Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade Promotion
The Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme seeks to enhance internationalisation in Japan by promoting mutual understanding between the people of Japan and those of other nations.
The JET Programme offer the participants the opportunity to serve (for aa period of 1 year, eventually extendable) in local Japanese authorities as well as public and private elementary, junior high and senior high schools in Japan.
The Programme is implemented by local authorities annd other organisations, which appoint participants in cooperation with 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). The selected applicants will serve as ALT (Assistant Language Teacher) and will be engaged in language teaching. ALTs will be mainly assigned to boards of education, elementary, junior high, or senior high schools, and will work under the guidance of language teachers' consultants or Japanese teachers fo the foreign language.
All information and application procedure is available on the website of the Embassy of Japan in Rome at the following weblink. The applications must be sent by post or other courier service to:
Culture Section
Embassy of Japan in Italy
Via Quintino Sella 60
00187 Rome, Italy
The deadline to submit all documentation has been extended to not later than Monday 26 March 2018 (morning).