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Sachiko Tsunoda-Bedford comes from Yatsushiro city, Kumamoto prefecture in southern Japan. In July 2013, she married Ryan Giralt Bedford, who worked as an English teacher on the JET Program for 3 years in her hometown, and made the move to … Continued
What is API AJET? How did it get started? The Asian Pacific Islander Association for Japan Exchange and Teaching (API AJET) is a special interest group (SIG) whose mission is to provide peer support for the Asian Pacific Islander (API) … Continued
Name: Elizabeth Slupski Nicknames: Beth JET Placement: Kobe-shi Where I’m from: Milwaukee, WI What brought me to DC: Graduate school (and now a job) I knew I lived in Washington, DC when: I couldn’t cross a street because of a … Continued
This year the Sakura Matsuri’s Street Festival was held on Saturday, April 12, centered on Pennsylvania Ave. NW and stretching from 9th to 14th Streets. It is a major part of the National Cherry Blossom Festival, and the largest Japanese … Continued
Hi everyone, My name is Ryan Bedford and I am the newly elected President of JETAADC for 2014-2015. For the past two years I’ve helped out the organization as its Treasurer and Executive Board member, making sure we had the … Continued