Director General

The National Language Research Institute

3-9-14 Nishigaoka
Kita-ku, Tokyo 115

TEL: (03) 3900-3111
FAX: (03) 3906-3530

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English (with interpreter), Japanese

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• EDUCATION
  foreign language instruction in Japan
• LANGUAGE
  discourse analysis; language learning; language testing and evaluation; pragmatics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Section Head, Director, Center for Teaching of Japanese as a Second Language, The National Language Research Institute, 1974-79, 1988-90; Professor, Nagoya University, 1979-88; Director, Japanese Language Teaching, Stanford Center in Tokyo, 1963-73; Assistant, Lecturer, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Chiba University, 1960-63; Assistant, Department of Languages, International Christian University, 1956-60.

IN US: repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

Natural Japanese (Sony Press, 1986); Japanese: The Spoken Language in Japanese Life (Japan Times Press, 1981); Japanese Phonetics (co-author) (Kuroshio Press, 1978); An Introduction to Modern Japanese (co-author) (Kuroshio Press, 1977).