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Revision as of 21:29, 27 April 2008 by Qworty (talk | contribs) (→Further reading: rv self-promotional vanity-press spam)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)A Coordinator for International Relations (国際交流員, Kokusai Kōryūin), or CIR, is a partipant on the JET Programme residing and working in Japan. Although responsibilities for a CIR vary according to his or her contracting organization, the majority of a CIR's time is spent organizing and assisting various projects related to adjusting Japanese society to an increasingly multilingual, multicultural, and international world. Many of these project include but are not limited to: international exchange programs, primary and secondary school visits, language classes, cooking classes, cultural lectures, as well as translating and interpreting. CIRs are employed throughout Japan at international exchange associations, prefectural offices, city halls, town halls, village halls, and boards of education.
JET is administered by CLAIR (Council of Local Authorities for International Relations) and funded by MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology).
Number of CIRs
As of July 1st, 2006, there are 431 CIRs which account for approximately 8% of the 5,488 JET Programme participants. The number of CIRs in each prefecture and designated city is as follows:
| Prefecture/Designated City | Number of CIRs |
|---|---|
| Hokkaido | 8 |
| Aomori | 20 |
| Iwate | 4 |
| Miyagi | 7 |
| Akita | 10 |
| Yamagata | 5 |
| Fukushima | 5 |
| Ibaraki | 4 |
| Tochigi | 6 |
| Gunma | 2 |
| Saitama | 8 |
| Chiba | 3 |
| Tokyo | 0 |
| Kanagawa | 1 |
| Niigata | 11 |
| Toyama | 12 |
| Ishikawa | 21 |
| Fukui | 4 |
| Yamagata | 4 |
| Nagano | 13 |
| Gifu | 17 |
| Shizuoka | 5 |
| Aichi | 8 |
| Mie | 9 |
| Shiga | 6 |
| Kyoto | 6 |
| Osaka | 1 |
| Hyogo | 7 |
| Nara | 5 |
| Wakayama | 4 |
| Tottori | 17 |
| Shimane | 30 |
| Okayama | 4 |
| Hiroshima | 6 |
| Yamaguchi | 4 |
| Tokushima | 6 |
| Kagawa | 6 |
| Ehime | 7 |
| Kochi | 17 |
| Fukuoka | 5 |
| Saga | 6 |
| Nagasaki | 13 |
| Kumamoto | 6 |
| Oita | 12 |
| Miyazaki | 18 |
| Kagoshima | 14 |
| Okinawa | 11 |
| Sapporo City | 5 |
| Sendai City | 2 |
| Yokohama City | 2 |
| Kawasaki City | 1 |
| Nagoya City | 1 |
| Kyoto City | 0 |
| Osaka City | 5 |
| Kobe City | 2 |
| Hiroshima City | 4 |
| Kitakyushu City | 3 |
| Fukuoka City | 5 |
| Chiba City | 2 |
| Saitama City | 0 |
| Shizuoka City | 0 |
| Sakai City | 1 |
External links
- CIR Homepage: the official website for CIRs all over Japan
- National AJET: the Association for Japan Exchange and Teaching
- The JET Programme: the official JET Programme website
Further reading
- David L. McConnell, Importing Diversity: Inside Japan's JET Program (2000)
- Bruce Feiler, Learning to Bow: An American Teacher in a Japanese School (1991), later published as Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan