2025 JETAAC Kansougeikai!

On April 1st, JETAA Chicago's next chapter began! And to celebrate the transition, we are hosting the annual Kansougeikai celebration online!

A combination of a Kangeikai (welcome party) and a Soubetsukai (goodbye party), on Friday, April 25th, 7 pm CST, join your fellow alumni for an evening of casual conversation and fun community building as we kick-off the next 12 months with a bang. Activities will include Lord of the Rings trivia and games - come and show us what you got!

Event theme (optional) = Your Enkai Best! Enjoy dressing up for enkais? Have something you wish you could have worn? Well show us your enkai best as we celebrate together! Including but not limited to fashion, zoom backgrounds, accessories and more!

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This event is for alumni only.

Questions? Contact us at info@jetaachicago.com

Volunteer Needed for Japanese American Service Committee (JASC) Virtual Event

The Japanese American Service Committee (JASC) is looking for someone who would be willing to volunteer to be a Zoom tech for a virtual program happening on April 18th: "Mirrored Lives 2: Exploring Japanese Civilian Life in the U.S. and Japan During and Immediately after WWII." See the attached PDF for details on the event.

The tech starts at 6 pm and the program starts at 6:30 pm. The program ends at 7:45 pm so everything will likely be finished by 8 pm.

Potential volunteers would need to be able to do breakout rooms and bring people back to the main room.

Please contact Jennifer Trautvette at jtrautvetter@jasc-chicago.org if you are interested.

Thank you!

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April Book Club - The City and Its Uncertain Walls

The JETAA Chicago and Japan America Society of Chicago (JASC) YPC Book Club continues with a meeting on Wednesday, April 30th!

Our book club highlights voices and stories with a solid connection to Japan. For our next meeting, we chose "The City and its Uncertain Walls" by Haruki Murakami. We begin with a nameless young couple: a boy and a girl, teenagers in love. One day, she disappears . . . and her absence haunts him for the rest of his life. Thus begins a search for this lost love that takes the man into middle age and on a journey between the real world and another world – a mysterious, perhaps imaginary, walled town where unicorns roam, where a Gatekeeper determines who can enter and who must remain behind, and where shadows become untethered from their selves.

Be sure to pick up a copy of the book and join us for an evening of casual discussion in a virtual space via Zoom! Registrations are limited, so grab a spot while you can!

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Questions? Contact Joe at networking@jetaachicago.com

This event is open to alumni, JASC YPC members and friends.