[PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE]

 
Professor, English Education (teaching and research)
             Nihon University, College of Industrial Technology, 2012-2019

Associate Professor, English Education (teaching and research)
             Nihon University, College of Industrial Technology, 2004-2012

Assistant Professor, English Education (teaching and research)
             Nihon University, College of Industrial Technology, 2001-2004
             Chiba University, Department of Education  1994-95

Adjunct Faculty, Corpus Linguistics
             Meikai University School of Applied Linguistics, 2008-2010

Adjunct Faculty, Teaching English (Oral English, Reading, CALL, Media English, Public Speaking, Journal Writing)
             Nihon University  2019 -
             Nihon University  2000 - 2001
             Chiba University  1992-94  1999 -2003
             Tokyo University of Information and Science  1993-94
             Chiba University of Commerce  1992-94
             Wayo Women’s Junior College  1992-94
             Iryo Gijutsu Daigakko (School for medical technicians)  1992-94
             Yogo Kyouyu Yoseijo (Institute for training school nurse)  1991-93

Junior High School English Teacher
             Kogane-Minami Junior High School  1980-82
             Kaikake Junior High School  1978-80

[EDUCATION]

 Manhattanville College (New York), M.P.S.(Master of Professional Studies) in TESL (1999)
 Chiba University, Ph.D. in Language and Speech Systems (1991)
 Chiba University, M.A. in English Education (1987)
 Osaka City University, B.A. in English Language and Litrerature (1978)

[CERTIFICATIONS]

 First-class licenses for teaching English in junior & senior high schools (Japan)

[MEMBERSHIPS]

TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Language)
JACET (Japan Association of College English Teachers),
JASEUS (The Japan Society of English Usage and Style)
KATE (Kanto-Koshinetsu Association of Teachers of English)
JAECS (Japan Association for English Corpus Studies)
LET (The Japan Association for Language Education and Technology)
JALT (The Japan Association for Language Teaching)

[PUBLICATIONS]

210 working papers in Language and Speech Science

Recipient of JACET Award in 1996

Final Project with Distinction at Manhattanville College in 1999

Finalists (Selected Papers from the 14th Int'l Symposium on English Teaching, English Teachers' Association/ROC 2005)

Finalists (Selected Papers from the 13th NLP 2007)

Recipient of JAECS Award in 2008 (Japan Association for English Corpus Studies)

Recipient of the Best Teacher Award in 2016 (College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University.)

Recipient of the Best Teacher Award in 2017 (College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University.)

Recipient of the Best Teacher Award in 2018 (College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University.)

[PERSONAL]

 Married, one granddaughter.

 Interests: traveling, gardening, and climbing 100 most celebrated mountains in Japan. (I climbed 81 mountains as of 1 December 2018.)

 Travel: England, France, Italy, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Czeck, Poland, Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia, Korea, Taiwan, China,
           Cambodia, New Zealand, Canada and 47 states in the U.S.