Kazuyuki NOMURA

Profile Information

Affiliation

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Global and Transdisciplinary Studies, Chiba University

Degree

Doctor of Education(Dec, 2016, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

MA in Communication Studies(Mar, 2004, The University of Tokyo)

BA in Japanese(Mar, 2001, The University of Tokyo)

Contact information

kazuchiba-u.jp

Researcher number

90910216

ORCID iD

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0604-4392

J-GLOBAL ID

202101003458513824

researchmap Member ID

R000019685

External link

https://www.las.chiba-u.jp/teachers/post_48.html

Research Interests

• Educational Research
• Teaching Japanese as a Second/Foreign Language
• Intercultural Understanding
• Applied Linguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• Multilingualism
• Second Language acquisition
• Language Socialization
• Motivation
• Learner
• Teacher
• Curriculum Studies
• Teaching
• Power
• Belonging
• Native speaker
• Education policy
• Language policy
• Qualitative Research
• Ethnography

Research Areas

• Humanities & social sciences / Japanese language education /
• Humanities & social sciences / Education - general / Intercultural Understanding
• Humanities & social sciences / Education - general / Curriculum Studies

Research History

• Oct, 2025 - Present

  Associate Professor, Graduate School of Global and Transdisciplinary Studies, Chiba University
• Apr, 2025 - Present

  Part-Time Lecturer, Scholarship School (Interpreter Training), Nichibei Kaiwa Gakuin
• Apr, 2021 - Sep, 2025

  Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Global and Transdisciplinary Studies, Chiba University
• Jan, 2022 - Dec, 2024

  Collaborative Researcher, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
• Apr, 2024 - Sep, 2024

  Part-Time Lecturer, Faculty of International Studies, Kyoritsu Women's University
• Aug, 2020 - Sep, 2021

  Part-Time Lecturer, Tokyo Metropolitan University
• Sep, 2010 - Aug, 2021

  Part-Time Lecturer (Adjunct Assistant Professor), Department of Japanese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Aug, 2010 - Mar, 2021

  Principal, Todaimae Language Centre (a school registered with the Education Bureau of Hong Kong)
• May, 2019 - Jun, 2019

  Visiting Scholar, Research Institute for Oriental Cultures, Gakushuin University
• Sep, 2013 - Dec, 2018

  Guest Lecturer, Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong (The Hong Kong Institute of Education)
• Oct, 2009 - Aug, 2010

  Research Assistant, Department of Japanese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Education

• Aug, 2012 - Dec, 2016

  Department of Curriculum and Instruction, School of Education (Graduate School), The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Sep, 2008 - Sep, 2009

  Advanced Students (Scholarshiped by the Government of China), Beijing Language and Culture University
• Apr, 2001 - Mar, 2004

  Department of Studies on Contemporary Society and Culture (Communication Studies), Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo
• Apr, 1999 - Mar, 2001

  Department of Japanese Linguistics and Literature (Japanese Linguistics Major), Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo
• Apr, 1997 - Mar, 1999

  Natural Sciences II (Pre-Major), The University of Tokyo

Awards

• May, 2019

  Best Paper Award 2018, Japanese as "Safe Houses": An Ethnography of Adolescent Learners of Japanese in Hong Kong, The Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language

  Kazuyuki NOMURA, Takako MOCHIZUKI
• Nov, 2016

  Professor Wong Hin-wah Scholarship 2015/16 (Awarded for the Best Academic Performance), The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  Kazuyuki NOMURA
• Jun, 2014

  Richard Pemberton Award for Postgraduate Student Travel, Hong Kong Association for Applied Linguistics

  Kazuyuki NOMURA

Papers

• Helping Japanese Language Supporters Grow Through Reciprocal Learning: Towards a Redefinition of Japanese Language Support

  Kazuyuki NOMURA, Aya YOSHINO, Shoko LEE-HOMMA, Kanako NISHIZUMI

  Journal of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Chiba University, 9 275-294, Mar 31, 2025 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
• 31

  Loving from afar: Japanese language learners and their imagined target language communities in contemporary Hong Kong

  Kazuyuki NOMURA

  International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2025(293) 35-59, Mar 7, 2025 Peer-reviewed
• 37

  Exploring the emic understanding of ‘critical thinking’ in Japanese education: An analysis of teachers’ voices

