Japan Exchange and Teaching Program Alumni Association Chapter Opens in Nashville
November 13, 2008
Alumni of the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program and distinguished guests celebrated the opening of the latest chapter of the JET Alumni Association (JETAA) on November 7, 2008. Over 50 people including Mayor Carl Dean and Consul-General Hiroshi Sato attended the reception held at the Loew’s Vanderbilt Plaza Hotel. The new JETAA chapter, Music-City JETAA, is the 19th such chapter in the United States. JET Program alumni continue to foster grass-roots exchange between Japan and the US through their local JETAA Chapters.
The JET Program, which is sponsored by the Government of Japan and administered locally by Consulates-General of Japan, aims to improve foreign language education in Japan and to promote international understanding. Since the program's establishment in 1987, over 50,000 university graduates from 55 different countries have been invited to represent their home countries to local communities in Japan. The JET Program has become one of the most successful exchange programs in the world.
Program participants either teach English at secondary schools as Assistant Language Teachers (ALTs) or work in local government offices as Coordinators for International Relations (CIRs) in Japan.
For more information about the JET Program, or JETAA please visit www.mofa.go.jp or contact the Consulate-General of Japan at Nashville at (615) 340-4300.
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