Curriculum vitae   

Place of Birth:	Otsu, Shiga Prefecture (Japan)
Current Position:	Invited Researcher, Professor Emerita, Osaka University
	Visiting Researcher, University of Cologne (2022-2023)
Degrees
Ed. D. (Doctor of Education)	Foreign Language Education, The University of Georgia, Athens, USA, 1994
M. Ed. (Master of Education)	TESOL, The University of Georgia, Athens, USA, 1990
B. Ed. (Bachelor of Education)	English Major, Japanese Minor, Kyoto University of Education, Japan, 1982
Employment History
01/2022-	Visiting Researcher, East Asian Seminar, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cologne, Germany (Financially supported by Heinrich Hertz Foundation)
04/2021-present	Professor Emerita, Invited Researcher, Studies of Japanese Language and Culture, Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University, Japan
2017-2021	Professor, Head, Studies of Japanese Language and Culture, Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University, Japan
2012-2016	Professor, Studies of Japanese Language and Culture, Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University, Japan
2009-2012	Professor, Research Institute of World Languages, Osaka University, Japan
2007-2009	Associate Professor, Research Institute of World Languages, Osaka University, Japan
	(Osaka University of Foreign Studies merged to Osaka University in October 2007.)
2005	Visiting Researcher, Landesspracheninstitut Nordrhein-Westfalen, Japonicum, Bochum, Germany
2001-2002	Visiting Researcher, Japan Studies, Eberhardt-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany
1995-2007	Associate Professor, Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Japan
1985-1988	Instructor, Japanese Department, Bunka Institute of Language, Tokyo, Japan
Tertiary Education
1990-1994	Doctor Program, Department of Language Education, College of Education, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA. (Ed.D.)
1988-1990	Master Program, Department of Language Education, College of Education, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA (M.Ed.)
1984-1985	Certificate Intensive Program of Teaching Japanese as a Foreign/ Second Language, The National Language Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan [国立国語研究所 currently called National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics]
1982-1983	Scholarship Recipient of Rotary International Foundation, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada
1978-1982	Undergraduate Program with English Major and Japanese Minor, Kyoto University of Education, Japan (B.Ed.) [京都教育大学]
Other Certificates and Qualifications
1990	Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI)-Certified Tester in Japanese, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
1986	Japanese Language Teaching Competency Test (Teaching Certificate for Teaching of Japanese as a Foreign/Second Language)
1982	Teaching Certificate in English and Japanese for Japanese Secondary Schools
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS AUTHORED
2022	Emergent Bilinguals and Educational Challenges at Public Schools in Japan: A longitudinal study of first- and second-generation Chinese children’s bilingual proficiency, Osaka University Press. Editor. Co-authored with K. Nakajima, C. Sakurai, C. Sun, Wuriga and T. Yu. <Publishing Grant: JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 21HP5044 (2021)>  [English]
2021	Foreign Workers and Japanese Language Education: Focusing on Technical Interns, Osaka University Press. Editor. <2020 Publishing Grant under the auspice of Prof. Tadamitsu Kishimoto, Osaka University> [Japanese]
2019	Is Teaching Japanese without Losing One’s Mother Tongue Possible? -Bilingual Proficiency among Second Generation Immigrant Children, Osaka University Press. Editor. <Publishing Grant: JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP18HP5254 (2018)> (ISBN: 9784872596175) [Japanese]
Dissertation
1998	Learner Difference and Japanese Language Education: A Study of Field Dependence/Independence Cognitive Styles and Japanese Language Learning. Academic Research Series 18, Osaka University of Foreign Studies. [Japanese/English]