CV

EDUCATION

    • 2009 Graduate School of Foreign Studies, Doctoral Program in Linguistics, Sophia University, Ph.D. in Linguistics (Ph.D. dissertation adviser:Kensaku Yoshida)

    • 2007 Summer Institute of LSA, Stanford University

    • 2005 Graduate School of Foreign Studies, Master's Program in Linguistics, Sophia University, M.A. in Linguistics (M.A. thesis adviser:Naoki Fukui)

    • 2002 Department of German Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Dokkyo University, B.A. in Foreign Studies (B.A. thesis adviser:Götz Wienold)

PROFFESIONAL EXPERIENCE

April 2021 –

    • Collaborative Researcher, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

April 2021 –

    • Professor, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University

September 2016 –

    • Collaborative Researcher, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

April 2015 –

    • Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University

September 2013 – March 2015

    • Associate Professor, Department of Aesthetic Design, Okayama Prefectural University

July 2013 –

    • Visiting scholar, Keio Institute of Language and Cultural Studies

April 2013 –

    • Visiting scholar, Sophia Linguistic Institute for International Communication

April 2013 – March 2014

    • Part-time lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

April 2013 – August 2013

    • Part-time lecturer, Department of Communication and Culture, Faculty of Language and Literature, Otsuma Women’s University

March 2013 – April 2013

    • Visiting Scholar. Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University

June 2012 – September 2012

    • Domestic Guest Researcher, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University

April 2011 – March 2013

    • Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Linguistic Sciences, Division of Arts and Sciences, International Christian University

July 2010 – March 2011

    • Visiting fellow, Graduate School of Foreign Studies, Sophia University

September 2010 – March 2011

    • Part-time lecturer, Division of Arts and Sciences, Faculty of Liberal Arts, International Christian University

April 2008 – March 2012

    • Part-time lecturer, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Faculty of International Liberal Arts, Dokkyo University

April 2006 – March 2009

    • Part-time Research Associate, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sophia University, (working for Kagaku gijutsu eigo [English for Science and Engineering]

April 2006 – March 2008

    • Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University

October 2005 – March 2008

    • Part-time Researcher, Department of Language Research, National Institute for Japanese Language

[October 2005 – March 2007]

Research on self-repairs in contemporary spontaneous Japanese, (Grant-in-Aid Scientific Research #17720098, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)

[April 2007 – March 2008]

Survey on honorifics in Okazaki dialect

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES:

Membership:

Linguistic Society of Japan

The Phonological Society of Japan

Reviewing Experience:

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (Springer)

Language in Society (Cambridge University Press)

Language Sciences (Elsevier)

Glossa (Ubiquity Press)

Linguistics Vanguard (De Gruyter)

Lingua (Elsevier)

Journal of Japanese Linguistics (Institute for Japanese Studies, Ohio State University)

Open Linguistics (Walter deGruyter)

Open Journal of Modern Linguistics (Scientific Research)

Phonological Studies (The Phonological Society of Japan)

The Japanese Journal of Language in Society (The Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences)

Journal of The Society of English Studies (The Society of English Studies)

Sophia Linguistica (Sophia Linguistic Institute for International Communication)


Speech Prosody 2020

LabPhon 14, 17

The 24th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference

The 5th, 7th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Japanese (native), English (fluent), German (excellent, my B.A. thesis is written in German), and Spanish (good)