Japan Association of Greater Pittsburgh 1st Online Exchange Meeting, September 18.

The Japan Association of Greater Pittsburgh (JAGP) is hosting its 1st Online Exchange Meeting, in lieu of the annual in-person fall picnic, on September 18.

イン交流会のお知らせ
ピッツバーグ日本協会　第1回オンライン交流会のお知らせ

事務の伊藤です。雨で蒸し暑い日が続きますが、皆様いかがお過ごしでしょうか。
さて、毎年9月に開催しておりましたピクニックですが、新型コロナウイルスの感染が再度拡大している状況を鑑み、開催を見送らせていただくこととなりました。楽しみにしていらっしゃった方々には心苦しい限りですが、ご理解いただけますと幸いです。

その代わりとして、オンラインでの交流会を開催したいと思います。新たな出会いや情報交換の場にしたいと考えておりますので、ぜひお気軽にご参加ください。

なお、参加人数の把握のため、参加をご希望の方は【9月11日(土)】までに以下のオンラインフォームからご連絡くださいませ。
https://forms.gle/U2YYAmkwNxLwi5q26

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It is with regret that we’ve made the decision to cancel our JAGP Fall Picnic 2021 in light of the developing COVID-19 situation.
We are disappointed to make this announcement but we believe we have a duty to care for our members and the general public.

Instead of that, JAGP board members have planned our first ‘online exchange meeting’. We hope it will be a place for new encounters and information exchange. Please actively participate.

If you wish to participate, please fill out the form shown below.
https://forms.gle/U2YYAmkwNxLwi5q26

The meeting is open to members and runs from 7:00 to 9:00 pm; it will of course take place in Japanese. Those interested in becoming JAGP members may do so online.

Daehwa Korean Conversation Club and the Korean Student Association at the University of Pittsburgh are hosting a Chuseok celebration at Pitt on September 19. It is open to all interested Pitt studets who are compliant with the university's COVID-19 safety regulations. Those interested should reach out to Daehwa and the KSA to learn more.

Ross Park Mall's Tiffany & Co. hiring Mandarin-speaking seasonal help.

The Tiffany's store in Ross Park Mall is hiring Seasonal Ambassadors, with a preference for Mandarin, Japanese, or Spanish proficiency.

Our Seasonal Ambassadors will:

• Be an effective brand ambassador, ensuring clients are warmly welcomed, assisted accordingly and have a memorable experience commensurate with the Tiffany brand.
• Spending most of the day on your feet, enhance the clients experience with hospitality and store amenities to create personalized experiences with the goal of positively impacting both sales and service. 
• Assist with engraving station where applicable.
• Accurately manage client waiting list if applicable.
• Ensure hospitality area is fully stocked, orderly and clean. 
• Communicate with management any potential service issues with waiting clients.
• Assist team members with boxing and wrapping items, replenishing POS and gifting supplies, keeping all POS stations and sales floor areas neat and organized and performing all POS functions after a client’s purchase decision is finalized.
•  Assist operations team with operational policies and procedures and after sales servicing to ensure store operations run effectively.
• Assist with inventory and special projects as needed.

Fantuan / Just Order Enterprises Corp. (饭团) hiring Mandarin-speaking Operations Manager (送餐部经理).

Just Order Enterprises (also known as Fantuan), is a delivery service catering to Asian restaurants and groceries that expanded to Pittsburgh last summer, is still hiring a Mandarin-speaking Operations Manager.

Fantuan was founded in Vancouver, Canada in 2014. With a mission of “life made easier,” the company is a one-stop platform providing food delivery (Fantuan Delivery), reviews (Fantuan Reviews), an errand service (Fantuan Rush), e-commerce and marketing services. Fantuan is one of the top Asian life-services platforms in North America, currently operating across Vancouver, Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary, Montreal, Seattle, Los Angeles, New York, and other metropolitan areas in Canada and the US.

For more positions, please click https://fantuan.ca/en/jobs/

Responsibilities

· Assist recruitment, training, performance appraisal of the delivery team

· Analyze and statistic data to improve the efficiency of the delivery team and user experience

· Dealing with unexpected situations during daily operations

· Complete tasks assigned by other supervisors

Requirements:

· Good at innovation and manage team

· Strong communication, coordination and organizational skills

· Strong executive and promotion ability

· Responsible and purposeful, able to suffer from pressure and challenges

饭团是一家北美互联网生活服务公司,主要业务包括饭团外卖、饭团点评、饭团跑腿,结合中式优质服务与北美先进大数据技术,以互联网思维推动生活服务行业变革。 目前,饭团已覆盖温哥华、多伦多、卡尔加里、蒙特利尔,西雅图,洛杉矶,纽约等加拿大及美国主要城市,为海外华人乃至所有海外消费者提供更加便捷、高效、智能的生活服务

98 K Hamburger now open in Squirrel Hill.

98 K Hamburger opened in Squirrel Hill over the weekend. The Chinese-owned restaurant is a new location of a New York-based fast food chain. It's located at 5867 Forbes Ave. (map), and is running some soft opening specials through the 14th.

