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        <description><![CDATA[Please join NAFSA for a Collegial Conversation March 6, 2012 at 1pm EST about “Breaking In: Entering the Field of International Education.”You do not need to be a member of NAFSA to join this lively conversation.  All you need to do is go to the above website at the designated time. http://www.nafsa.org/resourcelibrary/default.aspx?id=31177

 

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        <description><![CDATA[The Abe Fellowship for Journalists (AFJ) encourages in-depth coverage of important issues affecting the United States and Japan through individual policy-related projects.

Topics:

Fellows are expected to produce an analytical article or feature story that will inform public debate or a policy community on one of the following topics.

) Traditional and Non-Traditional Approaches to Security and Diplomacy
Topic areas include transnational terrorism, internal ethnic and religious strife, infectious diseases, food safety, climate change, and non-proliferation, as well as the role of cultural initiatives in peace building. 
2) Global and Regional Economic Issues
Topic ares include regional and bilateral trade agreements, international financial stability, globalization and the migration of its adverse consequences, sustainable urbanization, and environmental degradation. 
3) Social and Cultural Issues
Topic areas include demographic change, immigration, the role of civil society and media as champions of the public interest, social enterprise, corporate social responsibility, and revitalization of multicultural urban areas.
 
Research projects should be policy relevant, contemporary, and comparative or transnational.

Benefits
The fellowship provides support for six weeks of fieldwork in Japan or the United States. The term may be divided between the principal destination and another country. The maximum stipend is $25,600, which includes a preparation allowance, one roundtrip air ticket, per diem for overseas fieldwork, and support for interpretation or research assistance based on requests.

Eligibility
This competition is open to citizens of the United States and Japan. Nationals of other countries must be permanent residents of the United States or Japan, or have a serious long-term affiliation with the American or Japanese journalistic communities.

Applicants must have at least five years of professional journalistic experience with newspapers, newsmagazines, wire services, or online news organizations. Freelancers are eligible.

Apply Online
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        <description><![CDATA[2011 Abe Fellowship Competition

Deadline: September 1, 2011
http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/abe-fellowship/

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP), and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) announce the annual Abe Fellowship competition. The Abe Fellowship is designed to encourage international multidisciplinary research on topics of pressing global concern. The Abe Fellowship Program seeks to foster the development of a new generation of researchers who are interested in policy-relevant topics of long-range importance and who are willing to become key members of a bilateral and global research network built around such topics.

The Abe Fellowship Research Agenda 
Applicants are invited to submit proposals for research in the social sciences and related fields relevant to any of the following three themes: 

1) Traditional and Non-Traditional Approaches to Security and Diplomacy
Topic areas include transnational terrorism, internal ethnic and religious strife, infectious diseases, food safety, climate change, and non-proliferation, as well as the role of cultural initiatives in peace building.
2) Global and Regional Economic Issues
Topic areas include regional and bilateral trade arrangements, international financial stability, globalization and the mitigation of its adverse consequences, sustainable urbanization, and environmental degradation.
3) Social and Cultural Issues
Topic areas include demographic change, immigration, the role of civil society and media as champions of the public interest, social enterprise, corporate social responsibility, and revitalization of multi-cultural urban areas.

Research projects should be policy relevant, contemporary, and comparative or transnational.

Fellowship Terms 
Terms of the fellowship are flexible and are designed to meet the needs of Japanese and American researchers at different stages in their careers. The program provides Abe Fellows with a minimum of three and maximum of 12 months of full-time support over a 24 month period. Part-time residence abroad in the United States or Japan is required.

Eligibility 
* This competition is open to citizens of the United States and Japan as well as to nationals of other countries who can demonstrate a serious, long-term affiliation with research communities in the United States or Japan. 
* Applicants must hold a Ph.D. or the terminal degree in their field, or equivalent professional experience at the time of application. Applications from researchers in professions other than academia are encouraged. 

Contact Details
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http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/abe-fellowship/

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        <description><![CDATA[Please note that the prices have been changed from those listed above. This is due to fees that CAVE pays in order to provide online registration and payment for attendees.

The final prices are as follows. 
Introductory Sessions: $198
Intensive Sessions: $588 
Akira Kasai Intensive Session: $488
Piercing Butoh Classes: $415

Performances:
$16/ $13 with CAVEnexus or student discount. 

