- Honored U.S. beacon for Japan (The Japan Times)
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/member/member.html?mode=getarticle&file=fl20091101x1.html
Information that may be useful/benefitial for teahers of Japanese language in the U.S. (Some of the contents may rather be aginst language education, which I hope you will use to think about your counter argument.)