My recent publication

I was a keynote speaker at the international symposium of AJE: Association of Teachers of Japanese in Europe in 2019, held at the University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Keynote speech at the CAJLE 2018 Conference
Keynote speech at the CAJLE 2018 Conference: Held on August 21-22, 2018, at Huron University College, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.

Went to Vietnam and Thailand in March 2017.

Went to Thailand from Aug. 26th to Sep. 5th, 2016.

 A six-minute news report on the NHK TV program called “News Hot Kansai“ was broadcasted on December 8, 2016 and repeated on the following day.  The topic was about foreign-rooted children raised in Japan, losing their mother tongue while learning Japanese.  My brief comment was inserted in the program.

My comments were quoted in the newspaper article appeared on the Nikkei, on October 5, 2016, about some endeavours of supporting foreign rooted children studying in Japan in terms of bilingual education. (Japanese)

Invited to the conference and the workshop about Japanese Language Teaching for Children held by Hyogo Prefectural Board of Education, June 2016 (Japanese)

Attended the international symposium “The Linguistic Integration of Adult Migrants” held by Council of Europe Language Policy Division in Strasbourg, March 2016 (Japanese)

Thoughts about annual conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences about Autism Spectrum Disorder and Language Acquisition

Visits to Thailand twice this year; August and Dec. 2015 (Japanese)

A trip to Vietnam (Japanese)

About so-called security-related bills (Japanese)

A trip to Taiwan, Jan. 2015 (Japanese)

Lecture and discussion: To develop the languages skills of children -Teaching mother language -

A problem of individuality in foreign language education/ language education (Japanese)

Consideration for CLD children

Language policy (cross-cultural understanding from the perspective of Japanese language teaching) (Japanese)