{"id":51495,"date":"2025-09-13T15:51:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T19:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=51495"},"modified":"2025-09-13T15:51:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T19:51:30","slug":"alumni-profile-meet-steven-horowitz-jetwit-founder-aichi-ken-1992-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2025\/09\/13\/alumni-profile-meet-steven-horowitz-jetwit-founder-aichi-ken-1992-1994\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Profile: Meet Steven Horowitz, JETwit Founder (Aichi-ken, 1992-1994)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Posted by: Margie Banin<\/strong> (Kochi, 2005-2007), a former CIR with a love of the written word. Currently she connects others to Japan through translating, writing, and editing texts on Japan. Margie also manages the JETwit Bluesky account, serves as the JETwit Volunteer Coordinator and a JETwit jobs-list welcomer, and engages in various other JETwit outreach activities.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently the Japan Society of Boston profiled JETwit founder Steven Horowitz in their “Meet JET Alumni” series. Learn about Steven’s experiences as an early JET program participant 1992-1994 in Kariya-shi, Aichi-ken, in his interview with JSB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full interview here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.japansocietyboston.org\/post\/steven-horowitz-aichi-1992-1994<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steven at his Shorinji Kempo goodbye party – “I had wanted to do a martial art while in Japan, and I noticed some guys in what looked like karate outfits doing fighting exercises in a very small temple behind my apartment. They spoke no English and my Japanese wasn’t very good at that time, but they were happy to have me and so I started joining them three times a week and became part of their ‘family,’ which was a wonderful cultural experience.”<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

. . Posted by: Margie Banin (Kochi, 2005-2007), a former CIR with a love of the written word. Currently she connects others to Japan through translating, writing, and editing texts on Japan. Margie also manages the JETwit Bluesky account, serves as the JETwit Volunteer Coordinator and a JETwit jobs-list welcomer, and engages in various other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25,1216,825,304],"tags":[362,817,1626,1392],"class_list":["post-51495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviewprofile","category-life-as-a-jet","category-lifeafterjet","category-notable-jet-alums","tag-interviewprofile-2","tag-life-after-jet","tag-life-as-a-jet","tag-notable-jet-alums"],"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