Ferment Performances:
$11/$8 with CAVEnexus or student discount. 

Akira Kasai Performances:
$19/$16 with CAVEnexus or student discount. 


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        <description><![CDATA[CAVE TRAINING &#38; PERFORMANCE SEASON  
 August 6 TO NOVEMBER 19  2011
 
LUDUS: NEW YORK BUTOH KAN TEACHING RESIDENCY + TRAINING INITIATIVE
AT HOME: CAVE PERFORMANCE SEASON

New York, NY -- CAVE is pleased to announce the continuation of its 2011 training program and performance season.  LUDUS (school + play) is the educational program of CAVE and its resident company LEIMAY. The core of the program is the New York Butoh Kan (NYBK) Teaching Residency + Training Initiative. Every year, influential butoh artists living abroad are invited to lead workshops as resident teachers at CAVE. This year’s residents are Akira Kasai Hisako Horikawa, Yukio Waguri, and visiting artists are Masaki Iwana and Moeno Wakamatsu. All residents will lead both introductory and intensive sessions, open to dancers, actors and performers. NYBK-related activities include the Piercing Butoh Weekly Classes held by Daiji Meguro and Ximena Garnica, and interviews with our resident teachers. Resident teachers will also be performing as a part of CAVE\'s At Home: Performance Series. This series showcases established butoh artists, those widely recognized figures in the contemporary dissemination of butoh styles and techniques. At Home is also organized in order to support the work of CAVE residents and local artists and as a supplement to CAVE\'s educational activities.

All activities will occur at CAVE, on Grand St in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. 

For full details about Ludus: New York Butoh Kan Teaching Residency + Training Initiative and At Home: CAVE Performance Season, to purchase tickets and to register for workshops, please visit our website, or call 347.838.4677, or email us.


BUTOH WORKSHOPS SCHEDULE

HISAKO HORIKAWA
Introductory Session
DATES: September 8th – 10th
TIMES: Weekdays 6pm -10pm, Saturdays 10:30am – 2:30pm
COST: $192
For two decades Hisako contributed to the development of the Body Weather Laboratory. A kinesthetic and movement research initiated by dancer/farmer Min Tanaka. This comprehensive movement training offers open and incisive investigations to challenge physical limits and scale, evoke sense memory, and rigorously re-examine the body as a dynamic, transformative environment.
Through relaxation and awakening of various parts of the body, students will focus on opening their bodies to receive from the outside world and cultivating their senses to the new discoveries they make.

Intensive Session
DATES: September 12th – 16th &#38; 18th – 22nd
TIMES: Weekday 10am – 2pm, Sunday 10:30am – 2:30pm
COST: $580
This session will continue to deepen the material studies of the Introductory Session and  will explore following themes: 
Body without strength. 
Body that still has some parts alive. 
Body that is moved. 
Body that lives in a space.


MASAKI IWANA
Introductory Session
Dates: September 16th - 18th
Times: Friday 6pm -10pm, Saturday and Sunday 3:30-7:30pm
Cost: $192
Because dance is \"a realization of one\'s dream through the body\", one must first know one\'s body very well: a total body that includes all levels - the bio-skeletal body, spirit, and intuition. 
Before entering the dance training, we train the body which is the valuable instrument of dance.	This training is for flexibility and core strength --using stretching--, and power and balance training.  
In order to let the body function entirely, students will learn five fundamental dances. These are truly fundamental movements that one can encounter in daily life. 


MOENO WAKAMATSU
Introductory Session
Dates: September 30, October 1st &#38; 2nd
Times: Friday  10am -2pm, Saturday and Sunday 3:30-7:30pm
Cost: $192
In dance, the true-self manifests itself concretely through our body as presence, physicality, movement. In order to approach the expression the true-self, we prepare our status of mind and body to be ready to perceive the world directly. 
Students will undergo physical training to enhance thei awareness, strength, flexibility, sensitivity and concentration. They will explore embodying the difference of the elements within the body and in the space (i.e. light, texture, temperature, weight). The workshop will emphasize active listening in order to distinguish the density, current, pulse, and vibration of time and space. the purpose is not to move, but to be moved; to know the direction of the desire of the dance. Finally, students will study the shift of boundary: placing ourselves outside in the space; placing our desire in the space.

