Dr.Andreas Riessland, Associate Professor of Nanzan University

'Against the Grain – Instances of Non-conformism in Present-day Japan'

Dr. Seiichi Makino, Professor of Princeton University

"Japanese Notion of Self': Socio/Cognitive Linguistic Evidence"

Dr. Wesley M. Jacobsen, Professor of Harvard University

'Understanding Japanese through its Structure: How Linguistics Can Contribute to Language Learning'