{"id":14810,"date":"2010-11-16T12:43:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T16:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=14810"},"modified":"2010-11-16T13:29:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T17:29:42","slug":"jet-roi-shukan-ny-seikatsu-article-on-jetaany-welcome-back-reception-quotes-jim-gannon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/16\/jet-roi-shukan-ny-seikatsu-article-on-jetaany-welcome-back-reception-quotes-jim-gannon\/","title":{"rendered":"JET ROI: Shukan NY Seikatsu article on JETAANY Welcome Back Reception quotes Jim Gannon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below is a copy of an article from Shukan NY Seikatsu (Weekly NY Life)<\/strong><\/em> about the JETAANY<\/strong><\/a> Welcome Back Reception<\/strong> held on November 6. The article includes some quotes from James Gannon (Ehime-ken, 1992-94)<\/strong> (Executive Director of the Japan Center for International Exchange<\/a> (JCIE\/USA), author of the July 3 \u201cJET on the Chopping Block<\/a>,\u201d and one of the newest members of the JETAANY Board of Directors) that appeared in the November 5 op-ed written by James along with Michael Auslin <\/a><\/strong>(Director of Japan Studies at the American Enterprise Institute<\/a>) and Paige Cottingham-Streater<\/a><\/strong> (Deputy Executive Director of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation).<\/p>\n

The article is titled, “JET Program as a bridge between the US and Japan: An alumni event held in New York City.”\u00a0 It talks about the JET Program alumni event welcoming 23 new returnees who worked as ALTs or CIRs via the JET Program and who recently returned to the New York area. The article says that approximately 110 guests in total attended the event.\u00a0 And Ambassador Nishimiya encouraged the new returnees in his speech saying, “I hope you will continue to do your part building bridges between the people of Japan and the United States.”\u00a0 The article also introduces Mr. James Gannon as a JET alumnus and quotes from the Asahi Shimbun<\/em> op-ed: “The JET Program is a ‘triumph of soft power’ in the US-Japan relations in the grassroots level.”\u00a0 (Thanks to Noriko Furuhata of the Consulate General of Japan in New York for help with the translation.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Below is a copy of an article from Shukan NY Seikatsu (Weekly NY Life) about the JETAANY Welcome Back Reception held on November 6. The article includes some quotes from James Gannon (Ehime-ken, 1992-94) (Executive Director of the Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE\/USA), author of the July 3 \u201cJET on the Chopping Block,\u201d and […]<\/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":[15,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jetaa-chapters","category-jet-roi"],"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