be eliminated.\u00a0 According to details from a notice put forth by the Government Revitalization Unit, “the mechanism of JET has not changed at all during the duration of the program and its position has remained vague.”\u00a0 It also goes on to urge that in the midst of this proposal it is necessary to follow-up in order to ensure that the current 4400 participants from 36 countries are not adversely affected.\u00a0 Stay tuned to see how this all pans out, but this is certainly an aspect of\u00a0 jigyo shiwake<\/em> that hits close to home for us alums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WITLife is a periodic series written by professional Writer\/Interpreter\/Translator Stacy Smith (Kumamoto-ken CIR, 2000-03). She starts her day by watching Fujisankei\u2019s newscast in Japanese, and here she shares some of the interesting tidbits and trends together with her own observations. The Japanese government is currently undertaking \u4e8b\u696d\u4ed5\u5206\u3051 (jigyo shiwake), budget screening or review and prioritization […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,4,30,282,18,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdote-article","category-articlejournalism","category-japan-trends","category-jet-roi","category-translatinginterpreting","category-wit-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-35i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11860"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12288,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11860\/revisions\/12288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}