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Clip Art – Stationery by Jiaern Loy
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AJET Connect Magazine: March 2012
The March AJET Connect Magazine is ready for download!
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Download the Issue Here! March 2012 issue of AJET Connect (13.1MB PDF) |
Public lectures (ICAS: Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies)
Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies (ICAS) hosts more than 40 lectures and symposiums each year, and invites top-class experts and specialists as speakers. Lecture topics range from politics, the economy, and foreign and military affairs, to cinema and pop culture. All events are open to the public and usually free of charge.
Ben Karp – Japan & African Americans from the Russo-Japanese War to Pearl Harbor
Date: Friday, March 2, 2012
Time: 7:00p.m. (Talk will start at 7:30p.m.)
Speaker: Ben Karp
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Extreme Japan: How the country will both soar and sink
Date: Thursday, March 8, 2012
Time: 7:00p.m. (Talk will start at 7:30p.m.)
Speaker: Kenneth Cukier
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Russia Outlook: Changes and Challenges After The Presidential Election
Date: Friday, March 16, 2012
Time: 7:00p.m. (Talk will start at 7:30p.m.)
Speaker: Nobuo Shimotomai, Professor, Faculty of Law, Hosei University
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Distinguished Lecturer Series for Spring 2012 (TESOL Program)
Nine times a year, the Distinguished Lecturer Series brings three internationally-recognized TESOL scholars to TUJ for intensive weekend seminars. The first three hours of each seminar (Saturday from 2 – 5 p.m.) are free and open to the public.
Motivation and Autonomy in Language Learning: Theory, Practice and Research
Professor: Dr. Ema Ushioda (University of Warwick, UK)
Schedule:Tokyo – Saturday, March 24 from 2:00 to 9:00 p.m. and Sunday, March 25 from 10:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.
Osaka - Saturday, March 31 from 2:00 to 9:00 p.m. and Sunday, April 1 from 10:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.
For details, please visit
Tokyo: http://www.tuj.ac.jp/newsite/
Osaka: http://www.tuj.ac.jp/newsite/
2012 AJET Elections
Want to help JETs and the JET Programme?
Being a JET opens a door to life changing opportunities and experiences. If you’ve been helped by other JETs in the past and want to pay it forward, if you want to see the JET Programme become better than it is now, or, if you want to lend your voice on behalf of other JETs, we can help you do just that.
If you are looking for a way to give back, AJET is looking for you.
Looking for a Professional Challenge?
AJET provides a great opportunity for professional development. As an association that works with businesses and other groups around the world, as well as maintaining and cultivating relationships with government agencies in Japan and abroad, AJET gives JETs a unique chance to prove that they have what it takes to be successful in a variety of business and corporate environments.
For those with a creative drive, AJET publishes a magazine read by thousands of people around the world, featuring dozens of contributors from various different backgrounds.
Whether you are looking for business networking opportunities, or to jump start a future career in education and gain a foothold in the world of ESL, AJET’s domestic partnerships can put teaching resources in your hands that will make this happen.
Looking to serve JETs in your immediate area through social networking and large-scale events coordination?
AJET works very hard to create a community for the 4,000 or so JETs living and working in Japan. An integral part of this community is the AJET Block Representation system, which puts motivated and inspired JETs in charge of connecting JETs both locally and nationally.
This connection is key to the power we have to make positive change in our communities, and serve as future ambassadors between Japan and our home countries.
If you’ve been active in your prefecture making your area a more eventful place for JETs, we are looking for you!
Think you have what it takes?
AJET elections for the 2012-2013 JET year are here! Applicants should be current JETs who are reliable, have excellent time management skills, possess the professional skills necessary for the job, and are re-contracting for the 2012-2013 JET year.
Those wishing to run, should contact an Executive Officer of AJET, or the holder of your desired position, and submit a platform to our Election Committee at election@ajet.net by February 28th, 2012. Elections for the 2012-2013 AJET National Council will be held online from early March.
For further information and the election rules please click here.
AJET Connect Magazine: February 2012
Clipart Artist – Jiaern Loy
Name: Jiaern Loy
Website: Chasing Empty Dragons
Email: xquished@gmail.com
Bio: Coming soon!
Clip Art by Jiaern Loy…
January 2012: JET Effect Spotlight
Paul Yoo is a third year JET living in Yurihonjo, Akita. He laughingly calls himself ‘the 田舎 BABY’. He is the co-founder and director of volunteerAKITA, a grassroots charity organization that Akita JETs started up in response to the March 11th disaster in Tohoku.
“volunteerAKITA is a great mix of community members and ALTs in Akita prefecture. We are so fortunate to have such a great community up here in Akita! It’s AWESOME!”
“We in Akita were so fortunate compared to other areas in Tohoku, so it only made sense to use our time and resources to offer and bring aid to the folks out east, which is just a quick day trip away.”
The first big initiative launched by volunteerAKITA was The Fruit Tree Project. After their first trip to Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, in early April of 2011 they discovered that there was an urgent need for fresh fruit in the emergency shelters. The people living in the shelters usually just received rice and miso soup for every meal.
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