Join us on Friday, February 6 at 7:00 PM ET to read an essay by contemporary essayist Hanamae Yuka.

This January, Japan Society of Boston featured Allen Wan (Ishikawa, 1990-1992), in their JSB meets JET Alumni series.

Join us on Saturday, January 24 at 6:00 PM ET to learn how to make gyoza and nabe!

Our January Photo of the Month comes from Annabel Baker-Sullivan (Hokkaido 2018-2020).

A 15-year-old Carlo Capua wasn’t thrilled when his mother suggested he try a program one summer that was mentioned in a certain pamphlet that arrived at their house. “I said, ‘Mom, that sounds terrible. I wanna go play sports — baseball or soccer.’” Capua, a native of Fort Worth, Texas, stated. “And she said, ‘Just give it a shot. It’s just two weeks over the summer. I think you’ll enjoy it.’”

USJETAA is excited to welcome Eigo Ganbare as our newest JET Alum-Owned Business Sponsor!

Join us on January 9 at 7:00 PM ET for our first reading of 2026! We will be reading Diary of a Boy’s New Year by Ogawa Mimei, a well known writer of children’s stories and fairy tales.

For our first-ever installment of the Career Coaching Collective, the topic is “The AI Career Advantage,” led by Tsehay Wright (Nagano, 2015–2017). This series is designed to take participants from an “overwhelmed applicant” to a more strategic candidate.

The job market has evolved, and this series emphasizes that your search strategy needs to evolve with it rather than relying on AI to “write for you”.