ITO AND MESTER IN JAPAN

Junko Ito and Armin Mester spent their spring sabbatical and summer at NINJAL (National Institute of Japanese Linguistics) in Tokyo doing collaborative research with former LRC visitor Haruo Kubozono. They gave invited talks at NINJAL and at Keio University on their ongoing work on Japanese accent in OTWorkplace; and as organizers of FAJL 7 (Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 7), in Tokyo, they met up with many UCSC-related people who were presenting at the conference—Ph.D. alum Ryan Bennett (now Assistant Professor at Yale University), BA alum Sean Johnson, EAP alumni Shigeto Kawahara (UMass Ph.D., now Professor at Keio University), Atsushi Oho (Rutgers Ph.D. grad student), and Takashi Morita (MIT Ph.D. grad student), as well as former LRC visitor Shin Ishihara (Frankfurt U.). Go here for the picture.