About the Author

SUSUMU NAGARA received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Hiroshima University. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin and went on to teach Japanese and Linguistics at the University of Michigan and Middlebury College. He is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan and Chairman of the Department of Japanese Language and Studies in the Faculty of Comparative Culture at Sophia University in Tokyo.

Reviews

This text explains things in an unobtrusive and friendly manner, all the while leading the way gently from problem to problem. I think that my own early pains might have been lessened if I had had such a text. from the Foreword by Edward Seidensticker, former Professor Emeritus of Japanese, Columbia University