Kazuko MIYAKE

Completed from the Graduate school of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba. Ph.D. in Literature. Specializes in sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and Japanese language education. Developed an interest in the relationship between language and society, triggered by involvement in Japanese language education at a University in the United Kingdom.

Kouta NAGASHIMA

Graduated from the School of Commerce, Waseda University. D. from the Graduate School of Commerce, Waseda University. Master of Commerce. After working as a full-time lecturer at Tokyo International University, he assumed his current position. He is currently responsible for teaching Direct Marketing Theory and Special Topics in Service Marketing at the Faculty of Business Administration, Department of Marketing, Toyo University. His specialty is marketing, especially direct marketing.
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Hajime KIMURA

Graduated from Toyo University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Japanese Literature. Withdrew from Toyo University's Graduate School of Letters, Doctoral Program in Japanese Literature. D. (Literature) (Rikkyo University). After working as an assistant at the Faculty of Letters, Toyo University, and as a full-time lecturer at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Meikai University, he assumed his current position.

Kiyomi NAGASAKI

Part-time lecturer at Komazawa University and Tokyo Institute of Technology. After working for a steel manufacturer, she started teaching Japanese in 1992. After teaching at local Japanese language classes and schools(Japanese language school, vocational school, and university), she was posted to Kenya as a Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteer (JOCV) and experienced working in a cross-cultural environment.

Shinichiro ISHIKAWA

Graduated from the Faculty of Letters, Kobe University. Completed graduate studies at the Graduate School of Letters, Kobe University, and the Graduate School of Cultural Sciences, Okayama University. Holds a Ph.D. in Literature.
Specializes in corpus linguistics and applied linguistics. Served as a lecturer at the University of Shizuoka, Hiroshima International University, and associate professor at Kobe University. Has held current position since 2004.

Mitsuru SUGIYAMA

MA in Japanese Language Education from Waseda University. Worked as a Japanese language teacher for high schools in China and Japanese language schools in Japan.Since 2006 in charge of selling fire engines abroad for MORITA. Started work for AOTS in 2008. In charge of supporting job-hunting for foreign students, research on foreigners working in Japan, production of Japanese language materials for foreign trainees. Currently in charge of all activities related to Japanese language education at AOTS and promoting Japanese language programs to Japanese companies. 

Naoko KINOSHITA

Holds a Ph.D. from Waseda University's Graduate School of Applied Japanese Linguistics. Starts her career as a Japanese lecturer at the Busan University of Foreign Studies (Rep. of Korea) then lecturing full-time at Meikai University, before becoming an associate-professor at Waseda University's Center for Japanese Language. Works in the fields of phonetic education, second language acquisition and Japanese learning advising.

Kei ISHIGURO

Professor at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics,The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Professor of Collaborative Research at Hitotsubashi University. Graduated from the Faculty of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University. Completed the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University. Ph.D. in Literature.

Ryuta USHIKUBO/Xiuyin CHEN

Prof. Ushikubo graduated from Dokkyo University. He learned Japanese language education in the doctoral program at Waseda university and got a PhD (Japanese Language Education). He worked as a deputy chief instructor at an overseas educational institution (Waseda Education Thailand). After returning to Japan, he kept pursuing a career in language education, working as a research assistant at Waseda University and a lecturer at the Kwansei Gakuin University. He is currently teaching Japanese at the Center for Global Education and Exchange, Toyo University.

Toshimi Okumura

She holds a Master of International Communication and a National Qualified Career Consultant. After working for 11 years in the travel business at JTB Corporation, she was involved in Japanese language education. After working as a part-time lecturer at Naganuma School, she worked as a full-time lecturer at Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University in Turkey. As an instructor in charge of business Japanese, she was also involved in recruiting and training Japanese resources for Japanese companies in Turkey, and after she returned to Japan, she obtained a Career Development Advisor (CDA).