Professor Kei Ishiguro

Director of The Center for the Promotion of Collaborative Research, the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics; Collaborative Professor, Graduate School of Language and Society, Hitotsubashi University

B.A. (Sociology), Hitotsubashi University, completed PhD coursework at Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University in 1999, and obtained a PhD in Literature in 2008.

In 1999, Professor Ishiguro joined The Center for International Student Education (now The Center for Global Education and Exchange) at Hitotsubashi University, where he taught Japanese for sixteen years. In 2013, he became a professor at The Centre for Global Education and Exchange and The Graduate School of Language and Society at Hitotsubashi University. In 2015, he moved to The National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL), where he concentrated on research in the field of Japanese language education, while also supervising post-graduate students at Hitotsubashi University, with which he is affiliated.

Professor Ishiguro’s fields of specialisation are text theory and discourse analysis (Japanese linguistics), and composition and reading education (Japanese language education). He researches the overall process of language processing of the four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking.

He has authored twenty-three books as the sole author and forty-two books in total if including co-edited works. His best-known works include: 『よくわかる文章表現の技術（全五巻）』明治書院、『文章は接続詞で決まる』『「読む」技術』『日本語は「空気」が決める』『語彙力を鍛える』『段落論』光文社、『論文・レポートの基本』『形容詞を使わない大人の文章表現力』日本実業出版社、『大人のための言い換え力』NHK出版.