YUKIO WAGURI
Introductory Session 
Dates: September 29th - October 1st
Times:Thursday and Friday: 6pm -10pm, Saturday 10:30am - 2:30pm.
Cost: $192

Intensive Session
Dates: October 3rd - 7th &#38; 9th - 13th
Times: Weekdays 10am - 2pm, Sundays 10:30am - 2:30pm.
Cost: $580

In Hijikata’s butoh method, the moment of occurrence consists of form and movement.  Through exchange between inside and outside world we create beauty by random connection of the images. Through both Introductory and Intensive Sessions, students will explore different body conditions like heaviness and lightness, condensation and expansion, transfiguration, in relation between space and time that is made by body’s condition.


AKIRA KASAI
“Dance in the Era of Life Sciences”
Our understanding of the human body is changed significantly by the sciences, both engineering and life. The identity of man and woman is all but disappearing as we discover ways of forming life without the necessity of distinct and separate ‘male’ and ‘female’ forces. In this era, we are faced with questions such as how does this new understanding change the dance, which is using the body, and how do we perceive life itself? “Human beings can make everything possible by their own natural power that biotechnology could do.” Today, the human form in dance and Butoh must be done differently. 

Introductory Session
Dates: November 10th - 11th
Times: 10:30am -3:30pm
Cost: $192
Students will learn basic consciousness of their bodies through movement and observation:
If there is neither good movement nor bad movement, how do you see other person’s dance?

Intensive Session
Dates: November 12th - 16th
Times: Weekdays from 10am - 3pm, Weekends from 10:30am - 3:30pm.
Cost: $480
Students will investigate the following themes in movement and choreography:
Creation of  physical space.
Creation of physical time.
Connection between words and body.
Vowel that creates life; consonant that changes function of sense into energy.


DAIJI MEGURO
Piercing Butoh Weekly Class
Dates: Saturdays from August 6th to October 29th: 2-7pm, (except September 17th and October 1st.) Make Up Classes October 24th and 31st: 6-10pm
Cost: $400
These sections must have at least five full-time students in order to run.
Part One (Body Building): The class begins with a training section focusing on  breathing, consciousness and release of the body. We will explore the connections between the body and breathing and how breath can become an initiator of movement. How to place consciousness  in different parts of the body allowing it to flow and integrate. Releasing exercises aim to condition the body to carry certain states while it moves. Part one will last two hours and can be taken as a single class drop-in.
Part Two (Creation): The second half of the class will focus on the creation of individual pieces using Meguro’s Butoh choreography method as well as one of the Butoh choreography methods that uses text to create movement by the image of it. Daiji Meguro\'s choreography method subdivides texts into individual words onto which qualities are added. For example, quick or slow, big or small, high or low, inside or outside. The common view of the choreographer and the dancer is made by these uses of words.  This way of working provides an intersection point to search for each student’s individual expression. The pieces will be presented at CAVE on November 4 &#38; 5 as part of CAVE’s Ferment Series. The class will explore the theme of the “Useless Body”. The human body is usually seen has a tool for procreation or as having a role or value in society, a “Daily Body”. This body, however, is not simply an organism to serve a purpose. Meguro’s workshop explores the “Useless Body”, one that operates beyond monetary and reproductive purposes, and which is often disregarded by society for that reason. Students participating in this section must take all 12 classes. No drop-ins for this part of the class.


