JET Alumni Highlights
Op Ed: “Japan’s Olympic-Size Gamble on COVID-19”
As Japan hosts the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, JCIE/USA Senior Fellow James Gannon (Ehime, 1992-1994) discusses the country’s national COVID-19 response and implications as the country hosts the Tokyo Olympics. Jim Gannon is Vice-Chair on the USJETAA Board of Directors.
Great Lakes JETAA Interview with Daniel Stone of Two ...READ MORE »
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September to November
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Maureen Brase (Nagasaki, 1994-1996) learned taiko while on JET in Nagasaki-ken, started a group in Nebraska, and from 6/13 to 6/20, just shared taiko nationally at the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials playing with Kokyo Taiko.
Watch Maureen teach 6 time gold medalist Amy VanDyken explain taiko starting from 12:20 in this video from USA Swimming.
Australian JET alumna Sara-Jane Seely (Kochi, ...READ MORE »
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JETAANY Nihongo Dake Conversation Hour
Date: Monday, August 2 (August 9, 23, 30 - tentative)
Time: 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. EDT
Details: Join us virtually Mondays on Zoom to ...READ MORE »
USJETAA presented at the CULCON 60th Anniversary Event sharing how the idea of USJETAA came out of a CULCON recommendation about supporting the role JET alumni play in U.S.-Japan relations. Congratulations to CULCON on this anniversary!
The mission of the United States Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme Alumni Association (USJETAA) is to further U.S.-Japan relations by providing support and resources ...READ MORE »
Tonari no Piano: On Music, Cross-Cultural Understanding, and All That Jazz
Dr. Jillian Marshall
Hyogo, 2009-2011
My article reflects on the friendship I shared with my neighbor in a rural fishing village during my time with the JET Program and on music’s power to create lasting cross-cultural understanding. In those two years, I learned that life abroad begets an inevitable negotiation once the ...READ MORE »
Where were you in Japan as a JET and when?
I was a JET in Gunma Prefecture from 2005-2007. I taught at an all girls’ high school and then after JET worked at the prefectural board of education for one year.
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What sparked your ...READ MORE »
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JETAANY Nihongo Dake Conversation Hour
Date: Every Monday
Time: 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. EDT
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Finding a Niche in Japan Research: JET Program Participants and Alumni
Jeanne Beck
PhD student in Applied Linguistics and Technology, Iowa State University
Nagano, 2008-2011
Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program Assistant Language Teachers (ALTs) and alumni are valuable sources of knowledge on workplace relations in Japanese schools. Despite the long history and large number of participants and alumni of the JET Program, limited ...READ MORE »
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