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JET STREAM

Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / JET STREAM
Aug 14, 2003
Working with mentors to change the world
Former JET assistant language teacher Nicole Deutsch has an ideal job. She works with a dynamic team of people from all over the world. And at the end of the day she goes home feeling that she's helped to make the world a better place.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / JET STREAM
May 22, 2003
Political scientist gained key perspective in Japan
On March 19, just hours before U.S. forces began their raids on Baghdad, more than 50 U.S. government intelligence experts as well as scholars and embassy staff from several South Asian countries assembled in a top-floor room at John Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies for a briefing on political Islam in India. The briefing was presented by political scientist Dr. Rollie Lal, a former assistant language teacher in the JET program.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / JET STREAM
Mar 27, 2003
Hitachi's friendly face
A 19th-century merry-go-round has been restored recently in the city of Orleans, 130 km south of Paris, thanks to the efforts of former JET Clarisse Carl. It is something her two children, ages 8 and 5, are proud of. But for Carl, an assistant to the president of Hitachi Europe, it is just one of her numerous accomplishments during the four years she's worked for this Japanese industrial giant.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / JET STREAM
Feb 24, 2003
Speak Japanese? You've got yourself a job
What kind of work will I find after leaving Japan? This is a question nearly all language teachers in Japan ask themselves at some point. And it's a question that's being asked more frequently, given the present state of the economy and its dwindling job prospects. There are, however, remarkable opportunities overseas for those wishing to put their experiences in Japan to use in the field of Japanese-language teaching.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / JET STREAM
Jan 27, 2003
The god of small things
Nanotechnology researcher Istvan Varga is unique among the more than 6,400 participants in this year's JET program. While the majority work as assistant English teachers in Japanese public schools, the 34-year-old Hungarian-born electrical engineer spends his days exploring the secrets of magnetism.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / JET STREAM
Dec 30, 2002
An Ainu 'homecoming' for journeying Navajo
When Marcus Mose, a Native American from the Navajo Nation and an assistant language teacher in Gonohe, Aomori Prefecture, visited the popular Ainu musician Kano Oki in Hokkaido this November, it was like a journey home.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / JET STREAM
Dec 2, 2002
Single mom, sons taste the expat life
In August this year, Nhora Prieto, a native of Colombia, and her two sons arrived in the tiny town of Shichinohe, Aomori Prefecture -- with a population little over 10,000 -- where she now works as an assistant language teacher of English.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / JET STREAM
Nov 15, 2002
Perfectly at home with the local culture
Fame comes easy to Doug Brittain, a four-year resident of Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture. Last August, the 28-year-old assistant language teacher became the grand champion in the island's annual Akadomari Sumo tournament.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / JET STREAM
Nov 1, 2002
Dialogue building as a social service
Patricia Wakida -- writer, editor, book producer and former JET teacher -- was back in Japan last October doing what she does best: networking.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / JET STREAM
Oct 18, 2002
Conducting a whole tradition of music
When symphony conductor Stefan Nedyalkov first visited Tokyo as a child in 1977, he had a premonition. He awoke in his hotel room one morning, convinced that he would return to Japan someday and live here. He was 11 years old at the time and a member of the children's choir of Bulgarian National Radio.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / JET STREAM
Oct 4, 2002
Finding inner silence in the shamisen
When Catriona Sturton first arrived in Japan in August 2000, she knew very little about Japan or its culture. Little did the 24-year-old assistant language teacher know that she would become a skilled shamisen player. But that is exactly what happened -- her musical performances were recently broadcast on television in Hiroshima Prefecture and featured in an Asahi Shimbun article.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / JET STREAM
Sep 20, 2002
Life lessons learned in a township dojo
In August this year, over 3,100 young people from 28 countries gathered at the Keio Plaza Hotel in Tokyo to participate in a Japan Exchange and Teaching orientation program. There to welcome the new JET recruits was Thabiso Kgosana, a South African working in his third year as an assistant language teacher in Fukuoka.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / JET STREAM
Aug 23, 2002
Living like a local
Murdo Maclean is no longer shy about wearing a loincloth and jumping into ice-cold rivers. In fact, it has become an annual event for the red-haired Scot, who has just finished his second year as a coordinator for international relations (CIR) in the town of Ogata, Oita Prefecture.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / JET STREAM
Aug 9, 2002
Tuning in to another culture
Seoul native Kim Ji Sook, host of Fukuoka's Love FM Thursday night Inter Wave radio program, brings the sounds and the spirit of Korea to fans throughout northern Kyushu.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / JET STREAM
Jul 26, 2002
Breaking down people's mental barriers
Joannah Peterson was a bright, attractive, typical 14-year-old when the accident occurred. In the car with her were her older brother and a cousin. Both escaped with minor injuries, but for Peterson, the story was different.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / JET STREAM
Jul 12, 2002
Cultivating tradition
Seventeen boys and girls from Furusawa Elementary School are up to their shins in mud. June is the traditional rice-planting month in the Isumi area of Chiba Prefecture and for the past three years, the local fifth-graders have tried their hands at planting rice the old-fashioned way.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / JET STREAM
Jun 21, 2002
Bringing the classrooms to the children
Several hundred Japanese children sit enchanted as Justin Somi mimics a fluttering butterfly. Somi, a celebrated mime artist and musician, belongs to the Zia tribe that live along the Waria River Valley in Papua New Guinea. For two weeks this spring, he and five other Zia tribesmen visited schools in Niigata Prefecture, where they took their captivated audiences on imaginary journeys through the jungles of PNG with their native songs, drama and dance.
LIFE / Lifestyle / JET STREAM
Jun 7, 2002
Working with people to save the Earth
Money was not Fareeha Ibrahim's reason for joining the JET program. In fact, as a senior policy adviser in Australia's Environment Department, her annual income was significantly more than the 3.6 million yen she gets as a JET.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / JET STREAM
May 24, 2002
Off home in a blaze of space, light and shadow
For the past three years, the painter Beau Bernstein has lived a quiet and contemplative life in Kyoto. That is not to say he hasn't been busy. When the native New Yorker closes his Kyoto studio in July and returns to Manhattan, he'll take back with him an impressive new series of oil paintings.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / JET STREAM
May 10, 2002
Father and sons make JET a family affair
Last summer, Chris Buckland, 50, bicycled 2,100 km on a journey from Tokyo to Himeji, in Hyogo Prefecture. For Buckland, a collector of ukiyo-e prints, it was the fulfillment of a dream to travel the old Tokaido route from Tokyo to Kyoto, immortalized in the classic ukiyo-e illustrations of the Edo Period artist Hiroshige.

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