Kazunori NOZAWA is Professor Emeritus at Ritsumeikan University, Japan. He received B.Edu. from Utsunomiya University in Japan and M.A. from the University of Kansas in the U.S. He was Honorary Visiting Scholar at Bond University for 1994-95, The University of Queensland for 1995 in Australia, and The University of British Columbia for 2001-2003 in Canada. He has taught Japanese as a Foreign Language in the U.S. and has been teaching English as a Foreign Language in Japan. His main research areas are CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) and Intercultural Communication. He was the co-founder and the first chair of both JALT (Japan Association for Language Teaching) CALL SIG and CIEC FLER (Council for Improving Education through Computers, Foreign Language Education & Research) SIG and also the founder and first president of JALT Toyohashi Chapter. He is currently Editor-in-Chief for CALL-EJ. His publication includes The Pickled Plum and the Japanese Sword: Japanese Wisdom Exemplified in History (The translation of Umenoshi to Nihonto by Kiyoyuki Higuchi) and Soichiro Honda: The Endless Racer (The translation of Honda Soichiro no Jinsei by Masajiro Ikeda) published by Japan International Cultural Exchange Foundation, 1993 and 1995 respectively, Computa Riyono Gaikokugo Kyoiku: CAI no Doko to Jissen (Foreign Language Education Through Computers: Trend and Practice in CAI) published by Eichosha Publishing Co, Ltd. in 1993, Saishin Gaikokugo CALL no Kenkyu to Jissen (Foreign Language CALL: Recent Research and Practice by CIEC in March 2003 and ICT o Tsukatta gaikokugo Kyoiku (Foeign Language Education Using ICT) published by Tokyo Denki University Press in July 2008.