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Sharon Van Etten<\/a> (CIR Iwate<\/a>-ken)<\/strong>, President of JETAA Sydney<\/a><\/strong>, is another\u00a0 Tohoku region JET alumni selected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) to return to their town<\/a> to both engage in volunteer efforts and also help document and share what\u2019s going on there.<\/p>\n You can follow Sharon’s blog\u00a0Revisiting Iwate<\/em><\/strong> at: \u00a0http:\/\/revisitingiwate.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n JETwit will continue to post updates from Sharon and other participating alums. \u00a0Click here<\/a> to see previous “Return to Tohoku”<\/a> posts.<\/p>\n If you are returning to Tohoku and would like to share your updates, please feel free to e-mail jetwit [at] jetwit.com.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ****************** Sharon Van Etten (CIR Iwate-ken), President of JETAA Sydney, is another\u00a0 Tohoku region JET alumni selected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) to return to their town to both engage in volunteer efforts and also help document and share what\u2019s going on there. You can follow Sharon’s blog\u00a0Revisiting Iwate at: \u00a0http:\/\/revisitingiwate.blogspot.com\/ JETwit will […]<\/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":[7,378,369,304,282,368,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-earthquake-tsunami","category-japan-local","category-notable-jet-alums","category-jet-roi","category-traveltourism","category-writers"],"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