Life on JET

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...

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...

ALT, Naoshima, Kagawa Prefecture, 2016-2018

Most people yearning to travel to Japan probably have a preconceived idea of what its people, culture, and life will be like. A film student, I myself had a romanticised image of what I expected Japan to be like; urban...

ALT, Nonoichi-shi, Ishikawa Prefecture, 2016 – 2018

The name Nonoichi-shi (Field Field City – City 野々市市) didn’t exactly strike a deep sense of excitement when I received my placement information. In all honesty, the only interesting feature...

ALT Fuchu City, Hiroshima Prefecture 2010 - 2015

Since my teenage years I always had the dream of teaching English abroad. After university I fell into a job where I became comfortable and my dreams were put on the backburner. A trip to the rural depths of Shizuoka...

ALT, Akita City, Akita Prefecture, 2017 – 2022

“Wait?... Like the dog?” I thought, out loud.

At the time, I knew very little about my new home and like most prospective JETs, I spent hours punching keywords into Google hoping to get a...

CIR Nishinoshima, Shimane Prefecture 2016 - 2022

I was working as a secretary and administrative officer at a Hong Kong-based Japanese company when I found myself at a stand-still. Having studied in both Hong Kong and United Kingdom, I went from earning my B.A. in...