Sue A. Kawashima
	Office: Hunter West 1401 (212) 772-5064 skawashi@hunter.cuny.edu

The founder of the Japanese Program at Hunter, Professor Kawashima obtained her BA and MA at Columbia University and is a PhD candidate also at Columbia. Her area of concentration is Western and Japanese Art History. She has been teaching Japanese at Hunter College since 1988 to present. Her publications include A Dictionary of Japanese Particles published by Kodan-sha International and Oxford University Press (1999), which enjoys the reputation as one of the "Best Five" Japanese language textbooks in Japan; A Doctor in Your Pocket: Basic Medical Terms in English and Japanese co-authored by John J. Olichney, MD published by 3A Corporation (2000); Medical Communication in English and Japanese published by Nitto Sho-in (2002); and A Girl's Record, Around That Time-1935-8/15/1945 and 9/11/2001 published by Kodan-sha (2006), which is a World War II memoir based on her real-life experiences. She has given lectures on world peace at Lehman College in NY, Hiroshima, Tokyo, and various other cities throughout Japan. She has served as a Committee member to select candidates for the JET (Japanese Exchange & Teaching) Program, a Japanese-government sponsored program that sends English-speaking college graduates from throughout the world to teach English in Japan.

Maayan Barkan
	Office: Hunter West 1431 mbarkan@hunter.cuny.edu

Professor Barkan is currently pursuing her PhD Studies in Linguistics at the Graduate Center of CUNY. She received her MA in Japanese language education at Osaka University of Foreign Languages in Japan. She has received two full scholarships from the Japanese Ministry of Education, including a two-year program for her MA studies and a one-year program of Japanese language and culture studies at the same university. She passed the highest level of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test. She also passed the Japan Society's Japanese language teacher training program in New York City, where she has assisted and taught privately. In addition to teaching at Hunter College, she is currently teaching Japanese at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Kazue Kurahara
	Office: Hunter West 1431 kkuraha@hunter.cuny.edu

Professor Kurahara received her MA in Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language and TESOL from New York University. She holds teaching certificates in both Japanese and English as a Second Language from New York State. She currently teaches Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced courses at Hunter College. In addition, she teaches Japanese at Pace University and Language House LLC. Previously, she has taught at Horace Mann High School and the United Nations International School. She is well versed in the latest methodologies, and is constantly exploring various approaches to make her lessons clear, practical and fun. She has also worked for many years as part of an educational non-profit organization based in Japan.