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!

Web links:

• USJETAA: www.usjetaa.org
• Table for Two: https://usa.tablefor2.org/⁠
• Edamame Champ (includes team registration & event playbooks): https://www.wa-shokuiku.org/edamamechamp
• Onigiri Action: https://usa.tablefor2.org/onigiri-action
• Washokuiku: https://www.wa-shokuiku.org/
• USJETAA Jobs Board: Washokuiku Volunteer Position: https://usjetaa.org/job-opportunities-internship-listings/volunteer-japanese-food-education-cooking-wa-shokuiku/
• USJETAA Jobs Board: Washokuiku Instructor Postion: https://usjetaa.org/job-opportunities-internship-listings/japanese-food-education-instructor-wa-shokuiku/

Contact: wa-shokuiku@tablefor2.org 

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

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottpulizzi/
• https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/people/scott-pulizzi

Rebecca Guttentag

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-guttentag/

MIIS - Middlebury Institute for International Studies at Monterey

• https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/

JET Scholarship for MIIS

• go.miis.edu/jet

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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Special thanks to USJETAA and CLAIR for their support for the JETAA-sphere!

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: samanthalastres@gmail.com, stevenwaseda@gmail.com 

Thanks to our submitters: Laura Egan (Miyagi 2015 - 2018), Joe Palermo (Gunma 1982-83), Scot Alprin (Aichi 1992-1995), Sarah Coomber (Yamaguchi 1994-96), Steven Horowitz (Aichi-ken, Kariya-shi, 1992-94), Anntanya Shair (Hyogo 2019-2022) www.anntanya.com, Scot Maupin (Hokkaido 2005-09) check out his podcast http://perfectshow.site/episodes/

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.

Co-Hosts

• Steven Horowitz (Aichi-ken, 1992-94)
• Ryan Hata (Tottori-ken, 2014-17)

Organizations mentioned:

• JETAA International
• JETAA International Advisory Board
• JETAA International Executive Committee
• List of all JETAA chapters worldwide
• List of Country Representatives (CRs) for JETAA in each country
• JET30: JETAA International Meeting and Global Forum 2016
• JETAA New South Wales
• JETAA Singapore
• JETAA UK
• Life After JET podcast by Eden Law
• JETAA Tokyo
• JETAA Western Japan

JET Alumni mentioned in this episode:

• Olivia Clarke
• Rose Tanasugarn
• John Lucas
• Andrew Massey - JETAA Canada CR and new JETAAI Vice-Chair
• Lawrence Innis - JETAA Trinidad & Tobago
• Matt Gillam, CLAIR NY
• Xander Peterson
• Mark Frey

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.

• Click this link http://bit.ly/VBL-Register to register for the May 28 book launch event!

Ep 15 Co-hosts:

• Steven Horowitz (Aichi-ken, Kariya-shi, 1992-94)
• Mark Frey (Kumamoto-ken, 2002-2006)

About Prof. Takaaki Hiratsuka: 

• List of Prof. Hiratsuka's writings and presentations
• Bio: Takaaki Hiratsuka is an associate professor in the Department of Global Studies at Ryukoku University, in Kyoto where he teaches a range of applied linguistics courses and supervises master's and PhD students in related fields of language teacher education and narrative inquiry. He has a PhD in Language Teaching and Learning from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. And an avid futsal player.

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

• Bruce Feiler (Tochigi-ken, 1988-89), author of numerous best-sellers including Learning to Bow
• David L. McConnell, author of Importing Diversity: Inside Japan's JET Program
• Earth Bennett (Aomori-ken, 2000-03), author of the JET cartoon strip series Every Situation Is Different
• David Namisato (Aomori-ken-2002-04), author of the cartoon book Life After the B.O.E.
• Khalid Birdsong (Osaka-fu, Shimamoto-cho, 2003-05), author of the cartoon series Fried Chicken & Sushi

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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!