{"id":34081,"date":"2014-03-07T00:50:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T04:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=34081"},"modified":"2014-03-07T00:50:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T04:50:51","slug":"student-delegates-sought-for-upcoming-japan-america-student-conference-deadline-march-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2014\/03\/07\/student-delegates-sought-for-upcoming-japan-america-student-conference-deadline-march-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Delegates Sought for Upcoming Japan-America Student Conference (Deadline March 31)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This isn&#8217;t for JET alums per se. But if you know anyone who might be interested, it&#8217;s a great way to help support the future of Japan-US relations. <strong>Please note the March 31 application deadline.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to <strong>AJET<\/strong> Chair <strong>Kay Makishi<\/strong> for pointing <strong>JASC<\/strong> Executive Director <strong>Yuuki Shinomiya<\/strong> towards JETwit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Posted by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/-3wjUwqwjyI\">blogger<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/discussionswithdao.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/06\/the-low-dao-37-sam\/\">podcaster<\/a>\u00a0<strong>Jon Dao (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/groups?mostPopular=&amp;gid=3755165&amp;trk=myg_ugrp_ovr\">Toyama<\/a>-ken, 2009-12)<\/strong>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/?hl=en&amp;fromgroups#!forum\/jetwitjobs\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to join the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/?hl=en&amp;fromgroups#!forum\/jetwitjobs\" target=\"_blank\">JETwit Jobs Google Group<\/a>\u00a0and receive job listings even sooner by email.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><b>:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Japan-America Student Conference (JASC) is currently recruiting student delegates for the 66th Annual Conference, which will be held in the U.S. in August\u00a02014. This student-led exchange program, initiated in 1934 by university students concerned by the breakdown of bilateral relations prior to the Second World War, JASC has evolved into a leadership training program for both Japanese and American students.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Our notable alumni list includes former Secretary of State <strong>Henry Kissinger<\/strong> and former Prime Minister of Japan <strong>Kiichi Miyazawa<\/strong>, This year&#8217;s conference theme is &#8220;Communicate and Connect: Pursuing Peace at the Crossroads of Culture&#8221; and will visit Des Moines, IA, San Francisco, CA,<br \/>\nNew York, NY, and Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Applications are currently being accepted on a rolling-admission basis until <strong>March 31st, 2014<\/strong>. You can learn more about the 66th JASC here: <a href=\"http:\/\/iscdc.org\/jasc\/2014\/\">http:\/\/iscdc.org\/jasc\/2014\/<\/a>.\u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t for JET alums per se. But if you know anyone who might be interested, it&#8217;s a great way to help support the future of Japan-US relations. Please note the March 31 application deadline. Thanks to AJET Chair Kay Makishi for pointing JASC Executive Director Yuuki Shinomiya towards JETwit. \u00a0Posted by\u00a0blogger\u00a0and\u00a0podcaster\u00a0Jon Dao (Toyama-ken, 2009-12).\u00a0Click [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-8RH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34081","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\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34082,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34081\/revisions\/34082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}