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Justin Kanda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nMoore Hall 587
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\nkandajus(at)hawaii.edu\n

For inquiries about SLS Graduate Programs (MA, AGC, PhD), please email him at the email address above or at sls(at)hawaii(dot)edu. Appointments (both in-person and over Zoom) are available.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Born and raised in Honolulu, Justin earned his BA in Japanese and MA in Japanese Linguistics at the University of Hawai’i at M\u0101noa. He studied abroad in Sophia University during the 2012-2013 academic year with a scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) in Japan. Previous positions at Â鶹´«Ã½include supervising the Ticket, Information, & ID Office and the Campus Center Graphics Office, as well as Administrative Assistant in the Department of Linguistics. Justin also helped spearhead the Japanese translation of a campus guide\/map<\/a> for UHM while in an English-Japanese translation class in the EALL department.<\/p>\n

When not in the office, Justin works as an Assistant Coach for Hawaii Baptist Academy’s Bowling<\/a> program, and volunteers at Shafter Junior Bowling Club as a coach on Saturday mornings. He chairs the Hawaii Youth Scratch Championships Presented by SMART<\/a>, and is also on the steering committee for the Oahu Junior Bowlers Tour.<\/a> He is currently appointed as a Director on the Hawaii USBC Association<\/a> board of directors and the Pearl Harbor Junior Bowlers, Inc. non-profit foundation board.<\/p>\nJustin’s areas of professional interest include:
\nConstruction of verbal humor
\nTranslation (JPN\/ENG), and the relationship between fidelity & fluency
\n(Informal) discourse analysis of social media\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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