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According to the student council, every district or larger city has a District student council/City student council. At the municipal level, these councils deal with the school authorities and with the individual institutions, such as school offices, etc. Above this there is a state student representation in each state, where delegates from ...
The Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme (外国語青年招致事業, Gaikokugo Seinen Shōchi Jigyō), shortly as JET Programme (JETプログラム, Jetto Puroguramu), is a teaching program sponsored by the Japanese government that brings university graduates to Japan as Assistant Language Teachers (ALTs), Sports Education Advisors (SEAs) or as Coordinators for International Relations (CIRs ...
My everyday work life was in a quiet suburb of Tokyo called Hidaka. I made a comfortable, mostly tax-free, salary of about $2,500 a month (300,000 yen), teaching English at local middle and ...
A students' union or student union, [note 1] is a student organization present in many colleges, universities, and high schools.In higher education, the students' union is often accorded its own building on the campus, dedicated to social, organizational activities, representation, and academic support of the membership.
David L. McConnell, Importing Diversity: Inside Japan's JET Program (2000) Bruce Feiler, Learning to Bow: An American Teacher in a Japanese School (1991), later published as Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan; Eric Sparling Japan Diary: A year on JET (2005) Nicholas Klar, My Mother is a Tractor: A Life in Rural Japan (2005)
The University Teachers Union (大学教員組合 – Daigaku Kyouin Kumiai) was founded in January 1999 and represents the interests of tertiary-level teachers in the Kanto region of Japan. Membership is open to any teacher, regardless of nationality, who is employed at a university, college, or post-graduate institution in a non-management post.
The All Japan Federation of Teachers' and Staff Unions (Japanese: 全日本教職員組合, Zenkyo) is a trade union representing workers in the education sector in Japan. The union was established in April 1991, when the Japan High School Teachers' Union merged with the recently founded All Japan Council of Teachers and Staff Union.
JASC is the oldest student-run exchange between these two countries. In 1934, a small group of Japanese university students concerned about the deteriorating relations between the United States and Japan initiated the first JASC in Tokyo. The following year, American students reciprocated by hosting the second JASC.