Submitted by Curtis A. Dye
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Here’s What Some of Our Recent Japanese Language Majors Are Doing:
Teaching in Japan:
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Assistant Language Teacher at Hirosaki Board of Education (JET Program)
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Assistant Language Teacher (English language teacher) for Joytalk Corporation in Japan
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Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) at Kobe City Board of Education
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Assistant Language Teacher at Kure City Board of Education
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English instructor in public Junior High Schools and Elementary schools for the Osaka Board of Education
Business, Communications, Localization, Translation, and Non-Profit Cultural:
- Brand manager on the Playstation software marketing team at Sony (Foster City, CA)
- Claims Data Assistant at Trupanion Pet Insurance
- Corporate Communications at JSR Corporation
- Developer at Healtho
- Enrollment Services Coordinator at Associates in Cultural Exchange
- Employee at Suntory Japan
- Marketing and Communications Coordinator at the Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Washington
- Project Management and Quality Assurance at Cerego Japan
- Seller Support Associate at Amazon
- Editorial work for a Japanese bilingual newspaper
- International Project Manager at VMC
- Investigations Specialist (Temp) at Amazon / Freelance Translator at YKS Services
- Localization Quality Assurance Project Manager at Zynga, a leading social gaming company in Silicon Valley
- English Localization at Cygames / Standard Translator at myGengo.com
- Localizing the English websites (Allrecipes.com and LinkedIn.com) to Japanese
- Technical writer for a barcode scanner manufacturing company
- Translation (internal documents, presentations, etc.), interpreting (for producers/creators in media interviews) and marketing at Capcom USA (Street Fighter, Resident Evil, etc.)
- Translation/editing for fashion publications in Japan
- Translator for a fashion import company
- Working for a Japan-founded IT (web and email hosting) company based in the United States