1995 film Ghost in the Shell (攻殻機動隊) in Pittsburgh as part of IMAX 2D re-release, from September 16.

The 1995 Japanese film Ghost in the Shell (攻殻機動隊) will play in Pittsburgh from September 16 as part of an IMAX 2D re-release. A 2014 Telegraph review provides a summary:

Oshii’s film, which was adapted from a manga series by Masamune Shirow, saw everything coming. In its near-future world, countries are like corporations under siege, whose protective walls are slowly being washed away by an ocean of communal data. Hackers are treated like terrorists, while programmers’ movements are restricted as part of a global arms embargo.

Helping to keep the uneasy peace is Section 9, a team of government agents who include Motoko Kusanagi: a cyborg who can plug herself into the data-sea via four jack ports in the nape of her neck.

. . .

We follow Kusanagi on her hunt for The Puppet Master, a hacker who can access the ‘ghosts’, or souls, of ordinary citizens and carry out cyber-crimes by proxy. Now entirely synthetic, her original human body replaced and improved on piece by piece, Kusanagi is unsure whether her ghost still lingers in her man-made form[.]

The film is in Japanese with English subtitles. It plays locally at the AMC Loews Waterfront through (at least) September 23, and tickets are available online.

"Jazz Poetry Month: Bad Activist," September 20 at Alphabet City.

The City of Asylum will host Mai Khoi and Bad Activist on September 20 as part of its Jazz Poetry Month.

Bad Activist is an autobiographical performance piece, combining storytelling with state-of-the-art music performance. The narrative charts the extraordinary trajectory of Mai Khoi’s life—from renowned to Vietnamese pop star to dissident activist, fighting for artistic freedom in Vietnam and pitting herself against the strong arm of the communist government. Within this crucible of political titans, international powers, and constant surveillance and threat, Khoi develops a personal and unique art form. Her new sound is rooted in forgotten Vietnamese musical traditions fused with jazz and ripe with political song lyrics. Bad Activist explores both the actual historic events of the artist’s life, as well as the subconscious dream worlds that have fueled her work.

Unable to safely live and work in Vietnam, Mai Khoi is currently an Artist Protection Fund Fellow at City of Asylum and the University of Pittsburgh. This performance of Bad Activist features collaborators from the University of Pittsburgh’s PhD in jazz, and all new arrangements for larger bands.

The event runs from 7:00 to 9:00 pm and will be held both in person and online. Please visit the website for ticket information and for safety protocols. Alphabet City is located at 40 W. North Ave. on the North Side (map).

One Piece Film: Strong World (ワンピース フィルム ストロングワールド) in Pittsburgh, November 7 and 9.

The 2009 film One Piece Film: Strong World (ワンピース　フィルム　ストロングワールド) will play in Pittsburgh on November 7 and 9 as part of a Fathom Events re-release. The Anime News Network has a synopsis:

20 years after his escape from Impel Down, the legendary pirate Shiki "the Golden Lion" reappears causing massive upheaval to the Marines. During his long seclusion, he was able to come up with a scheme to bring the World Government to its knees. On his way to execute the plan, Shiki crosses paths with the Straw Hat Pirates and becomes so impressed with Nami's knowledge of meteorology that he abducts her to forcedly enlist her into his crew. Luffy and the gang end up on a strange land populated with monstrous beasts as they desperately search for Shiki and Nami.

It is scheduled so far to play at the AMC Loews Waterfront, though more theaters will likely be announced later.

Panda Supermarket hiring.

Squirrel Hill's Panda Supermarket is hiring all shifts for its new location:



Actually, most of your favorite stores and restaurants are probably hiring these days, so if you are interested in full- or part-time work, contact a manager at wherever you like to shop or dine.

Food delivery service Hungry Panda hiring Mandarin-speaking Business Development Specialist for Pittsburgh area.

Hungry Panda is hiring a Mandarin-speaking Business Development Specialist for the Pittsburgh area. As PennsylvAsia noted last summer, more Chinese delivery options, like Fantuan, Chowbus, and Hungry Panda are making their way to Pittsburgh.