Kazuko Saito is currently an adjunct lecturer in Japanese at LaGuardia Community College, CUNY. She has previously taught Japanese at Brooklyn College, The City College of New York, and Hunter College. She specializes in online language teaching and developed a fully online Japanese language course for Brooklyn College, which she has been teaching since 2017. Ms. Saito has taught college-level Japanese courses in India, Singapore, Vietnam, Australia, and Japan. She was selected as one of the first-year participants in the JALEX (Japan Language Exchange) program by the Japan Foundation Center for the Global Partnership, immediately after she passed the “Japanese Language Teaching Competency Test” in 1992. She also served as a Community-Based Instructor at the Japan-America Society of Indiana in 1992-1993.