Submit Your Senpai Success Story!

Share your Japan story and how you utilize the language and/or cultural skills in your career.

Help Inspire Others

Show students, recent grads, JET alumni and others how having Japanese language and/or cultural skills is important to business.

“Senpai”: A Senpai for these stories is someone who utilizes Japanese language and/or cultural skills in a current or past career. A Senpai can be any age, as long as they can share a life lesson!

Check out the current Senpai Success Stories: Read them here

What To Write About

It’s neat to see what Senpai come up with on their own; that’s the best way to hear their voice and message without filtering! That said, please try to answer these questions somewhere throughout your story:

• How/why did you start learning Japanese?
• Write about your Japan and career connection. (i.e. describe how knowing the language and/or cultural skills is important, and/or explain whether you needed to be “fluent.”)
• Give 3-5 tips for someone starting out on their Japanese language/cultural career journey.

Format Requirements

Format: Please make your article easy to read by creating headlines in between paragraphs and adding bold text to certain phrases so they stand out.

Length: N/A

Deadline: Posts typically go out on Thursdays. Yours will be added to the publishing queue upon receipt.

Photo: Please send a quality image of yourself and/or of something Japan-related.

Social media: Please provide your social media handles on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter/X. If you do not want to be tagged, that’s OK, too.

NOTE: By submitting your article, you provide approval to publish your content on the IkigaiConnections.com website and its associated social media channels.

Interested?

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See the current Senpai Success Stories: Read them here