{"id":23607,"date":"2012-02-15T22:52:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T02:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=23607"},"modified":"2012-02-15T22:52:23","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T02:52:23","slug":"jet-prefecture-round-up-2-16-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/15\/jet-prefecture-round-up-2-16-12\/","title":{"rendered":"JET Prefecture Round-up 2.16.12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>**************<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sam Brewster,<\/strong><strong>\u00a0(<\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.city.akita.akita.jp\/en\/sightseeing\/default.htm\/\">Akita-ken<\/a><\/strong>,<strong> Kazuno-shi, 2011-present)<\/strong>, gives a little taste of what JETs are doing around Japan. To submit items for future <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/category\/category\/jet-prefecture-round-up\/\">JET Prefecture Round-up<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>posts, e-mail Sam at <strong>jetinfogather [at] gmail.com<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Events by Region<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Chubu Region<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=204771252915413\" target=\"_blank\">Nagano<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Snow Splash party in Hakuba at The Pub on February 25th.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pref.shizuoka.jp\/a_foreign\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shizuoka<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 22nd Annual Sakura Kawazu Matsuri will take place from February 5th to March 10th.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/346513768700679\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ski trip 2 \u2013 Le Retour<\/a><\/strong> at the Aqua Alpine Hotel and Lady Diana Hotel from February 17th to 19th.<\/li>\n<li>Shizuoka JETs are heading to this year&#8217;s Fujinishiki Sake Matsuri on Sunday 18th March in Fujinomiya-shi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Kansai Region<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pref.nara.jp\/nara_e\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nara<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em><strong><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nara JETs take on Hadaka Matsuri &#8211; the Naked Man Festival &#8211; in Okayama on February 18th.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/154296128018438\/\">Nara Bunkasai 2012<\/a><\/strong> takes place this year on February 25th at Loco Loco, showcasing the best of Nara ALTs\u2019 talents for charity!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Kantou Region<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ibaraki<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Makabe Hina Doll Festival in Sakuragawa, from February 4th to March 3rd.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kyushu-tourist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kyushu Region<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kagoshima-kankou.com\/for\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kagoshima<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Charity Party for Earthquake Disaster\u00a0at Recife Bar On Sunday 19th February<\/li>\n<li>The KAJET <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/244856398930842\/\" target=\"_blank\">Annual Pub Quiz<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0takes place this year on<em> March 10th<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.welcomekyushu.com\/area\/kumamoto.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kumamoto<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>KumAJET is auctioning off its ALTs for charity at this year\u2019s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/239692436104989\/\">Valentine\u2019s Day Auction<\/a><\/strong>, held on February 18th. Last year they raised a whopping 238,000yen!<\/li>\n<li>The Kumamoto City International Center Japanese cooking workshop is being held this year on February 26th<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nagasaki-tabinet.com\/mlang\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Nagasaki<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nagasaki JETs are holding a three day intensive English course for students to take part in various cultural activities and games, beginning February 15th.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tourismshikoku.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shikoku Region<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pref.ehime.jp\/izanai\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ehime<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ehime Jets are volunteering on February 26th, playing games and doing crafts with children at the\u00a0Hatadera Children\u2019s Center.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\u00a0<em>*<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Note to all JETs and JET alumni<\/span>: \u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/21\/saving-jet-jet-alumni-groups-by-prefecture\/\">Click here<\/a><\/strong> to find your <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/21\/saving-jet-jet-alumni-groups-by-prefecture\/\">JET prefecture group on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>************** Sam Brewster,\u00a0(Akita-ken, Kazuno-shi, 2011-present), gives a little taste of what JETs are doing around Japan. To submit items for future JET Prefecture Round-up\u00a0posts, e-mail Sam at jetinfogather [at] gmail.com. Events by Region Chubu Region Nagano Snow Splash party in Hakuba at The Pub on February 25th. Shizuoka The 22nd Annual Sakura Kawazu Matsuri will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"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":[379],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jet-prefecture-round-up"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-68L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23607","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\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23607"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23620,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23607\/revisions\/23620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}