{"id":12747,"date":"2010-07-16T13:31:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T17:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=12747"},"modified":"2010-07-16T13:31:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T17:31:57","slug":"jet-roi-jet-program-alums-allies-mount-petition-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/16\/jet-roi-jet-program-alums-allies-mount-petition-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"JET ROI: JET Program Alums, Allies Mount Petition Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/jetprogram_logo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12749\" title=\"jetprogram_logo\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/jetprogram_logo1-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/jetprogram_logo1-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/jetprogram_logo1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By <a onclick=\"pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/jetaany.org');\" href=\"http:\/\/jetaany.org\/magazine\" target=\"_blank\"><em>JQ Magazine<\/em><\/a><em>\u2019s\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:magazine@jetaany.org\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Justin Tedaldi<\/em><\/a><em> (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-46636-NY-Japanese-Culture-Examiner\" target=\"_blank\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><em> to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since 1987, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetprogramme.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program<\/a> has hired over 50,000 native English speakers to work at Japanese public schools, enriching ties between nations. Now, Tokyo\u2019s new ruling political party has JET in its crosshairs in the wake of its effort to slash public spending to reduce its ballooning public debt. In a hearing last May, an 11-person panel of the Democratic Party of Japan ruled unanimously for a comprehensive examination of the program to decide whether it should be scaled back or cut entirely.<\/p>\n<p>JET, an initiative of the Japanese government and run by three of its national ministries, has an annual budget of over $400 million. It was launched with the intentions of increasing grassroots internationalization in Japan, primarily through introducing foreigners to Japanese youth as schoolteachers across the country contracted for a minimum of one year. While the program does not require applicants to be licensed teachers (successful candidates team teach with the host school\u2019s own native Japanese English instructor), they are expected to have an interest in Japan and a desire to integrate themselves in their new communities as cultural ambassadors.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the rest of the article <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/examiner\/x-46636-NY-Japanese-Culture-Examiner~y2010m7d16-JET-Program-alums-allies-mount-petition-campaign\" target=\"_blank\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JQ Magazine\u2019s\u00a0Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page here to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories. Since 1987, the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program has hired over 50,000 native English speakers to work at Japanese public schools, enriching ties between nations. Now, Tokyo\u2019s new ruling political party has JET [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[4,15,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-jetaa-chapters","category-jet-roi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3jB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12747","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12751,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12747\/revisions\/12751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}