For some time his parents had been trying to persuade him, much against his will, to marry a certain girl. My friend, however, did not believe this. His mother, the telegram explained, was ill. It had taken me a few days to get together enough money to cover the necessary expenses, and it was only three days after my arrival that my friend received a telegram from home demanding his return. I went there at the insistence of a friend of mine, who had gone to Kamakura to swim. It was at Kamakura, during the summer holidays, that I first met Sensei. And with pen in hand, I cannot bring myself to write of him in any other way.
Whenever the memory of him comes back to me now, I find that I think of him as "Sensei" still. It is not because I consider it more discreet, but it is because I find it more natural that I do so. It publishes Japanese Language and Literature twice each year and the AATJ Newsletter four times annually.I always called him "Sensei." I shall therefore refer to him simply as "Sensei," and not by his real name. It holds an annual conference in conjunction with the Association for Asian Studies and also cosponsors the major annual foreign language education conference, the annual meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. AATJ is the product of the consolidation of two national organizations: the Association of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ), founded in 1963, and the National Council of Japanese Language Teachers (NCJLT), founded in 1992.ĪATJ gives scholars the opportunity to exchange academic and professional views, results of research, and news of the field.
AATJ fosters professional development, the promotion of Japanese and foreign language education, and the exchange of research, and seeks to coordinate its activities with related organizations to promote Japanese studies, including a network of state and regional affiliate organizations. The American Association of Teachers of Japanese is a non-profit, non-political organization of individuals and institutions seeking to promote the study of Japanese language, linguistics, literature, culture, and pedagogy, at all levels of instruction.
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