  Kazuyuki NOMURA

  Educational Philosophy and Theory, 55(13) 1501-1512, Mar 31, 2023 Peer-reviewed
• 83

  The Hidden Curriculum of Hong Kong's Japanese Language Education: An Observation of Teacher-Learner Interactions

  Kazuyuki NOMURA

  Nihongo Kyoiku (Journal of Japanese Language Teaching), 182 49-65, Aug 25, 2022 Peer-reviewed
• Students’ Perception of Online Japanese Language Learning in 2021 : Toward Better Post-COVID19 Teaching

  Kazuyuki NOMURA, Aya YOSHINO, Kanako NISHIZUMI, Naoko SATO

  Journal of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Chiba University, 6 171-183, Mar 3, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead author
• 141

  Understanding the motivations of fluent speakers in beginner-level foreign language classrooms

  Kazuyuki NOMURA, Shin KATAOKA, Takako MOCHIZUKI

  Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 40(7) 618-632, Feb 6, 2019 Peer-reviewedInvitedLead authorCorresponding author
• 101

  Long-term motivations for L2 learning: A biographical study from a situated learning perspective

  Kazuyuki NOMURA, Rui YUAN

  Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 40(2) 164-178, Jul 11, 2018 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
• 114

  Japanese as a "Safe House": An Ethnography of Adolescent Learners of Japanese in Hong Kong

  Kazuyuki NOMURA, Takako MOCHIZUKU

  Nihongo Kyoiku (Journal of Japanese Language Teaching), 169 1-15, Apr 25, 2018 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
• Native-speakerism perceived by "non-native-speaking" teachers of Japanese in Hong Kong

  Kazuyuki NOMURA, Takako MOCHIZUKI

  Towards Post-Native-Speakerism, Jan, 2018 Peer-reviewedInvitedLead authorCorresponding author
• 71

  Project-based learning in post-WWII Japanese school curriculum: an analysis via curriculum orientations

  Kazuyuki NOMURA

  The Curriculum Journal, 28(4) 626-641, Oct 2, 2017 Peer-reviewed
• Japanese language in the wake of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement: Is It a form of soft power?

  Kazuyuki NOMURA, Takako MOCHIZUKI

  Japanese Language and Soft Power in Asia, 159-178, May 30, 2017 Peer-reviewedInvitedLead authorCorresponding author
• 74

  A sociocultural analysis of motivation for learning the Japanese language in contemporary Hong Kong

  Kazuyuki NOMURA

  Sep, 2016 Peer-reviewed
• A Study on Young Learners of Japanese in Hong Kong

  KIYAMA Tomoko, NOMURA Kazuyuki, MOCHIZUKI Takako

  (8) 53-69, Mar 1, 2012 Peer-reviewed

Misc.

• The integration of immigrant-origin youth in Japan: Theoretical insights from narratives on school experiences, by Giulia Dugar, Routledge, 2026, 162 pp., 124ドル.00 (hardback)

  Kazuyuki Nomura

  Asian Studies Review, 1-2, Jul 20, 2026 Peer-reviewed
• Medium of instruction and rapport building in Hong Kong Japanese classrooms: An Analysis of positionalities

  Kazuyuki Nomura

  210-214, Nov, 2024
• 1

  Reforming lesson study in Japan: theories of action for Schools as Learning Communities, by Yuta Suzuki, Routledge, 2022, 210 pp., 38ドル.99 (paperback)

  Kazuyuki Nomura

  Asian Studies Review, 50(2) 444-445, Aug, 2024 Peer-reviewed
• 1

  Educational evaluation and improvement in Japan: linking lesson study, curriculum management and school evaluation, by Yoshimi Okumura, Springer, 2023, 134 pp., US139ドル.99 (hardback)

  Kazuyuki NOMURA

  Asian Studies Review, 48(3) 669-671, Jun, 2024 Peer-reviewed
• To understand the value of freedom: A practice of global citizenship education for junior secondary students based on the case of Hong Kong

  Kazuyuki NOMURA, Takayuki KAWANA, Daisuke FUJIKAWA

  Proceedings of the 81st Annual Conference of Japanese Educational Research Association, 238-239, Aug, 2022 Lead authorCorresponding author
• Reflecting on Regret in a Tertiary Classroom on Immigrants and Refugees

