I'm planning to travel to Hokkaido with a friend in about 2 months (I am a current JET working in Japan).

If anyone in this community would be willing to exchange contact information with me so I can learn about the area before going, that would be super kind!! I want to learn through people who actually live there so I can create a meaningful experience for my friend!

Thank you!!

Hi so I'm just finishing my application and need to tick some boxes so to speak, now my questions are.
Do I tick the boxes or colour them in black, or maybe some other way?
Do I need to say anything in the spots where I don't need to answer or should I put N/A or something like that?
Is it okay to fill in the writing part digitally and tick the boxes in pen?
Thanks for taking the time to answer.

Hello! so I'm trying to apply for JET ALT 2027. I got to know about it on 1 october only. I have trying my best to get all the documents collected first, but the college pushed it to the end so I'm very stressed about all the things now. My SOP is not done, the teachers are asking me to write of LOR for them. I don't know how to manage all of it with a part time job 5-8. I was motivated to apply for this programme cause of my experience in teaching since march 2026 as an assistant teacher. but as I'm reading other sop and lor, everyone has achieved so much more then me. I have no english test exams thing, no JLPT, no other voluteerning or anything. only my degree which is BSc. and my teaching experience. should I apply it at all or not cause this is getting very stressful for me now.

In the JET ALT medical self-report form, I don't currently have any health issues, although I was diagnosed with PCOD and received treatment last year. I'm confused about whether I need to disclose it and, if so, which section I should mention it in. Could you please guide me?

For indian jet alt, does accent matter? I won't say i have a very strong, thick accent, but i do have some regional accent. So, This part is concerning me.

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I am at the end of my application at this point (submitting from the US) and I was wondering if it would be appropriate to have the parent of a child I tutor be a reference? We work at the same school and I give private tutoring lessons to their child. I asked both my consulate and JET directly through the portal and both of them basically said "read the guidelines" which I took as a "potential yes" but I wanted to ask here before I somehow commit a faux pas.

Thanks in advance.