XIMENA GARNICA
Piercing Butoh Weekly Class
Dates: Sundays from August 7th to October 30th (except September 18th and October 9th) and every other Wednesday from August 10th to October 19th.
Times: 10:30am - 2:30pm (Sun.) / 6-9:30pm(Wed.)
Cost: $400
These sections must have at least five full-time students in order to run. 
Part One (Grasping the Body) The class begins with a warm-up focused on generating fluidity and relaxation through the body.  Different exercises give the opportunity to explore internal openness and energy flow, facilitate an awareness of space and consciousness, distinguish different approaches to movement initiation, cultivate presence and prepare an alert and neutral body that is ready to be moved. Part one will last one and a half hours and can be taken as a single class drop-in.
Part Two (Individual Creation): This second half will be focused on the creation of a group piece exploring the theme of the “clown body”. The aim is to experience the process of creating  a 30-40 minute group piece under the direction and choreography of Garnica. The class will give the students the ability to access states necessary to making work and will create a platform in which the group can begin to research and uncover information about this theme. Special emphasis is made in awakening consciousness by exploring the unconscious domain, which allows us – as dancers, choreographers and theater artists – to expand our understanding of the body, and our experience and understanding of daily life. Consequently, we enlarge the realms of perception, creation, and discover the possibilities for interaction therein. Integrating physical insights from part one within improvisation, and based in research findings, students will be lead into the creative process of LEIMAY’s ensemble pieces. Students participating in this section must take all 17 classes. No drop-ins for this part of the class. (It is recommended for students to become familiar with LEIMAY’s aesthetic before registering for this section, as it has variances from the traditional butoh dance.)


Special tuition discounts if registered by August 15!
Take any 3 workshops: get 10% off.          
Take any 5 workshops: get 15% off.     
Take any 7 workshops: get 20% off.   
CAVEnexus members will get an extra 5% off from above. 


PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
In addition to teaching workshops, the butoh masters will perform their own pieces as part of the At Home Series. These performances provide the opportunity to experience the aesthetic of the masters first hand. Performances run from 40 to 60 minutes in length.  

At Home Series: Dance by Hisako Horikawa 
Dates: September 24th &#38; 25th
Time: 8:00 pm
Cost: $15 regular/  $12 CAVE Nexus member and student with ID.

At Home Series: Dance by Masaki Iwana and Moeno Wakamatsu (double bill)
Dates: September 27 and 28(artist talk after performance on 27th)
Time: 8:00 pm
Cost: $15 regular/  $12 CAVE Nexus member and student with ID.

At Home Series: Dance by Yukio Waguri
Dates: October 15 and 16
Time: 8:00 pm
Cost: $15 regular/  $12 CAVE Nexus member and student with ID.

At Home Series: Dance by Daiji Meguro
Dates: October 27 and 28
Time: 8:00 pm
Cost: $15 regular/  $12 CAVE Nexus member and student with ID.

Ferment Series: Performance by piercing butoh emerging local artists
Dates: November 4, 5 and 6
Time: TBA
Cost: $10 regular/  $7 CAVE Nexus member and student with ID.

At Home Series at DNA: Dance by Akira Kasai
This program is co-produced by Dance New Amsterdam (DNA)  
Location: DNA theater, 280 Broadway, 2nd Floor (entrance on Chambers) 
Dates:  November 18
Time: 8:00 pm
Cost: $18 regular/  $15 CAVE Nexus member, DNA Students and student with valid ID.


ARTISTS CONVERSATIONS
A series of intimate conversations with the resident teachers, lead by CAVE’s artistic co-director, Ximena Garnica. Each conversation brings the audience closer to the unique creative process of the teachers, and creates a platform for the exchange of ideas that is vital to the development and evolution of butoh.  All conversations are streamed live on the net at CAVE’s online channel: http://nexus.cavearts.org/

Hisako Horikawa 
Dates: September 20th
Time: 7:00 pm

Yukio Waguri
Dates: October 11th
Time: 7:00 pm

Daiji Meguro
Dates: October 18th
Time: 7:00 pm

Akira Kasai
Dates:  November 15th
Time: 7:00 pm

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
Hisako Horikawa
(Niigata, Japan) In 1978 Horikawa started her inquiry into the body leading her to dance with Japanese dance pioneer Min Tanaka, with whom she co-founded the Body Weather Laboratory. Today she mainly dances solo works and works with a variety of artists and musicians in different countries, including Tristan Honsinger, Ab Baars, and in the Duch Punk Rock Band: The EX, as well as multiple artists in Spain.

Moeno Wakamatsu
Moeno Wakamatsu was born in Japan.  A dance/theatre artist coming from a background of being a pianist and an architect, she began her solo dance career at the age of 27 in New York City.  She has also been teaching the Feldenkrais Method®  for 10 years. She is now based in France. 
‘I wish to suspend within the moment where inner desire meets outer phenomena.’  