  Yukiko Okuno, Kazuyuki Nomura

  The 28th Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum PROCEEDINGS 2022, 122-131, Jul, 2022
• Pedagogical support inspired by "good online language learners": Towards Post-COVID Japanese language education

  Kazuyuki NOMURA, Aya YOSHINO, Kanako NISHIZUMI, Naoko SATO

  145-145, Mar, 2022 Lead author
• Inherited tongues and vanishing tongues: Language policy in multilingual families from parents' perspectives

  Nov, 2014 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
• The Dynamics of Japanese Language Inheritance in Hong Kong

  Nov, 2014 Peer-reviewed
• Motivation for Learning and Linguistic Capital

  129-142, Jun, 2012 Lead authorCorresponding author
• Language Contact in Yokohama Chinese Community

  野村和之

  21-26, Oct, 2003

Books and Other Publications

• 国際教養学を学ぶための横断的思考法 : 15の漢字からひらく発見と問い(Gaitanidis, Ioannis 編)

  Gaitanidis, Ioannis, 佐々木, 綾子, Biontino, Juljan, 和田, 健, 見城, 悌治, Paskevicius, Algirdas, 片桐, 大輔, 五十嵐, 洋己, 小林, 聡子, 高光, 佳絵, 野村, 和之, 三野, 弘文, 永瀬, 彩子, 本間, 祥子, Tao, Bo (Role: Contributor, 第10章「力」)

  明石書店, Mar, 2026 (ISBN: 9784750361178)
• 青海波文香(陳韻紅 著)

  (Role: Contributor, 推薦序)

  Good Year Publisher, Jan, 2025 (ISBN: 9789887084228)
• Sixty chapters to understand Hong Kong

  Susanna YUEN, Kazuyuki NOMURA (Role: Contributor)

  Mar, 2016 (ISBN: 9784750342535)
• New Japanese Course (Vol 2: Basic)

  (Role: Joint author)

  Jan, 2012 (ISBN: 9789621446640)
• New Japanese course (Vol. 1: Introduction)

  (Role: Joint author)

  Aug, 2011 (ISBN: 9789621446633)

Presentations

• To what extent can learning Japanese function as pedagogical safe houses?

  Kazuyuki NOMURA

  The 60th RELC Conference, Mar 11, 2026, SEAMEO Regional Language Centre (RELC)
• Can can-do statements work more viably? Toward a more ethical grammar pedagogy for learners of Japanese

  Kazuyuki NOMURA

  Feb 23, 2026 Invited
• Language as soft power: Or staying hopeful in a world of despair (BMX-COIL)

  Kazuyuki Nomura

  82273-A "Introduction to Japanese Language and Culture", Carnegie Mellon University, Feb 5, 2026 Invited
• Resistance by design, periphery by choice: Rethinking language learning motivation in context

  Kazuyuki NOMURA

  The 14th International Sympodium on Japanese Language Education and Japanese Studies, Nov 21, 2025
• Emotional distance and refuge: Rethinking multilingualism and language learning motivation (BMX-COIL)

  Kazuyuki Nomura

  Sep 24, 2025, Department of Languages, Cultures, and Applied Linguistics, Carnegie Mellon University Invited
• Pursuing School Reform and Innovation through Lesson Study: Contrasting Two Approaches

  Yuta Suzuki, Yoshimi Okumura, Sarkar Arani Mohammad Reza, Kazuyuki Nomura

  The 84th Annual Conference of Japanese Educational Research Association, Aug 23, 2025 Invited
• How to stay in love: To be a driven Japanese language learner (BMX-COIL)

  Kazuyuki Nomura

  82273-A "Introduction to Japanese Language and Culture", Carnegie Mellon University, Apr 25, 2025 Invited
• Teaching to engage the disengaged: Teacher training at a Japanese language school in Hong Kong

  Kazuyuki Nomura

  Transforming language education: Teacher and learner diversity across Asia-Pacific, Mar 15, 2025, Osaka Metropolitan University Invited
• Motivations to learn Japanese in Hong Kong and other contexts (BMX-COIL)

