The Japanese Language Teachers Association will be holding the statewide Japanese Language Speech Contest on Monday 19th September at Immanuel College.  If you're interested in participating send your expression of interest by August 15th to Grant Nielsen at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .  This will be followed by the national finals.  For more information click here to see the flyer and click here to read the guidelines.