Masaki Iwana
Iwana began his dance career outside the \"Butoh genealogy\" in 1975. Until 1982 he presented 150 experimental performances in which he stood straight, completely naked and perfectly still. Since then, in Europe as well as Japan, Iwana has presented his performances and workshops continuously and has created works which are built on his sharpened aesthetic in 100 cities - 40 countries. Iwana represents the institute for the research of Butoh: La Maison du Butoh Blanc. 2006 he produced and created a theatrical film \'Vermilion Souls\'. 

Yukio Waguri was the main male dancer at Tatsumi Hijikata’s Asbestos-kan from 1972 to 1978. Waguri has made his own interpretation of Butoh-fu and continues to use them as a method for his own choreography and teaching. Over the past 28 years he has taught and choreographed around the world. He is the Artistic Director of the Kohzensha Butoh Company.

Akira Kasai  (Tokyo, Japan) Akira Kasai was a pioneer of the Butoh art form in the 1960s and \'70s. After studying modern dance, pantomime and classical ballet, he performed with butoh legend Kazuo Ohno iin “Gigi”in 1963. In 1971, Kasai established Tenshi-kan (House of Angels) in Tokyo\'s western suburb of Kokubunji as an institute in which he taught dance. He leads the Tenshi-Kan Dance Institute in Tokyo and has published two books of essays on dance perception and new dance techniques. 

Daiji Meguro is founder of the NUDE Dance Company.His training comes from seven years working with butoh master Ko Murobushi as a member of his company Ko &#38; Edge and training with Hijikata’s widow Motofuji at Asbestos Kan. Besides his own work he is an active dancer with the Tokyo based company Baby-Q and 666/cell. Currently Meguro is in a one-year residency at CAVE supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs (bunka-cho). 

Ximena Garnica is the Artistic Director of LEIMAY, an interdisciplinary project and laboratory of performance in residence at CAVE. A theatre artist since childhood, Garnica has been exploring butoh for the past twelve years.  Currently she teaches at P.H.T.S, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Drama. Other teaching credits included master classes and lectures at Denison University, Skidmore College, DeSales University, Muhlenberg College and the Academia Superior de Artes de Bogota.

ABOUT CAVE
Founded in 1996, CAVE is one of the longest-running experimental art spaces in the Williamsburg, Brooklyn. CAVE strives to provide an explorative arena and support system for artistic development by hosting studio workspace, educational workshops, performance opportunities and assistance in the realization of projects that support risk taking in the in visual, media and performing arts.

ABOUT LEIMAY
LEIMAY is the parapluie for Ximena Garnica art works, Shige Moriya art works and the collaboration work between these two artists at the intersection of dance, theater and installation art.  Works range from photography, to video art,  art installations, dance-theater pieces, inter-disciplinary collaborations and training projects.

SUPPORT
The LUDUS (school + play) is an educational initiative of CAVE and LEIMAY. The New York Butoh Kan Teaching Residency + Training Initiative is made possible by support from the National Endowment for the Arts. CAVE performances and workshop presentations are supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. CAVE performance season in made possible with public funds from the New York State Council of the Arts, a state agency.
 
PRESS MATERIALS AND CONTACT
Click here to access an article about NYBK. For additional information and high-resolution photographs, please contact Denisa Musilova at studio@caveartspace.org.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[What Can I do? 
I spent a year teaching English in Iwate Prefecture (Miyako)  in the Tohoku Region- (northern Japan)and ever since the earthquake, I have been asking myself what can I do to help the people of Iwate and in particular those in the coastal towns  severely hit by the tsunami.  Iwate Prefecture has set up a Disaster Relief Fund for the citizens affected by the earthquake and tsunami.  Below is the bank information if you want to make a donation directly to Iwate.

The Iwate Prefectural Site in Japanese is here:
http://www.pref.iwate.jp/index.rbz

Information on Iwate and the Great Tohoku Earthquake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami#Japan

Charity information on the Iwate Prefecture site (English):
http://sv032.office.pref.iwate.jp/~bousai/taioujoukyou/gienkin_kaigai2.pdf

Charity Donations for the Great Tohoku Earthquake Disaster
Those who want to make a direct contribution to Iwate Prefectural victims and affected areas from overseas can make a bank transfer to the following location. 
The government of Iwate has a committee to decide how to distribute the funds. 


