Applications now closed for the 2008 program. Click here to view application.
Information for Australian Applicants
The closing date for the 2008 JET program applications was Monday 3 December 2007.
Late applications will not be accepted.
New Proceedures for people entering Japan
The time-line for recruitment is as follows
Applications are screened over December and January, with applicants being informed of their results by early February. Interviews for short-listed applicants are held from mid to late February in Canberra and each state capital. Interviewees are informed of the results of their interviews in April. Placement details are usually available in May or June, and successful candidates leave for Japan late July or early August each year. Contracts are for one year, and can be renewed in certain instances for a further one or two years. Please note that no interviews are conducted overseas - including in Japan - for Australian applicants.
Further information is available from the official JET web site maintained by the Council of Local Authorities for International Relations at: www.jetprogram.org. To view the web sites and contact details of the JET Program Alumni Association chapters in Australia click here: http://www.japan.org.au/e_web/JET_Alumni.htm. The JET Program Alumni Association also maintains a very useful international web site at www.jetalumni.org, as does the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs at www.mofa.go.jp/jet/.
NB: These pages contain information for Australian citizens only. Citizens of other countries are advised to contact a Japanese diplomatic mission in their home country, regardless of their Australian Permanent Residency.
Further Information about the JET Program is available from:
- The JET Desk
- Telephone: (02) 6273 2679
- Facsimile: (02) 6273 4332
- jet@japan.org.au
- Consulate-General of Japan
- Brisbane
- (07) 3221 5188
- Japan Information and Cultural Centre (JICC)
- Melbourne
- (03) 9639 3277
- Consulate-General of Japan
- Perth
- (08) 9480 1800
- Consulate-General of Japan,
- Sydney
- (02) 9231 3455