image from shutterstock.com inside October, 2011 04 The Prez 06 AJET Events 10 JET Effect 14 Life After JET 19 Culture Corner 30 Volunteering Japan 34 Volunteering Japan 38 Travel 48 Food 58 Workplace Tips 64 Haiku 68 Fashion and Beauty 72 Games & Hardward 76 The Art of Manliness 82 Japanese Study Tips photo via shutterstock.com 86 Photo Contest Welcome to Connect The monthly e-zine produced for JETs, by JETs, featuring the best news and articles from all over Japan. We are currently looking for writers, editors, photographers, and artists who want to create con- tent for this national publication! We need YOU, the JET community, to get involved. Send us your short stories, news articles, photographs, comics… whatever it is that you do best…to
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[email protected] photo via shutterstock.com 3 Welcome to the October are sometimes overlooked. However, this made Edition of AJET connect! me question.... is everyone else? It’s been a significant month in the world of the JET Programme. How do we as JETs promote the On September 8th, the ministries hosted a com- value of what we do and the return memorative symposium at the University of Tokyo on investment that we provide to discuss 25 years of the JET Programme; what to the communities we serve? it has accomplished, and what challenges it faces today.