Shigeru Osuka, BA, MA, MEd, and EdD, is the director of the Japanese Program in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Seton Hall University. He has taught at the University of Hawaii, Western Washington University, and the Mid-Pacific Institute in Hawaii, and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo. He has served as a member of the Council of Conferences in the Association of Asian Studies and as president of the Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies. He has also been an examiner for the JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching program) and the Japanese International Baccalaureate program and an advanced placement reader in Japanese for ETS.