Bank Transfer Account Information Bank 	The Bank of Iwate, Ltd

SWIFT Code 	SWIFT: BAIWJPJT 
Branch 	 Kencho Branch
Branch No. 	009 
Account No. 	009-2016634 
Beneficiary’s Name （JPN: 口座名義） 	Iwate Prefecture Disaster Relief Charity Committee （JPN: 岩手県災害義援金募集委員会） 
Beneficiary’s address/ Telephone Number (JPN: 住所／電話番号) 	
Japan, Iwate-ken, 
Morioka-shi, Uchimaru 10-1  
 Office of Health and Welfare Planning Iwate Prefectural Government 
Tel :019-629-5408 


If you have questions, you may contact the Government of Iwate at:
Iwate Prefecture Disaster Relief Charity Committee
〒020-8570 Iwate-ken, Morioka-shi, Uchimaru 10-1 
Office of Health and Welfare Planning 
Iwate Prefectural Government 
TEL 019-629-5408 
Fax 019-629-5419 
Ｅmail AD0001@pref.iwate.jp]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[If you haven\'t responded yet, please let us know how many tourists you personally caused to visit Japan.  This is one of a number of efforts to help demonstrate the value of JET to Japan.

Here\'s the link directly to the Google Form:  https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFFPeW5zdUZjQ3RZbEJJQ2IzNHJCZHc6MQ&#38;ifq  

And here\'s the post on JetWit:  http://jetwit.com/wordpress/2010/12/08/project-how-much-tourism-revenue-has-jet-generated-for-japan/

Yoroshiku!

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        <description><![CDATA[JetWit is attempting to compile a list of sister cities (and prefectures and regions) in Japan where a JET lives or lived.

Why? One more effort to help JETAA take on a role in helping Japan\'s cities to increase their return on investment from the JET Programme and further demonstrate the ongoing value of JET and JETAA.

To help, email jetwit@jetwit.com with info about your city\'s sister city relationship (if it has one) along with your basic JET info (prefecture and years).

More details and submissions so far can be seen here: http://jetwit.com/wordpress/2010/10/30/jet-sister-city-list-project/

Yoroshiku!

Steven Horowitz (Aichi-ken, Kariya-shi, 1992-94) (Sister city: Mississauga, Ontario)
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        <description><![CDATA[JQ magazine returns with another fall classic! Features include the JETAA USA National Conference wrap-up, a review of JET alum author Malena Watrous\' new book If You Follow Me, and an exclusive interview with Japan\'s Ambassador to the United States Ichiro Fujisaki. Visit http://jetaany.org/magazine to view

BIG NEWS! This is also JQ\'s final issue in traditional print form. It will return after a brief hiatus as an all-online publication. With no space limitations or monthly deadlines, JET readers from all chapters are encouraged to submit stories, announcements, updates and commentary to help make us a stronger and more unified \"national international\" publication.

Additional contents below. Thanks to JQ Editor Justin Tedaldi (Kobe-shi CIR, 2001-02) for another sugoi issue. Contact Justin (magazine _ @ _ jetaany.org) if you’d like to pitch or write a story for future editions.

CONTENTS

Page 3……..From the Editor, Ambassador of Japan to the United States
Page 4……..Nippon News Blotter / JETAANY’s Secretary Ties the Knot
Page 5……..JETAANY Society Page - National Conference Wrap-up by Goshippu Garu
Page 7……..Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki: The JQ Interview by Justin Tedaldi
Page 8……..JoAnn M. Hunter Goes from Broadway to Tokyo by Lyle Sylvander
Page 9……..Through the Eastern Looking-Glass with Malena Watrous by Sharona Moskowitz
Page 10……JETlog featuring Stuart Wallace
Page 11…….Book Corner: Just Enough by David Kowalsky
Page 11…….Life After the B.O.E. by David Namisato]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[JQ knows you’re going to see Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, the summer’s coolest comic book movie, so why not get to know the the guy who started it all, cartoonist Bryan Lee O’Malley?  Their new “Hot Button” issue features an exclusive interview with Bryan, a recap of the new Samurai in New York museum exhibition, and the return of the JETAANY Society Page, plus more! Visit http://jetaany.org/magazine to view.

