[ii] In creating these newsletters, the information was initially on sharing of my own American culture and of issues related to language education. However, I have also shared other cross-cultural insights on travel, holidays, and thoughts on other countries I have worked in, i.e. sharing of cultures other than the USA. I comment, for example, on Germany, Kuwait, and Japan.
[iii] In other words, these three goals have been common to the JET Program in Japan and are common to the goals of the project I now teach for here in Taiwan. .
[iv] "What is JET?" http://www.jetprogramme.org/e/faq/faq01what.html
[v] Monbusho is the acronym in Japan for the Ministry of Education
[vi] The Council of Local Authorities for International Relations (CLAIR) administers the JET Programme in cooperation with local government organisations; the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC); the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA); and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). CLAIR provides support for both JET Programme participants and their Contracting Organisations by arranging each JET participant's arrival, holding orientation seminars, as well as providing counselling and distributing a wide variety of essential resource materials and information.
http://www.jetprogramme.org/e/introduction/index.html
[vii] CLAIR and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs promote all kinds of exchanges internationally--such as partner city and partner institution exchanges. For example, the city of Tokyo has numerous exchanges for its police force, its fire department, its hospitals, etc. to be involved in Southeast and South Asia. Civil engineers and doctors are also involved in exchanges to aid in development work around the globe through CLAIR and foreign ministry assistance and promotions.
[viii] When I taught in Japan, I came to realize that public high school's funding in each prefecture came almost wholly from the prefectural level (with some monies chipped in by Monbusho). This led to a greater lack of ownership for the JET scheme or JET project at the high school levels across Japan than was typically the case for JET projects at the elementary and junior high levels. Due to this ownership (of the local JET) issue, I observed in the 1990s that the JETs at primary school and at junior highs were used more efficiently and give much more autonomy than was the case for JETs at the public high school.
[ix] MOE, http://english.moe.gov.tw/lp.asp?ctNode=512&CtUnit=976&BaseDSD=7&mp=1
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