Living & Working in Ishikawa, Japan
Winner of 2010 AJET Photo Contest, shot by Tim Harding (Ehime-ken)
This info comes to us via our stalwart AJET president, Sarah Kelly:
Every year, AJET encourages poets and photographers from the JET community to exercise their creative talents with out annual AJET Haiku and Photo Competitions.
Haiku Competition – Opens immediately. Closes 31st May.
Haikus can be in reference to life on JET or in the traditional style. We’re not fussy! Humorous Haikus are always welcome too.
The competition will be split into two categories, English and Japanese, so get creative with your Nihongo skills too.
Submissions should be:
There is a limit of two (2) haiku per entrant total. Current National AJET Council members are not eligible to enter.
Entries and inquiries should be sent to Avalyn at contest[AT]ajet[DOT]net.
Judging will be conducted by members of the AJET council. We are also hoping an outside Haiku poet will be able to judge this year.
Ownership/ Use Rights: Haiku authors retain the copyright of their haiku. By entering the contest authors agree to have their submitted haiku displayed on the AJET website (ajet.net), displayed on the National AJET fan page (facebook), and used in AJET publications without any fee or other compensation. Haiku will be credited to the author named in the entry form. Please make copies of poetry you want to keep on record. Entries will never be used by AJET in any manner for advertising or sale. In the even that ownership of any haiku is contested in any manner, AJET retains the discretion to disqualify that haiku and discontinue use.
Two first place winners, one in English and one Japanese will win a 3000 yen Amazon online gift voucher. Second place (in English and Japanese) will win a 1000 yen voucher.
Photo Competition – Open immediately. Closing date 31st May.
AJET wants to encourage all professional and budding photographers to send in their photos of Japan and life on JET.
We are interested in ‘human’ or humorous photos of your life on JET. Landscape photos are unlikely to get much attention.
Judging will be conducted by the AJET council. The winner on the competition will win a 3000 yen Amazon online gift voucher and will feature in the Tokyo Orientation Guide Book for the incoming JETs (often the front page).
Submissions should be:
There is a limit of two (2) images per entrant. Current National AJET Council members are not eligible to enter. In the case that you submit photographs including people’s faces, please receive permission from those featured before submission.
Entries and enquiries should be sent to Avalyn at contest[AT]ajet[DOT]net.
Ownership/Rights: Photographers retain the copyright of their photos. By entering the contest photographers agree to have their submitted photo displayed on the AJET website (ajet.net), displayed on the National AJET fan page (facebook), and used in AJET publications without any fee or other compensation. The photo will be credited to the photographer named in the entry form. Please make copies of the photo that you want to keep on record. Entries will never be used by AJET in any manner for advertising or sale. In the even that ownership of any photo is contested in any manner, AJET retains the discretion to disqualify that haiku and discontinue use.
Good luck!
Photo: Wide Island View
The folks behind the Hiroshima JET blog, Wide Island View, have decided to team up with the Ishikawa JET blog and do a little cross-prefectural promotion. As part of that, we’d like to help advertise the Winter Photo Contest — with prizes — over at the Wide Island View website.
Send in your best winter photo of Japan, and get a chance to win some fun prizes, sponsored by NetPrice Japan.
Your photo must:
Interested? You’re competing against fellow foreigners, not professionals here.
Submit your photos to: wivcontests (at) gmail (dot) com and include
Winners will get their choice of 3 prizes (see their site for pics!) and will have their photos displayed on the Englipedia website — whee, bragging rights! Other photo submissions may also featured in the Shashin Spotlight on the Wide Island View website.
The deadline is April 1st, 2010. Winners will be announced on April 5th on the Wide Island View website!
Check it out and help represent Ishikawa in a faraway prefecture!
Photo: Tanaka Juuyoh
Have some beautiful photos of Ishikawa lying around? Why not help out Ishikawa Prefecture and get your photos published in a calendar and pamphlets, helping to advertise our beautiful prefecture! In addition to getting to say you’ve been published, you will also receive tickets for two at an accommodation within Ishikawa.
The contest is a joint event put on by Ishikawa Prefecture and TripAdvisor (a travel website). You can submit your photos (and help out with voting for the winning entries) through the TripAdvisor website.
This contest is aimed at foreigners, so use your tourist’s eye to find what will appeal to other foreigners! They’re looking for photos of cityscapes, tourist sites, landscapes, performance arts, traditional culture, festivals, or anything with a seasonal flavor. You know what a great photo looks like.
There are 3 separate competitions taking place, and 3 winners will be selected from each competition (which makes a total of 9 winners, for those of you who have an aversion to math).
1st contest: August 1 – September 30th
2nd contest: October 1 – December 31st
3rd contest: January 1, 2010 – February 28, 2010
Check out the details at Hot Ishikawa! You can also find information about this competition in the Summer 2009 copy of Eye on Kanazawa (available for free in tourist spots around Kanazawa).
Good luck! Don’t let those photos go to waste.
(edited to add: I just submitted a few photos, and the process is a little confusing if you don’t know what to expect. You’ll need to sign up for a TripAdvisor account — it’s free — and then log in under that account before you try to submit the photos, otherwise your photos won’t be submitted properly. Once you’re logged in, do a search for “Ishikawa” and then choose the “Ishikawa Prefecture” option. On the right side you’ll see a little button that says “Add Photo”. Click on that and they’ll have instructions on how to submit a photo. After you submit your photos, you won’t be able to see them on the TripAdvisor site immediately. You’ll get an email saying that they’re being reviewed before they’re posted to the website. Good luck!)
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