The Mikan Mailbox: Halloween Edition
The Mikan Mailbox: Halloween Edition 🎃📮 Welcome to The Mikan Mailbox, our community’s anonymous post box! This is a dedicated space for those bite-sized stories of life in Japan that […]
A Never-Ending Mikan Sun: Welcome Party 2026
A Never-Ending Mikan Sun: Welcome Enkai 2026 Japan welcomed them with so much warmth, and they returned the favor. Despite exhaustion from orientation and the summer heat, 101% of those […]
Making Waves: The 2026 Ehime AJET Farewell Beach Party
by Vince Madriaga “There are places I remember. All my life, though some have changed…” The opening lines of The Beatles’ classic ring true to anyone who has found a […]
🍊maga(ZINE): March🎓
March 2025 Hey, Mikans! As you know, or, if you’re a new JET, as you’ll come to know, March in Japan is a season of change. From the melting snowcaps […]
Shikoku’s Big Three
Justin Dobbs 2024 MIKAN BLOG WRITER & COPY EDITOR Justin is a first year JET based on the edge of Ehime in Shikokuchuo. Coming from a writing/communications background in suburban […]
First & Last ALT
Chloe Spearing 2023 Arrival, SHS ALT in Tanbara, Saijo, Toyo A RA Chloe Spearing (クロイ) is from the very south of England, only 15 minutes from the English Channel. She […]