  Kazuyuki Nomura

  82273-B "Introduction to Japanese Language and Culture", Carnegie Mellon University, Dec 6, 2024 Invited
• The Medium of Instruction and Relationship Building in Hong Kong's Japanese Language Classrooms: A Perspective from Positionality

  Kazuyuki Nomura

  Autumn Meeting 2024, Association for Japanese Language Education, Nov 17, 2024
• A survey report on how basic-level Japanese textbooks introduce the case particle NI: Towards a critical reflection of "The Guidelines for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test"

  Kazuyuki Nomura

  Exploring where language comes into being, Jun 15, 2024 Invited
• Japanese language education in today's Hong Kong: A perspective from hidden curricula

  Kazuyuki Nomura

  TALIS33, Sep 8, 2023 Invited
• To understand the value of freedom: A practice of global citizenship education for junior secondary students based on the case of Hong Kong

  Kazuyuki NOMURA, Takayuki KAWANA, Daisuke FUJIKAWA

  JERA 81st Annual Conference, Aug 24, 2022
• Reflecting on regret in a tertiary classroom about immigrants and refugees: Why is strategic empathy vital?

  Yukiko Okuno, Kazuyuki Nomura

  28th Princeton Japanese Pedagogy Forum, Apr 30, 2022
• Pedagogical support inspired by "good online language learners": Towards Post-COVID Japanese language education

  Kazuyuki NOMURA, Aya YOSHINO, Kanako NISHIZUMI, Naoko SATO

  Mar 17, 2022
• Is freedom free?

  Mar 16, 2022 Invited
• Sharing on Teacher Change and Professional Growth

  Kazuyuki NOMURA

  Professional Development in ELT, MA in English Language Teaching, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Jan 29, 2022 Invited
• What are teachers of Japanese teaching in classrooms?: An approach from hidden curriculum research

  Kazuyuki NOMURA

  Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong, Nov 24, 2021 Invited
• English-Japanese Interpretation Workshop

  Kazuyuki Nomura

  Department of Japanese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Oct 16, 2021 Invited
• Life story interviewing

  Kazuyuki Nomura

  May 24, 2021 Invited

Teaching Experience

• Apr, 2026 - Present

  Interpreter Training (Japanese to English) (Nichibei Kaiwa Gakuin)
• Oct, 2024 - Present

  Seminar in Global Issues (Chiba University)
• Aug, 2024 - Present

  To be a better and happier learner of Japanese (JV-Campus)
• Jun, 2024 - Present

  Cross-Disciplinary Studies IG(2) (Chiba University)
• Apr, 2024 - Present

  Introduction to Humanities and Social Sciences (Chiba University)
• Apr, 2024 - Present

  Practicing Japanese Language Support (Chiba University)
• Aug, 2023 - Present

  Invitaiton to Teaching Japanese as an Additional Language (Chiba University)
• Dec, 2022 - Present

  Chinese-Japanese Translation (Chiba University)
• Dec, 2021 - Present

  Culture and Language: A critical introduction to Japanese (Collaborative Internationanl Learning) (Chiba University)
• Oct, 2021 - Present

  Intercultural Education / Seminar on Intercultural Education (Chiba University)
• Apr, 2021 - Present

  Introductory/Elementary Japanese (Japanese 100/200 subjects) (Chiba University)
• Apr, 2021 - Present

  Multilingualism and Translanguaging (JS) (Collaborative International Learning) (Chiba University)
• Apr, 2024 - Jul, 2024

  Introduction to Japanese Linguistics A (Kyoritsu Women's University)
• Aug, 2021 - Aug, 2021

  Introduction to Language Socialisation (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
• Jan, 2016 - Aug, 2021

  Japanese Languages and Culture (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
• Sep, 2012 - Aug, 2021

  Japanese Communication through Language and Culture (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
• Jan, 2011 - Aug, 2021

  Chinese-Japanese Interpretation and Translation (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
• Sep, 2010 - Aug, 2021

  Japanese Linguistics (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
• Sep, 2010 - Aug, 2021

  Chinese-Japanese Translation (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
• Aug, 2020 - Aug, 2020

  Introduction to Ethnography (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

Professional Memberships

• The Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language
• Hong Kong Association for Applied Linguistics
• JASLA
• Japanese Educational Research Association
• Intercultural Education Society of Japan
• The Japanese Society for Mother Tongue, Heritage Language, and Bilingual Education

