I was fortunate enough to be invited to the send-off reception for the 15 Jamaicans successful in their quest to be English teachers in Japan via Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme (JET). The reception was hosted by the Japanese Ambassador to Jamaica Hiroshi Yamaguchi and his wife Mrs Yamaguchi....

All Nippon Airways or ANA is the second largest airline in Japan after Japan Airlines. ANA has teamed up with Bandai Namco to mark the 30 anniversary of Gunpla in Japan by painting one of its Boeing 777-300 aircraft with a Gundam on one side and a ANA x Gundam logo on the other side. Gundam fans will...

After seven years the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) programme is not slowing down. The latest group of participants got a fine send-off from Ambassador Masahiro Obata at his residence on Seaview Avenue last Friday. Fourteen young people will be heading to the land of the rising sun to help teach...

Don’t know what a F22 is? shame on you! <_>. I have been following the Development of the F22 since it started it’s later stages for around five years now. I am also a military buff quietly and in fact I spent three years of high school in the Jamaica Combined Cadet Force. Of the little...

As I have been saying for a while last Monday evening there was a little meeting to discuss the JET program at the private school that I am currently studying Japanese at. I attended as planned right after leaving work on Monday and as soon as I arrived in the room I was surprised at the number of persons...