Akira Nakagawa teaches English at Osaka University of Commerce.  He earned the Master of Arts in English with a TESL Emphasis from Eastern Washington University, where he wrote a thesis on the suffering passive in Japanese and problems Japanese students face when they write in English. With LaVona, Akira has presented on the topic at WAESOL and published an article in WAESOL Quarterly, “Polysemy and Ambiguity in the English Verb, To Have.” They are currently writing an article on yosegaki hinomaru & senninbari. Akira Nakagawa teaches English at Osaka University of Commerce and has had his own language school in Osaka. He earned the Master of Arts in English with a TESL Emphasis from Eastern Washington University, where he wrote a thesis on the suffering passive in Japanese and problems Japanese students face when they write in English. With LaVona, Akira has presented on the topic at WAESOL and published an article in WAESOL Quarterly, “Polysemy and Ambiguity in the English Verb, To Have.” They are currently writing an article on yosegaki hinomaru & senninbari.