Major Research Projects

• Understanding the motivations of Japanese-speaking Hong Kong people as multilingual users

  KAKENHI Grant-in-aid, Grant-in-aid for Early Career Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2024 - Mar, 2027

  Kazuyuki Nomura

Academic Activities

• Consulting Work in Curriculum Matters

  Review, evaluation, Planning/Implementing academic research

  Japanese Department, The Ministry of Education Language Centre (MOELC), Singapore (Singapore), Mar, 2026 - Present
• External Examiner

  Review, evaluation

  Todaimae Language Centre (Hong Kong), Apr 1, 2023 - Present
• External Advisor

  Review, evaluation

  Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong (THEi), Sep 1, 2023 - Aug 31, 2027
• Editorial board member

  Planning, management, etc., Peer review

  The Japan Association for Second Language Acquisition, Jan 1, 2021 - Dec 31, 2024
• External Examiner

  Review, evaluation

  The University of Central Lancashire, Sep, 2018 - Dec, 2021

Social Activities

• 1

  Why learn a new language? Insights from learners of Japanese in Hong Kong and beyond

  Lecturer

  HKU Alumni Network of Japan, Hosei University, OPEN TALK SERIES, Apr 18, 2026
• Guidelines for Respecting Gender Diversity at Chiba University (Chinese version)

  Edit, Consultant, Other

  Diversity Promotion Section, Chiba University, Apr, 2025
• Global networking of schools for learning communities: Intercultural action resaerch towards school reform

  Host, Planner, Logistic support

  Centre for International Education, Chiba University, Faculty Development for Intercultural Educators 2024, Nov 28, 2024
• How does Japanese language learning contribute to learners' identites?

  Planner, Logistic support

  Centre for International Education, Chiba University, Faculty Development for Japanese Language Teachers 2023, Nov 28, 2023
• Career Development Support for Children with Diverse Linguistic and Cultural Backgrounds

  Commentator

  Chiba University Initiatives to make research environments more diversity-friendly 2023, Nov 17, 2023
• Language Learning: A perspective from Japanese language education

  Lecturer

  Ibaraki Prefectural Takezono HIgh School, Mock university lectures 2023, Nov 9, 2023
• Visiting the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences

  Lecturer, Official expert, Planner, Logistic support

  Junior High School Attached to Faculty of Education, Chiba University, Career Education 2023, Jul 5, 2023
• Why do Japanese teachers seem unready to teach critical thinking in classrooms?

  Edit, Consultant, Official expert

  Academic Research & Innovation Management Organization, Chiba University, EurekAlert!, EurekAlert!, May 18, 2023
• 避走—在日本兼職旅遊的W和T

  Other

  Musical Stone, Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, May, 2023
• Knowledge, attitude, and skills for Japanese language educators in the VUCA era

  Host, Planner, Logistic support

  Centre for International Education, Chiba University, Faculty Development for Japanese Language Teachers 2022, Feb 10, 2023
• Professional support for Japanese language teaching

  Consultant, Official expert, Performer

  Junior High School affiliated with the Faculty of Education, Chiba University, Dec, 2022 - Jan, 2023
• Explatory Activity (Fieldwork)

  Lecturer, Consultant

  Ohta High School, Gunma Prefecture, Japan, Integrated Exploratory Study, Jul 30, 2022 - Nov 26, 2022
• To make a society more livable to "non-majority people"

  Panelist, Host, Planner, Logistic support, Report author

  Chiba University Initiatives to make research environments more diversity-friendly 2022, Oct 26, 2022
• Motivational and Empowering Feedback in Writing Classrooms

  Host, Planner, Logistic support, Other

  Centre for International Education, Chiba University, Faculty Development for Japanese Language Teachers 2021, Mar 4, 2022
• Ten reasons why Japan sucks

  Guest

  Radio Television Hong Kong, Jul 4, 2019
• If you want to break away from Japan

  Contributor

  Sep, 2018
• Will to Power: Project-Based Learning in Post-WWII Japanese School Curriculum

  Contributor

  British Educational Research Association, BERA Blog, Jul 14, 2017

Other

• Nationally Registered Japanese Language Teacher

  Mar, 2025 - Present
• Diploma of Education (Secondary Japanese)

  Mar, 2001 - Present