Hi I’m Nathan, Ninja Monkey, the place for Japan travel tips and related news aimed especially
towards future travelers such as students, tourists and business people who are hoping
to enter Japan.
I am currently focusing on what’s happening behind Japan’s closed borders and hopefully
will be giving you some important insights that will be relevant so that you can make
informed decisions.
Thanks to a viewer with links to the JET program, who wishes to remain anonymous. I’ve come
across some interesting information that sheds more light and detail on a previous video
feature regarding JET candidates. Considering that JET is a government program, some of
this might also apply for or give a good idea for other government sponsored programs like
MEXT.
This might also give us a glimpse of what is to come for students and business workers
in the future in terms of a time line anyway. So I’ve put together this shorter feature
video so that I can give you up to date information that will hopefully be useful.
Firstly what is the JET program?
The Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme, is aimed at promoting grass-roots international
exchange between Japan and other nations and is administered by the Ministry of Internal
Affairs and Communications (MIC), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), the Ministry of
Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and the Council of Local Authorities
for International Relations (CLAIR) in Japan.
Through the JET Programme, people from participating countries are invited to Japan and appointed
to work as (assistant language teachers), (coordinators for International relations)
or (Sports Exchange advisors) by local governments or private schools in Japan for one year.
In essence working in Education.
Bearing in mind that this information is directed specifically at Australian applicants but
should apply to all. Although what isn’t clear is if countries where the Delta variant
are include.
So lets check out and break down some of the info,
Dear 2021 JET candidates,
We are emailling you all today with an important update regarding the 2021 JET Programme. Please
read the following information very carefully.
From June, border restrictions for entry into Japan will be lifted for JET participants.
However, in order to avoid the time period where Olympic and Paralympic delegations will
arrive into Tokyo, departure for all Australian participants will not occur until September
at the earliest. This means that there will not be any early arrival candidates this year.
Additionally, in order to avoid many JET participants arriving from around the world at the same
time, the JET Programme is separating the departure/arrival dates into the following:
Sunday 12 September, Sunday 3 October, Sunday 24 October, Sunday 14 November, Sunday 5 December
At this time, it is not yet decided who/which countries will depart on which dates. More
information on when Australian candidates will depart will be sent at a later stage.
(Note that the original departure date of Wednesday September 8 is no longer a departure/
arrival option.)
Regarding your announcement of Contracting Organisation and placement, you will receive
it at the latest two (2) months prior to your departure date. This means that you will most
likely not receive an email from us during June with this announcement (as was originally
scheduled in the 2021 timeline).
Finally, there are some new documents that need to be read/completed. Please find the
following attached in this email:
So firstly, As expected it seems that everything is stopping in order to make sure that entry
into Japan for the Olympics and Paralympics runs as smooth as possible, and another indicator
that it is incredibly unlikely that there will be much change to visa or entry until
the Olympics are finally over.
And although it does mention that the JET entry is allowed as from this month (June)
it seems that at least for Australian JET candidates and potentially all other candidates
there will not be an early arrival into the country with set dates set as from September.
So what can we learn or speculate from this?
Firstly, this is one of the clearest indicators that Japan is reopening for certain education-based
candidates following on from the report of MEXT students being able to enter Japan pretty
much following the same or similar dates.
In the past other students and sectors have been allowed entry soon after MEXT and JET
candidates and therefore we can hope that the same will happen here. At least these
dates will give some sort of indicator of when this might happen if Japan indeed follows
what has happened in the past.
I Wanted to get this out as soon as possible, and will continue investigating and include
all necessary updates in my next feature video in the weekend,
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So, that was Just a quick update with more to follow in the future.. thanks for watching,
Gracias, arigatou, till next time . Bye.