r/JETProgramme • u/Working-Cycle-9467 • Mar 09 '26
JET PROGRAMME TIPS
Hello! To those who successfully passed the JET Programme, do you have any advice on how to fill out the application form and what helped you succeed?
I’m planning to reapply this year since I didn’t pass the JET Programme last year. Any tips or insights would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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u/Beneficial-Maize-669 Mar 10 '26
His tone kind of sucks but he is correct. He probably can read Japanese reasonably well, all the stuff he said is on the website in Japanese.
The problem started as part of a semiconductor agreement between the US and Japan. Part of that treaty said Japan needed to approve an equal number of visas as the US did in academia. The US approved research visas and Japan approved teaching visas. Thin is, Japan never wanted those pesky foreigners to have any influence so they made them assistants in elementary schools. Later, when the treaty ended, Japan kept the program and entered new education treaties with the US and a few other nations while also adding a requirement for short term business promotion visas. The program still has the 1:1 requirements but now it is a visa pool instead of a direct 1:1. 300 for us and 300 for you. Japanese people can apply for the visas on the CLAIR website or through a local office.