Aki Matsushima
Lecturer of Japanese
Member Of:
- School of Modern Languages
Office Phone: 404-894-7327
Office Location: Swann 332
Office Hours: By appointment
Email Address: aki.matsushima@modlangs.gatech.edu
Overview
Aki Matsushima (M.Ed., University of West Georgia) is an Instructor of Japanese. She has also been President of Georgia Association of Teachers of Japanese (2002-2003).
She also teaches Japanese Language Arts to junior high school students at Georgia Japanese Language School.
She has been studying the art of tea ceremony since 2000.
Education:
- MEd (University of West Georgia)
- BEd (Kagoshima University)
Interests
Teaching Interests:
Language Teaching Methodology for Beginning Learners
Research Interests:
Effective Language Teaching for Beginning Learners
Research Fields:
- Communication
- Japanese
- Studies Abroad
Issues:
- Communication
- Cross-Cultural Understanding
- East-Asian Studies
- Education
- Heritage Language Learning
- Language Acquisition
- Language and Popular Culture
- Literature
Courses
- JAPN-1001: Elementary Japanese I
- JAPN-1002: Elementary Japanese II
- JAPN-2001: Intermediate Japanese I
- JAPN-2002: Intermediate Japanese II
- JAPN-3001: Advanced Japanese I
- JAPN-3691: Tech & Scientific Japn
- JAPN-3692: Business Japanese
- JAPN-3694: Conversation Practicum
- JAPN-4163: Japn Literature Culture
Publications
Translations
- Command Responsibility for the Failure to Stop Atrocities: The Legacy of the Tokyo Trial (Boas, G.)
In: Toshiyuki Tanaka, Tim McCormack, and Gerry Simpson (Eds.), Beyond the Victors' Justice? The Tokyo War Crimes Trial Revisited. (pp. 266-285)
Date: 2013
- Punishing Japan’s ‘Opium War-Making’ in China: The Relationship between Transnational Crime and Aggression at the Tokyo Tribunal (Boister, N.)
In: Toshiyuki Tanaka, Tim McCormack, and Gerry Simpson (Eds.), Beyond the Victors' Justice? The Tokyo War Crimes Trial Revisited. (pp. 266-285)
Date: 2013
- The Firebombing of Tokyo and Other Japanese Cities (Henderson, I)
In: Toshiyuki Tanaka, Tim McCormack, and Gerry Simpson (Eds.), Beyond the Victors' Justice? The Tokyo War Crimes Trial Revisited. (pp. 266-285)
Date: 2013
Updated: Jan 13th, 2026 at 3:41 PM