Applications for the 2026 intake are closed.
Applications for 2027 will open in autumn 2026.
Pre-Departure Orientation Dates:
London - 7th July
Edinburgh - 9th July
Shortlisted Candidates must attend PDO in their place of interview.
Welcome to the Official UK JET Programme Website
The Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme is the Japanese Government's official long-running international exchange and English-teaching programme.
Since its founding in 1987, more than 11,000 UK graduates have made their own unique impact within the Japanese community
through internationalisation at the grassroots level and foreign language teaching.
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Life on JET
Elizabeth Wilder
ALT, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, 2018-2021.
As a child, I was drawn to Japanese language and culture and knew that I wanted to live there one day. I studied French and Japanese at the University of Leeds from 2014-2018, and had the opportunity to live in Japan in 2016 on my year abroad. I studied at Nanzan University in Nagoya, Aichi prefecture, and took classes in tea ceremony, ikebana flower arranging, hanga woodblock printing, and calligraphy. However, I felt my time in Japan was too short and that I had only just touched on the surface of what living there is like. On my year abroad, my friends...
Kiran Sharda
ALT and Prefectural Advisor, Miyazaki Prefecture, 2016-2021
Life on JET is hard to sum up in such a short space and it would be wrong of me to tell what you will or won’t experience. It becomes a bit of cliché but honestly every JET placement is so different and unique that to try to give you an overall picture of what you will experience on the programme is an almost impossible task.
However, therein lies the fantastic appeal of the JET Programme in my opinion. Whereas a year studying abroad or even a working holiday can be a rich and indeed rewarding experience, what the JET Programme offers is chance to interact with a local...
