The Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program is a highly competitive employment opportunity that allows college graduates from around the world to work for boards of education, schools, and government offices throughout Japan. While in Japan, JETs are able to gain the cultural experience of a lifetime while also developing necessary soft skills for future employment. Although The JET Program ...READ MORE »
USJETAA launched the fourth year of the Microgrant Initiative for American JETs last October. USJETAA partnered with the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo to award 22 microgrants (grants of small amounts of funding) to current American JET Program(me) teachers to support projects in Japanese schools and local communities. This year was the largest number of applications with a total of 39 ...READ MORE »
Official First Look of My Invisible Compass (2021)
My Invincible Compass (2021) is a 5-year documentary following the journeys of Tomoya and other abused, abandoned and neglected children living in institutional care around Japan. Movie made by Matt Miller (Gunma, 2006-2009). Link to video
New JET Streams Spring and Summer 2020
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U.S.-Japan Technology Policy Coordination: Balancing Technonationalism With a Globalized World
James L. Schoff (Kanagawa, 1988-1999), a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Asia Program, recently published a paper on technonationalist competition with a focus on ways the U.S. and Japan can coordinate. Read the paper here.
Course: How Race and Ethnicity Shape American Life
Registration is open for Mya Fisher's ...READ MORE »
The third year of the Microgrant Initiative had the largest number of applications and micro grantees. USJETAA partnered with the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo to award micro grants (grants of small amounts of funding) to current American JET Program(me) teachers to support projects in their schools and communities. This year's projects fell into four categories cultural events, community resources, penpal ...READ MORE »
October 29, 2018
USJETAA partners with the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo to award microgrants (grants of small amounts of funding) to current JET Program(me) teachers from the Unite States to support projects they hold in their schools and communities. The grant program concluded at the end of July. JET alumni Shantel Dickerson (Oita, 2016-2018) wrote an article on the Microgrant Program for AJET ...READ MORE »
April 18th, 2018
USJETAA partners with the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo to award microgrants (grants of small amounts of funding) to current American JET Program(me) teachers to support projects in schools and communities. Take a look the projects that were approved for the 2017-2018 grant year. We look forward to sharing the results once all the projects are completed!
Pre-Depature ...READ MORE »
Event Date: February 24, 2018
Event Location: Park Inn by Radisson Resort, Kissimmee, FL
USJETAA was pleased to take part in Florida JETAA’s celebration of 30 years of the JET Program. The event was held from 9:45 a.m. - 2:30 p.m., giving the approximately 30 attendees and panelists the opportunity to meet, network and reconnect.
Representing USJETAA was Laurel Lukaszewski, USJETAA ...READ MORE »
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