{"id":17815,"date":"2011-03-15T22:33:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T02:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=17815"},"modified":"2011-03-15T22:33:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T02:33:02","slug":"jet-prefecture-round-up-03-16-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/15\/jet-prefecture-round-up-03-16-11\/","title":{"rendered":"JET Prefecture Round-up 03.16.11"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emily Lemmon, Shiso-shi ALT\u00a0 2009 to present, and editor of Hyogo Times<\/a>, gives a little taste of what JETs are doing around Japan.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ongoing<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Man up for Japan<\/em><\/strong> – a campaign launched across prefectures not affected by the earthquake and tsunami damage. Every JET is encouraged to donate ichi-man (100,000) yen on payday, or before if possible, either via bank transfer or at a post office or Family Mart. So far, 2,303 JETs are planning to participate. See the facebook event page<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n

Aomori <\/strong>– Aomori JETs, led by Travis Emery, are compiling and delivering supplies to some affected regions, including Minami Sanriku. There are many drop-off locations, including people’s homes in Morioka and Hiroskai, and a school in Oga<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Upcoming<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Shikoku Region<\/strong>
\nKochi <\/strong>– Yusuhara Fijian\/Indian Cooking Day<\/em>, April 3rd (10am – 2pm). Parents of CIR Kavita will give cooking lessons and demonstrations. Recipes to be distributed in English and Japanese. (Flyer)<\/a> Cost is free, all donations go to Tohoku Earthquake relief efforts.<\/p>\n

Kochi <\/strong>– Windbeat Concert, March 26th, ticket proceeds and CD sale money will be donated to aid earthquake affected region. More information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tokushima <\/strong>– Annual Tokushima AJET Touch Rugby Tournament<\/em>, to be held the 28th and 29th of May in a beautiful camping ground in Tokushima Prefecture.<\/p>\n

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Accomplished<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Block 6 and 7 <\/strong>V-Day Party in Osaka<\/em> raised 14,000yen, originally for other causes, but now being donated to provide rice in the earthquake affected region.<\/p>\n

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Emily Lemmon, Shiso-shi ALT\u00a0 2009 to present, and editor of Hyogo Times, gives a little taste of what JETs are doing around Japan. Ongoing Man up for Japan – a campaign launched across prefectures not affected by the earthquake and tsunami damage. Every JET is encouraged to donate ichi-man (100,000) yen on payday, or before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"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":[378,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquake-tsunami","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-4Dl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17815","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17815"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17835,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17815\/revisions\/17835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}