Japanese tenured faculty, Dr. Yoshiko Saito-Abbott and Dr. Shigeko Sekine provide advising specific to Japanese and WLC programs. Japanese faculty members, listed below, provide one-on-one support, and the WLC Language Lab and department staff is readily available to you.
Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
Yoshiko Saito-Abbott, Ph.D., The Ohio State University Chair and Professor of Japanese, and Site Director for the Monterey Bay World Language Project (MBWLP) ~ joined CSUMB in 1996
Area of Expertise: Second and Foreign Language Education, Education, Educational Technology, Japanese Language and Culture
Shigeko Sekine, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Associate Professor of Japanese and Japanese Linguistics ~ joined CSUMB in 2005
Area of Expertise: Applied Linguistics, Japanese Language and Culture
Contingent Faculty
Tomoko Ogaki, M.A., Monterey Institute of International Studies
Lecturer in Japanese ~ joined CSUMB in 2010
Chikaomi Takahashi, Ph.D., University of Florida
Lecturer in Japanese and Japanese Culture ~ joined CSUMB in 2012