Study Abroad Programs (year, semester, summer)

• Junior Year Abroad (JYA)
• Junior Semester Abroad (JSA)
• Bates Fall Semester in Japan (FSA) conducted by Bates' professors
• Summer Japanese Language Programs in the U.S. & Japan
• Eurocentres Kanazawa website

Take a look before you go to Japan

• Information for anyone visiting or relocating to Japan
• Japan Information
• Web Japan (information about Japan)
• Japan Photo Gallery
• Currency converter
• Unit market (other converter)
  

Scholarships

• Bridging Scholarships for Study in Japan by ATJ
• Japan Scholarships for Study in Japan
  
• Monbu-Kagaku-sho (by the Ministry of Education & Culture)
  • Japanese language schools
  • Support for finding employment at Japanese companies
  • Career development program for students from Asia
  • Graduate program / Post doctorial / Follow up research / etc.
    
• Fulbright (JFMF to Japan for teachers in primary & secondary schools)
• Rotary
• Kansai Gaidai also provides a scholarship.
• Japan Foundation
  

Summer Internship programs or jobs

• Pasona International Summer Internship Program (for 2015)
• The Mansfield Foundation Internship Programs
  
• Assistant for the Summer Japanese Course at St. Paul's School in Concord, NH
• Hakusan International School, Komatsu, Ishikawa-ken
  
• Forval Summer Internship for the junior (Unfortunately this program ended.)
  
  Ngan Dinh '02, Megan Tobin '00, Soo-Yeun Kim '98, Leah Jewett '97, Emily King '95, Anna Louise England '93, Brad Adams '92
• Nanbu Summer Internship for the graduate students
  • Barnaby S. Donlon '93 (from The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy --a joint program of Harvard and Tufts) worked in Kobe.
• ?? Summer Internship for the graduate students
  • John P. Connolly '01 (who studied JPN at Bates and is studying biology at Dartmouth College) worked in Osaka in the summer of 2002.

Job Opportunities / Links for job hunting

• JET (Japan Exchange & Teaching) Program--for more information & almni
  Journal / Report of Ian Fontaine '07 (an English teacher in Tokushima-ken in 2010-2012)
  
• AATJ (teaching --www.aatj.org/jobs/index.html; other kinds -- www.aatj.org/jobs/job3.html)
• Interac (Private provider of assistant English teaches; contact Adam Roux (former Bates student) for more inforamtion)
• Nikkei Placement Service
• Interac (English Teacher)
  
• Japan Career (English Teacher)
• Gaijin Pot (Jobs & Apartments)
• Find Jobs in Japan (Variety)
• Jobs in Japan (Variety / Self Ad: Jobs wanted postings)
• Dai-Job (Veriety)
• Saboten Web (Japanese Teacher; other info)
  

Other experiences (Some might be out of date.)

• Kiyosato Educational Experiment Project
• Concodia Language Villages
  
• Translator Shortage in the U.S. government
• Volunteer Quests (by United Planet Organization)
• Volunteer in Japan: 2-52 weeks (and other countries)

Public Organizations for scholarships, programs, jobs, and information in general

• Consulate General of Japan in Boston
• Japanese Embassy and Consulate General in the U.S. and other countries
• Japan Foundation in NYC
  
• Japan foundation in LA
• Japan Foundation in London