Person

Sanada, Haruko

Born in Tokyo, she earned her master degree (Japanese linguistics) and her doctorate (Japanese linguistics) from Gakushûin University in Tokyo. In 2005 she joined Saitama Gakuen University in Saitama where she was Associate-Professor from 2005 to 2008 and Professor in 2009. Since 2010 she is Professor of Rissho University in Tokyo. Her areas of scholarly interest are historical linguistics of Japanese from the Meiji era (1868 - 1912) to the present, lexicology, and statistical methods in linguistics. She is the author of Investigations in Japanese Historical Lexicology (2004, 2008), and currently an editor of the Journal of the Study of Japanese Language and Literature (文学語学).