About SagaJET

This website is the online home of JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching) Programme participants located in Japan’s Saga Prefecture. All of the information on sagajet.com comes from past or present members of the Saga JET community who produced this site as both a meeting place for themselves and for anyone wanting to know more about life in Saga Prefecture.

SagaJET has been online since July 2004.

About Saga Prefecture

Saga is a small, mostly rural prefecture located on Kyushu, the second smallest of Japan’s four main islands. About 900,000 people (including about 100 JETs) live on Saga’s 2,400 square kilometers of land. That land is bordered on the north by the Genkai Sea, on the east by Fukuoka prefecture, on the south by the Ariake sea, and on the west by Nagasaki prefecture.

Most of Japan knows Saga as a fertile agricultural and fishing region, a center of Japanese porcelain production, and the subject of a quirky rock anthem by Hanawa, a Japanese comedian.

For more information on Saga, try visiting our Guide to Saga Prefecture, Saga Prefecture’s English page or Wikipedia’s Saga Prefecture page.