Akira Miura

Akira Miura is an associate professor of Japanese at the University of Wisconsin. A native of Tokyo and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he has been living in the United States for many years. He received his Ed.D. from Columbia University. He is the author of Amerika no Seikatsu to Kotoba and translated Sakae Tsuboi's Twenty-four Eyes and Takao Suzuki's Japanese and the Japanese. His long experiences in both Japan and the United States and his interest in languages make him eminently qualified to do research on English words that have been incorporated into Japanese.