Haruka SAKAUE

Currently working as an office manager of scholarship project office in Kyrgyz Republic. " Human Resource Development Scholarship Project" is financed by Japanese Grant Aid, ODA. We select scholars from government officials of Kyrgyz Republic and dispatch them to Japanese universities in order to obtain Master's degree.

Job descriptions in detail are as follows;

• Coordination of a scholarship project by Japanese Grant Aid as a representative of the office in Kyrgyz Republic
• Coordination of scholars' selection procedures; making application tools (online application form, application guideline, poster, flyer etc.), conducting information sessions of the scholarship, providing English and Mathematics training for applicants, scheduling interviews by Japanese university professors and government staffs, application to universities, providing orientations for scholars, support of scholars' life in Japan etc.
• Follow-up of scholars after completion of their study in Japan; organizing alumni association, coordination of regular seminars
• Schedule arrangement of meetings with related organizations (Embassy of Japan, JICA, government organizations of Kyrgyz Republic etc.)
• Invitation of university faculty members for interviews; planning itinerary, communication with professors and administrative staffs
• Personnel management in the office; hiring local staffs, making and concluding employment agreement, communication with lawyer on legal check of the employment agreement, doing payroll, salary payment, management of employees' working hours
• Office management; negotiation and conclusion of rent agreement, payment of the office rent
• Financial management; money transfer procedure, making a monthly accounting report, making a yearly budget

• Purchase sales; purchasing used car from customers and car dealers
• Participation in a used car auction; writing exhibit sheets, bidding duties in auction, inspection of car that made a successful bid
• Car exporting procedure

Twilight Express is a sleeper train which operated from Osaka station to Sapporo station in Hokkaido. Basically the work duration on the train was 2 nights and 3 days or 3 nights and 4 days. On other work days that I was not on the train, I had worked a office in Osaka.

Job descriptions are as follows;

• Restaurant service in the diner car; serving meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner, pub)
• Inventory control of goods and beverages
• Room service; taking meals, beverages, newspapers and magazines
• In-cabin sales; selling original goods
• Safety management; passengers' safety check (getting on and off), emergency response

( At the office, other than working on the train)

• Inventory control and order
• Shipping operations of goods
• Customer service