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Save the JET Program

4 July 2010 · 0 Comments

As part of Japan’s efforts to grapple with its massive public debt, the JET (Japan Exchange & Teaching) Program may be cut. Soon after coming into power, the new  government launched a high profile effort to expose and cut wasteful spending. In May 2010, the JET Program and CLAIR came up for review, and during [...]

JETAANY · Japan · Japanese · petition


JET Programme Pre-Departure Seminar NYC

27 June 2010 · 0 Comments

Nippon Club June 26, 2010 Keynote speech by playwright and JET alum Randall David Cook

JETAANY · Japan · Japanese · Photography · Pictures


Halloween 2009

31 October 2009 · 1 Comment

『吾輩は猫である』 Cat + Keytar = Catar (sounds like Qatar, the country in the Middle East)

Fun · Holiday · Japanese · NYC · New York · Photography · Pictures


Procrastination: TranslationParty.com

10 August 2009 · 0 Comments

TranslationParty.com is a simple and amusing procrastination tool that demonstrates the hilarious quirkiness of machine translation. Enter an English phrase and TranslationParty will automatically translate it into Japanese, then back into English, then back into Japanese, etc. Until a Zen-like equilibrium is reached… From Twitter via @myGengo.

Fun · Japan · Japanese · Links · translation


Free the film, Free dolphins

10 August 2009 · 3 Comments

Today, I went to see The Cove, a documentary centering around the annual dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan.  As some reviewers have already said, the movie marries spy-thriller suspense with compelling investigative storytelling.  Because of the Japanese government and whaling interests not wanting the story to get out, the filmmakers had to secretly (and perhaps [...]

Activism · Animals · Japan · Japanese · Movies · News · Video · YouTube