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Naoko Takemaru, Ph.D.


Office: FDH, 532
Phone: (702) 895-2602
Email: naoko.takemaru@unlv.edu

Areas of specialization:

  • Japanese Language Studies
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Gender Studies

Biography:

Naoko Takemaru is Assistant Professor of Japanese at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She offers upper-division Japanese courses including JPN 302: Third-year Japanese II, JPN 416: Business Japanese I, and JPN 425: Topics on Japanese Culture and Society.

She is currently revising a book manuscript on gender bias in the Japanese language. An earlier version of one chapter of the book manuscript appeared in "Japanese Women's Perceptions of Sexism in Language," Women and Language 28, no. 1 (2005): 39-48.