{"id":18019,"date":"2011-03-17T10:37:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T14:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=18019"},"modified":"2011-03-17T10:37:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T14:37:21","slug":"role-of-jet-alumni-community-in-this-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/17\/role-of-jet-alumni-community-in-this-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Role of JET alumni community in this crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/16\/nyregion\/16local.html?pagewanted=2&amp;hpw\">article in the NY Times<\/a> earlier this week saying there has not been a large response from the Japanese community in NYC, because it&#8217;s not as big as other ethnic communities in NYC and because many members are here for short periods to work for their companies, etc.<\/p>\n<p>But that article didn&#8217;t understand this important fact:\u00a0 <strong>We&#8211;the JET alumni community of 55,000+ worldwide&#8211;we are part of the Japanese expat community.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So when the media talk about the Japanese community in the world, they need to factor in the JET alumni.\u00a0 Because we all have a lifetime connection to Japan no matter what else we do in life, and in our minds we are all Japanese.\u00a0 We are hurting like hell and we are also helping.<\/p>\n<p>JET alumni are doing amazing things right now to organize and mobilize resources, funding, translations, information and volunteers.\u00a0 Through the JET Alumni Association.\u00a0 Through independent efforts.\u00a0 And also through the roles established JET alumni already play in myriad organizations and companies that are supporting Japan.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to these efforts, part of our role as JET alumni is to engage the people around us in our home country so that they understand and feel connected to Japan.\u00a0 So that they understand and are aware of ways they can help.\u00a0 Cultural outreach is one of the most important ways that JET alumni can help right now.<\/p>\n<p><em>Minasan, ganbatte kudasai.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an article in the NY Times earlier this week saying there has not been a large response from the Japanese community in NYC, because it&#8217;s not as big as other ethnic communities in NYC and because many members are here for short periods to work for their companies, etc. But that article didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/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_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-18019","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-4GD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18019","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18019"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18023,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18019\/revisions\/18023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}