{"id":35039,"date":"2014-05-15T10:19:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T14:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=35039"},"modified":"2014-05-15T10:20:15","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T14:20:15","slug":"ajet-professional-development-call-with-jet-alum-anthony-bianchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/15\/ajet-professional-development-call-with-jet-alum-anthony-bianchi\/","title":{"rendered":"AJET Professional Development Call with JET alum Anthony Bianchi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/AJETlogo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28621 aligncenter\" alt=\"AJETlogo\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/AJETlogo.png\" width=\"238\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/AJETlogo.png 660w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/AJETlogo-300x104.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a>Via the AJET website:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On May 7th, we held our fourth AJET Professional Development Conference Call. Our guest speaker was former JET, <strong>Mr. <strong>Anthony Bianchi (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aichi-kanko.jp\/j-heartland\/\">Aichi<\/a>-ken, Kiyosu City, 1989-91)<\/strong><\/strong>\u00a0who now serves as a city council council member in <strong>Inuyama City, Aichi prefecture<\/strong>. Mr. Bianchi is often highlighted in the Japanese media and is well-known for being the <strong>first American-born elected official in Japan<\/strong>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ajet.net\/2011\/11\/15\/november-2011-life-after-jet-spotlight-anthony-bianchi\">Click here to read a short interview with him on AJET.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19415\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Anthony-Bianchi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19415\" class=\" wp-image-19415  \" alt=\"&quot;The JET Program has great benefits for the country. One of the greatest, but overlooked is the former participants themselves. They all have a great knowledge, understanding and affection for Japan. All have gone on to various careers and are great but underutilized network.&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Anthony-Bianchi.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Anthony-Bianchi.jpg 554w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Anthony-Bianchi-283x300.jpg 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Bianchi (Aichi-ken, 1989-91)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mr. Bianchi discussed the inner workings of his current position, various initiatives to improve English and international communication in his community and how JETs can potentially get involved with local politics in their communities.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to listen to the recording of the call on the AJET website: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ajet.net\/2014\/05\/13\/professional-development-call-anthony-bianchi\/\"><strong>http:\/\/ajet.net\/2014\/05\/13\/professional-development-call-anthony-bianchi\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the AJET website: On May 7th, we held our fourth AJET Professional Development Conference Call. Our guest speaker was former JET, Mr. Anthony Bianchi (Aichi-ken, Kiyosu City, 1989-91)\u00a0who now serves as a city council council member in Inuyama City, Aichi prefecture. Mr. Bianchi is often highlighted in the Japanese media and is well-known for [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37,434,26,25,369,825,319,304,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-career-update","category-celebrity","category-interviewprofile","category-japan-local","category-lifeafterjet","category-local-government","category-notable-jet-alums","category-jet-roi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-979","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35039","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=35039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35040,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35039\/revisions\/35040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}