Additional contents below. Thanks to JQ Editor Justin Tedaldi (Kobe-shi CIR, 2001-02) for another sugoi issue. Contact Justin if you’d like to pitch or write a story for the next issue.

        CONTENTS

Page 3……..From the Editor, Japan Local Government Center Executive Director 
Page 4……..Nippon News Blotter / Welcome Suzuki-san 
Page 5……..JETAANY Society Page by Goshippu Garu 
Page 6……..JETlog featuring Byron Nagy 
Page 6……..Samurai in New York Exhibition by Mark Brandstetter 
Page 7……..Bryan Lee O’Malley: The JQ Interview by Justin Tedaldi 
Page 8……..Nihonjin in New York featuring Noriko Hino by Stacy Smith 
Page 9……..Book Corner: Nintendo Magic by David Kowalsky 
Page 10……Nichibei Toastmasters by Pam Kavalam 
Page 11……The Funny Page 
Page 11……The Heiz Rocks On by Hugh Prysten]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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        <link>http://jetaany.org/forum/member_messages/topic-722/?recent=766</link>
        <description><![CDATA[It\'s a veritable JET literary review, featuring Bruce Feiler and Will Ferguson!


http://jetaany.org/magazine]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 17:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[Keio Academy of New York would like to announce that our Summer Program 2010 is officially opened for registration!  We offer a unique US-Japan cross-cultural experience through video production, in addition to other fun-filled activities such as language and cooking classes, martial arts and performing arts workshops, sports events, and field trips!  

Explore the diversity of New York with participants from Japan and the US!  Register online now at www.keio.edu/summerprogram.  Early-bird discount (until March 15) and scholarships (ranging from $300-$1,000) are available!  These scholarships are limited in number, so we encourage you to apply early. 

Getting excited yet?  Can’t wait till summer comes?? Call or email now to schedule a campus tour and meet with a Summer Program representative!]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[The City University of New York (CUNY) will be holding a Re-Entry Conference for their returning study abroad students and would like to have the JET Programme represented at their International Opportunities Fair. Pam Kavalam (Shiga-ken, 2007-2009) will be there and would like 2-3 fellow JET alums to help represent the program. Here is the information:
 
What: International Opportunities Fair – Talk up the JET Programme to CUNY juniors/seniors
Where: CUNY Macaulay Honors College at 35 West 67th South between Columbus and Central Park West
When: Friday, March 5th from 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm (I’ll try to get there early, around 3:30 pm, to set up)
Who: 2-3 Terrific people to talk about their JET experience
For more information on the CUNY Re-Entry Conference: http://www.cuny.edu/academics/oaa/uei/inted.html 
 
If you’re interested, please email Pam at pamela.kavalam@nyu.edu – Hope to hear from you and thank you in advance!]]></description>
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        <link>http://jetaany.org/forum/member_messages/topic-660/?recent=702</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Take advantage of Japan Information Center to promote Japan!
The Japan Information Center (JIC) is the cultural and public affairs
section of the Consulate General of Japan in New York.
[The JIC’s Services]
- Distributes educational materials, posters and pamphlets on Japan
- Provides speakers on various aspects of Japan to the schools throughout
this region
- Provides information on the Japanese Government Scholarships &#38; the JET
Program
- Distributes the e-newsletter Japan Info
- Loans videos/DVDs and cultural artifacts
Please sign up to subscribe Japan Info here:
http://www.ny.us.emb-japan.go.jp/en/c/index.html
For more information and to contact JIC, please go to the website here:
http://www.ny.us.emb-japan.go.jp/en/b/01.html]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[Freelance translator Laura Pollak (Niigata-ken, 2004-06) is trying to get a co-working group of other JET alum translators and freelancers going in NYC. If interested, please see the post below and get in touch with her at laura@jetwit.com to let her know you\'re interested.
http://jetwit.com/wordpress/2009/05/26/new-jet-alum-co-working-group-in-nyc/
 
--Laura Pollack
Niigata-ken \'04-\'06]]></description>
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