AJET Welcome Dinner 2019
We have a new JET! Let’s welcome her with dinner at Everest Nepalese Restaurant on Okaido. We’ll be meeting March 15th after the BOE meeting. Please say your going on […]
Feast Or Famine: Being an ALT in a Senior High School
By Jordan Rocke For this article, I tried to thing of an interesting perspective I could provide here. In the past, I’ve talked with some first year Primary or Junior […]
Stonewall Ice Skate 2019
Looking Back, Moving Forward: My Day as a Samurai at Matsuyama Castle
By Joshua Hill I woke up this Christmas Eve with a new anticipation. Instead of performing the traditional caroling and cookie decorating with my family, back in America, I would […]
Why Japan is Scared to Fix Overwork Culture
By Tim van Gardingen On an empty train station platform in rural Japan, there is a poster pasted on the wall with a message in imposing red letters: “Stop Karoshi!” […]
VR Zone Shinjuku: Top 3 Experiences
By Niall Magee Last December I went to VR Zone Shinjuku, a virtual reality park in Tokyo, for the second time. It opened in July 2017 and will be closing […]
The Nightmare of Names
By Tim van Gardingen What’s in a name? Or, in the case of Japan, what on earth is the name in the first place? I found out the hard way […]
Post-JET Diaries- Part Seven
By Jennifer Cerna February “Take a chance, you stupid hoe. 怖がってるんじゃねえ。” –Gwen Stefani February started off on a positive note. Work was going fine and I no longer felt on […]
Hokkaido: An Exercise in Getting Lost Traveling
By Lucas Buechler I am terrible at vacationing. When I go on a trip, I have neither an itinerary nor the desire to construct one. I am the type of […]