Biografía del autor Emiko Konomi received her PhD in Linguistics from Cornell and taught all levels of Japanese for many years, at Portland State University including business Japanese. She has extensive experience training instructors at Japanese teacher-training programs in the US. Her dedication to teaching earned her the 2011 and 2015 John Eliot Allen Outstanding Teaching Award. Her academic research focuses on Japanese linguistics and pedagogy. She is the author of Reading and Writing Hiragana and Reading and Writing Katakana.