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Yumi Tanaka
Yumi Tanaka is an associate professor at Shiga University, Japan. Her research interests include second language acquisition and motivation among young learners, with a focus on intercultural communication.
Christopher L. Starling
Christopher L. Starling is a retired academic, late of Kobe Shoin Women's University, Japan. He remains actively interested in his teaching area of intercultural communication and has also published on Japanese philosophy.