News & Updates
Japanese Language Coaching: April 24, 2026
Boost your Japanese skills with guidance from our language coaching experts! Join us on the evening of Friday, April 24th in the US or the morning of Saturday, April 25th in Japan to work on your ペラペラ!
Japanese Reading Group: April 2026
Spring is right around the corner, and what better way to celebrate the season than with a reading about cherry blossoms? Join us on Friday, April 10 at 8:00 PM ET. 🌸
Career Coaching Collective: Define Your Career Direction
For the second installment of our Career Coaching Series, Kristy Ishii (Gunma, 2016-2018) will lead Define Your Career Direction, a workshop designed to help turn a nonlinear path into a more strategic next step, grounded in clarity, market awareness, and decisive action.
March Ouchigohan: Miso Madness
Get ready to stir, whisk, and taste your way through MISO MADNESS on Saturday, March 21 at 5:30PM ET!
NEW! University Partnership: GLOBIS
USJETAA is excited to announce the addition of GLOBIS University to our University Partnerships.
Countering Gray-Zone Competition: Comparing U.S. and Japan Responses
Connor McKenzie (Hyogo, 2016-2019)
Regional competition and strategic decision-making in the Indo-Pacific are increasingly unfolding in murky domains, often described with terms such as gray-zone. State and nonstate actors rely on these ambiguous tactics and strategies to exploit and coerce targets without engaging in direct physical conflict, evoking the gray-zone between war and peace.
JETs on Japan: March, 2026
JET Info Session: March 31, 2026
We are hosting a virtual JET Info Session on Tuesday, March 31 at 8PM ET!
Japanese Reading Group: March 2026
Join us on Friday, March 13 at 7:00 PM ET to read part of an essay about politics by writer and activist Amamiya Karin titled "「日本人ファースト」以降のこの国で起きていることと、世界各国の「移民排斥」「自国第一」の動き" (What's happening in the country after "Japanese First," and the immigrant rejection/one's-own-country-first movements around the world).

