The JET ProgrammeIn the 1990s, as numerous Many foreign tourists visit the hot-spring resort town of Shuzenji in Izu Peninsula, Shizuoka. There is a pleasant walking course through a bamboo grove along the river.Pamela PalmaBorn in Surigao del Sur, Philippines, Palma majored in business management at the Ateneo de Manila University. She worked at the Embassy of the United States of America in the Philippines, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank, and University of Asia and the Pacific in the Philippines. She has worked as a CIR since 2015.GRASSROOTS AMBASSADOR Pamela Palma uses her career experienceto support visitors and residents in Shizuoka, a prefecture located at the base of Mt. Fuji, long revered as symbol of material and spiritual richnessJAPANREPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINESJapanese corporations established the Philippines, themselves university student Pamela Palma thought that learning Japanese would prove useful in the future. After studying the Japanese language at university, she continued her Japanese language training at a Japanese language school after graduation. Her first visit to Japan was in 1996. “Japan was so clean and the trains were so punctual! The streets hardly had any litter and the trains were rarely even a minute late,” she recalls. After that, she worked at the Embassy of the United States of America in the Philippines and at a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank where she used her Japanese skills to work with Japanese clients. “When I was 41 years old, I applied for the JET Programme, as I thought it would suit my growing passion for Japan,” she explains. The JET Programme assigned Palma to the Shizuoka prefectural government, a place she knew little about at the time. “To me, Shizuoka was just a place you passed through on the shinkansen when travelling between Tokyo and Kyoto. But after four years of living here, I have in 28For an Enjoyable Stayin Shizuoka
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