Trustee meeting

 Susan Schmidt, who was appointed as a JICUF trustee in 2018, lived in Tokyo from 1972 to 1996 and worked as a staff editor of English-language books at the University of Tokyo Press. Currently residing in Boulder, Colorado, she is the Executive Director of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ), a professional organization of Japanese language educators in the United States. JICUF: Please tell us how you ended up working in Japan for so long. Susan: I went to Japan out of curiosity, not intending to stay more than a couple of years, but I had a background in editing, and once in Tokyo I discovered that there […]