Jeni Washeleski talks about her experiences in the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program (JET). What was your work like as part of the JET Program, and what you do now? On the JET Program, I worked at ...

Pursuing a career as an English teacher is one of the fastest ways to live and work in Japan—provided you meet the requirements. However, the drawbacks to this convenience are the industry’s ...

Pursuing a career as an English teacher is one of the fastest ways to live and work in Japan—provided you meet the requirements. However, the drawbacks to this convenience are the industry’s ...

The Center for Asian Studies welcomes Patricia Yarrow, a CU Alumna, who is visiting from Japan and will give a presentation about her working her way through the Japanese education system as an ...

Japan's teacher internship was a hotly debated political issue for three decades until the legislature finally approved its implementation in 1988. The aim of this paper is to explore how the culture ...

As a child, Wishma Rathnayake was fascinated with “Oshin,” a popular 1980s’ television drama about a young girl who rises from poverty to head a Japanese supermarket chain. Urged by her father to ...

Many college graduates enter the workforce not knowing what to expect. Courtney LaFerle really didn't know what to expect. LaFerle, a Larkin graduate who earned her bachelor's degree from Valparaiso ...