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name: Akira Miura
about: Akira Miura is emeritus professor of Japanese at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he taught all levels of Japanese as well as Japanese pedagogy for more than thirty years. A native of Tokyo and a graduate of the University of Tokyo, he received his Ed.D. from Columbia University. He is also the author of English Loanwords in Japanese, An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese, Problematic English Words Written in Katakana, Japanese Cultural Episodes for Speed Reading, and Let's Get to Know Japan! His translations include Sakae Tsuboi’s Twenty-four Eyes and Takeo Suzuki’s Words in Context. Akira Miura is emeritus professor of Japanese at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he taught all levels of Japanese as well as Japanese pedagogy for more than thirty years. A native of Tokyo and a graduate of the University of Tokyo, he received his Ed.D. from Columbia University. He is also the author of English Loanwords in Japanese, An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese, Problematic English Words Written in Katakana, Japanese Cultural Episodes for Speed Reading, and Let's Get to Know Japan! His translations include Sakae Tsuboi’s Twenty-four Eyes and Takeo Suzuki’s Words in Context. ...more