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Product Description The Premium Website gives you one convenient place to find invaluable learning resources, such as an audio player that comes pre-loaded with the audio files needed to complete activities found in the textbook and Student Activities Manual. You can also consult a list of Japanese websites to explore Japanese language and culture in an authentic context. Attention Premium Website user: Cengage support for existing users of Premium Websites will end of 12/31. About the Author Yukiko Abe Hatasa received her Ph.D. in linguistics in 1992 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has taught all levels of Japanese for over twenty-five years, and has worked on curriculum development and teacher training in five major institutions in the US, Australia, and Japan. She is known nationwide as one of the premier Japanese methodologists in the US and Japan. She is currently a professor of Japanese pedagogy at Hiroshima University. Kazumi Hatasa received his Ph.D. in education in 1989 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently a professor at Purdue University and Director of the Japanese School at Middlebury College. He is recognized internationally for his work in software development for the Japanese language and distributes most of his work as freeware over the Internet.