Yoshiyuki SUGANO

Mr. Sugano graduated from Hosei University, faculty of Business Administration in 1987. He has consistently been engaged in the human resource business, including new graduates, mid-career recruits, and temporary employment. His team opened several job websites for doctors, pharmacists , starting with "Nikkei Career Net",  operated by Nikkei Inc. Since 2013, with the help of Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc., he has held the "NIKKEI ASIAN RECRUITING FORUM IN TOKYO", which connects students who are studying at major universities in Asian countries with global companies in Japan.

Naoko MAEDA

Graduated from the Faculty of Letters (Linguistics), the University of Tokyo.
Completed a master’s program at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and a doctoral program at Osaka University (Modern Japanese Linguistics). Holds a Ph.D. in Literature.
After working at the University of Tokyo’s International Student Center, appointed Associate Professor at Gakushuin University in April 2002, and promoted to Professor in April 2008.

Xiuyin CHEN

Graduate of the Japanese Language Program at the College of Foreign Languages of the Ocean University of China. Completed the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University.Assistant at the University of Hamburg (Germany) and Kobe University. Part-time and full-time Lecturer at Kobe Design University and Japan University of Economics. Currently a Lecturer at Toyo University. Doctor Chen's research covers modern Japanese grammar, Japanese language education, Japanese linguistics, as well as corpus linguistics.

Yusuke TANAKA

Graduated from the College of Japanese Language and Culture, School of Humanities and Culture, University of Tsukuba. Completed the doctoral program in Japanese Language Education at the Graduate School of Japanese Applied Linguistics, Waseda University. Ph.D. in Japanese Language Education.

Keiko HORII

After graduating from the AGU Department of English, worked at the Tokyo branch of Deutsche Bank and the Iraqi branch of a Japanese company in Basra before becoming involved in Japanese language education. Ph.D. (Academic).
Served as a professor, dean of the Graduate School of Language and Culture Studies, and dean of the Department of Japanese Communication at Musashino University before assuming the current position.