USJETAA's Jessyca Livingston (Hokkaido 2003-06) talks with Hollywood screenwriter Eirene Tran Donohue (Nagasaki 2002-04) about her recent #1 Netflix movie, A Tourist's Guide to Love, and how JET did and continues to inform her work.

In this episode, USJETAA's Jessyca Livingston chats with Mayumi Uejima-Carr and Miwako Felix of Table for Two, a non-profit that started in Japan and has expanded globally with the goal of educating people about healthy eating and Japanese food culture. Learn how you or your chapter can easily host a Table for Two event that makes a positive impact on the world!

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Contact: [email protected] 

Did you know that as of September, 2022, there are 107 JET alumni who are also alumni of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS)?* And with good reason! 

Listen to this interview with JET/MIIS alumni Scott Pulizzi and Rebecca Guttentag to learn more about the JET/MIIS connection. 

Links:

Professor Scott Pulizzi

Rebecca Guttentag

MIIS - Middlebury Institute for International Studies at Monterey

JET Scholarship for MIIS

And thanks to Jill Stoffers, Senior Director of Institutional Partnerships at MIIS, for her help with arrangements and logistics.

*Source: Jill Stoffers

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Our second installment in the submission-based Mothra Storytelling Hour, where JET alumni submit their stories related to the chosen theme. This episode we share the theme of SUCCESS. We'll hear some classroom stories, travel experiences, life accomplishments, and post - JET successes. Listen to our 7 submissions from fellow alumni! Hosted by Samantha Lastres (Tokyo 2017-21.)  Next episode's theme is ADVENTURE! Submit your stories here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19EN7eDcAlUB-dnbokFreI1EpcHkcZzIg?usp=sharing or by email: [email protected], [email protected] 

In Episode 16, the JETAA-sphere interviews recently re-elected JETAA International President Nathalie Ng (Shizuoka-ken, 2010-11) of JETAA Singapore as well as JETAA International Webmaster Eden Law (Fukushima-ken, 2010-11) of JETAA New South Wales to learn all about what JETAA International is, what it does, and how it exists. We also get to learn more about JETAA Singapore and JETAA New South Wales as well as hear some good stories from Nathalie and Eden's JET days.

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JET Alumni mentioned in this episode:

In Episode 15 of the JETAA-sphere podcast, we interview Prof. Takaaki Hiratsuka, author of Narrative inquiry into language teacher identity: ALTs in the JET program.

Ep 15 Co-hosts:

About Prof. Takaaki Hiratsuka: 

Other JET Alumni or Friends of JET mentioned in this episode:

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The JETAA-sphere is very fortunate and honored to be able to share an episode of Scot Maupin's (Hokkaido, 2005-09) podcast "The Perfect Show" in its entirety on the JETAA-sphere. This episode is entitled "Ten Yen Arcade."

And if you enjoyed this episode, you should definitely check out The Perfect Show's other episodes, especially "Multilanguage Songs" and "Mononoke, Miyazaki, and Maebashi - もののけ姫 - 宮崎駿 - 前橋市". Not all of his episodes related to Japan. But some do, and they're really good!

Meanwhile, here are show notes from The Perfect Show's "Ten Yen Arcade" episode:

Scot dives into the video game world and puts a magnifying glass on a special spot from his time in Japan, the Ten Yen Arcade. Explore the world of bits and bytes with him in this episode all about arcades and playing games

Special thanks to:

Drew, Lee, and Shane, my video game playing friends.

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Special thanks as always to USJETAA and CLAIR for their support!

Ep 012 JETAA-sphere: JET Alumni in Children’s Literature - Alexei Esikoff (Editor) & Roseanne A. Brown (Writer)

Special thanks to DSA International, our first-ever advertiser!

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JETAANY Author Showcase (2009)

Special thanks as always to USJETAA and CLAIR for their support!

Our first installment in the submission-based Mothra Storytelling Hour, where JET alumni submit their stories related to the chosen theme. This episode we begin with the theme MISTAKE. We cover silly cultural slip ups, mistakes at work or in the classroom, and some regrets. Listen to our 15 submissions from fellow alumni! Hosted by Samantha Lastres (Tokyo 2017-21.)  Next episode's theme is SUCCESS! Submit your stories here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1U72pab6txonq0x_-iGNEe8Y2vV46Gsax?usp=sharing or by email: [email protected], [email protected]  Thanks to our submitters:  Susan Patten (Kagoshima) Jessica (Sapporo 2006-08) Sarah Parsons (Johnson) (Gunma 1995-97) Brenda (Hyogo) Joe Palermo (Gunma 1982-83) Scot Maupin (Hokkaido 2005-09) check out his podcast http://perfectshow.site/episodes/ Sarah Coomber (Yamaguchi 1994-96) Michele Fujii (Shiga 2010-13) Jennifer Muraski (Wakayama 2005-07) Steven Horowitz (Aichi 1992-94) Eliot Honda (Ehime 2009-12) Ray Solotki (Gunma 2002-05, Gifu 2010-13) Lee Uehara (Chiba) check out her podcast https://houseofleenyc.com/ Michael Coleman (Ibaraki 1997-2000) Maria Valenzuela (JET 2005-06) JETAA Southern California co-president