"The Academic Life series" updates & bundles Education India Journal articles 1) "General Answers to Essential Questions," 2) "The Idea of the University," & 3) "Upholding Professional Standards and Ethics" into one PDF: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370403046
The "Bilingual Perspectives" presentation placed language teaching in a wider context, but a new upload is more focused on pedagogy: "How Bilingualism Informs Language Teaching": https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370230301
JAPANCASTING is among the "Best of Hubhopper Studio" (April 2023). Hubhopper is where our podcasts are produced in India by a colleague in Central Asia. The pedagogy of Japancasting, designated an “effective practice” to develop English (EFL) skills by the Online Learning Consortium, is explained in "Podcasting Reconsidered": https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366399918
See also two more photos from Sumiyoshi Grand Shrine in Ōsaka. I joked to the shrine maidens: 「両手に花！」 = a flower in each hand = someone who has two girlfriends.
Coincidentally, the haiku part of the haiga is similar to one of my published haiku in the Bilingual Haiku Scroll (和英俳句の掛け軸) - downloadable from http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/jq4s-hx59 - as follows:
霧笛呼び 汽笛のこだま 夏の夜
A distant foghorn blows
A midsummer night's call
A train whistle echoes
"Dual Nationality in Japan: Learning to Love Ambiguity" - new upload to Humanities Commons, which has a Mastodon instance.
Dual nationality is in the news again in Japan, where parents of happy-go-lucky haafu kids don't want the light to shine (haafu has a mostly positive meaning). Deeply in Japanese culture, custom is stronger than law, and so is unspoken consensus. Nearly everyone benefits from dual nationality. Though it is against the law, no country wants to lose productive young citizens by forcing them to choose. The issue has been smoked out by cases of famous people. In the 2020 Olympics, haafu Sky Brown - raised in Japan - competed for the UK. Naomi Osaka renounced her American citizenship to compete for Japan. She illustrates the strain of having to choose between national allegiances or parts of one's multicultural identity.
