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JET Return on Investment (ROI)<\/a><\/strong><\/em> is a new category on\u00a0JetWit<\/strong><\/em> intended to highlight the various economic, diplomatic and other benefits to Japan resulting from its investment in the JET Program. \u00a0Why is this important right now? \u00a0Because the JET Program and JET Alumni Association may be cut by the Japanese government, as explained in this post<\/a> by Jim Gannon (Ehime-ken, 1992-94)<\/strong> titled \u201cJET Program on the Chopping Block<\/strong><\/a><\/em>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n We want your “outreach” stories!<\/p>\n Have you given back to your town or prefecture in some way?\u00a0 Have you helped spread Japanese culture through activities in your own country?\u00a0 Have you inspired former students in interesting ways?<\/p>\n We know there are tons of stories and examples out there that have yet to be documented (or gathered in one place).\u00a0 We need these now to help demonstrate some of the ways that JET and JETAA have provided return on Japan’s investment.<\/p>\n Please share your story in the comments section below (or email it to jetwit@jetwit.com<\/strong>).<\/p>\n Yoroshiku!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ********** JET Return on Investment (ROI) is a new category on\u00a0JetWit intended to highlight the various economic, diplomatic and other benefits to Japan resulting from its investment in the JET Program. \u00a0Why is this important right now? \u00a0Because the JET Program and JET Alumni Association may be cut by the Japanese government, as explained in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[282,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jet-roi","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t