CLAIR requests each JET participant to register for the Safety Confirmation System (Emergency Call) and Contact Information Survey. These are two separate systems. Please register using the links below. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact your supervisor.
Safety Confirmation System: asp2.emc-call.jp/clair/
Your login ID and password are both the final nine numbers of your JET Number, omitting the first two digits (20).
Contact Information Survey: goo.gl/u1gVT2
Login ID: JET Number (11 digits beginning with 20)
Password: Date of birth (YYYYMMDD)
With the aim of enhancing mental health support for JET participants, CLAIR offers the JET Programme Mental Health Counselling Assistance Programme. This programme provides a partial subsidy (50%, up to 20,000 yen per year) for counselling costs incurred through consultation with mental health professionals in Japan not covered by health insurance. The coverage period for this year is from Sunday, 1 April 2018 to Sunday, 31 March 2019. Please submit your application form for the subsidy through your contracting organisation by 12 April 2019.
CLAIR also offers a free online counselling service to provide JET participants with mental health assistance from professional counsellors using Web Mail and Skype. If you would like to use this service, please access the following website. After entering the password, you will be instructed to register. You can receive up to seven Skype Counselling sessions from 1 July 2018 to 31 March 2019. CLAIR recommends trying the Web Mail Counselling system first. There is no limit to the number of threads you can start in the Web Mail Counselling system.
Web Mail Counselling
Login Password: Please ask your contracting organization.
English: www.kokoro-soudan.net/en/
Japanese: www.kokoro-soudan.net/
Skype Counselling
Login Password: Please ask your contracting organization.
English: www.fismec.co.jp/hiroba/en/secure
Japanese: www.fismec.co.jp/hiroba/secure
CLAIR has created English versions of the Teacher’s Guides for the “Let’s Try! 1 & 2” and “We Can! 1 & 2” textbooks for JET Participants to use.
jetprogramme.org/en/textbook-translations/
Login Password: Please ask your contracting organization.
Are you a JET participant entering into your 2nd-5th year with JLPT qualification N2 or higher? Are you interested in working in Japan after the JET Programme? This year CLAIR will once again offer a 5-day internship programme to provide JET participants with the opportunity to gain experience working in a Japanese company.
Further details were sent out by e-mail. If you did not receive this information, please contact your contracting organization.
jetprogramme.org/en/jetinternship/
JET participants finishing their appointments in 2019 should refer to CLAIR’s online After JET Guide for information about how to prepare for your successor, move out of your apartment, deal with “reverse culture shock”, and prepare for your next career move.
The 2019 edition of the General Information Handbook is now available at the link below.
Personal tax affairs in one’s home country are the responsibility of each JET participant. Be sure to receive and keep your gensen chōshūhyō, or Statement of Earnings. Please refer to page 63 of the 2019 edition of the General Information Handbook (GIH) for more details.
JET participants finishing their appointments in April may be eligible to receive a pension refund (lump-sum withdrawal payment). For more information, please refer to page 165 of the 2019 edition of the General Information Handbook (GIH).
For JET participants who arrived in April, it is almost time to extend your period of stay, so please check the dates written on your Residence Card (especially JET participants in their third year who will be reappointed for another term). For information on extending your Period of Stay or changing your Status of Residence, please refer to page 69 of the 2019 edition of the General Information Handbook (GIH).
New General Information Handbook 2019: jetprogramme.org/en/gih/
Registration for Japanese language courses is still possible after the deadline for a course has passed. Please check the course guide before registering via the online Contact Information Survey for JET Participants (link in first section). Participants who apply before Wednesday, 10 April will be able to start their course on Wednesday, 1 May. For those whose courses have already started, please remember to plan your study schedule ahead of time.
CLAIR and The Yomiuri Shimbun publish a column in The Japan News, a globally-circulated English language newspaper. JET Programme Voices is a collection of articles submitted by current and former JET participants to give a worldwide audience insight into the unique experiences and achievements of participants during their time on the Programme. Instructions regarding the submission of documents are accessible from the link below.
The Rugby World Cup is coming to Japan in 2019! Tickets are available via the website below until Sunday, 31 March.
tickets.rugbyworldcup.com
For more information about the Rugby World Cup teams and schedules, please click on the following link:
visitjapan2019.com
This article was composed based on a promotion request from the Rugby World Cup 2019 Organising Committee.
