Dr Kayoko Hashimoto is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages and Cultures at The University of Queensland, Australia. She is a leading scholar in language policy, Japanese and English language teaching in Asia, specialising in the construction of national and individual identities within fluid multicultural and multilingual contexts. Her work bridges the gap between political and cultural ideology and language teaching practice. As an author/editor, she has published five books including Rethinking the Asian Language Learning Paradigm in Australia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), Beyond Native-Speakerism (Routledge, 2018), and Japanese Language and Soft Power in Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Her most recent research, featured in Ideologies of Communication in Japan (2025), critically examines the tension between monolingual approaches and multilingual learners.Kayoko maintains a significant international profile, with research and teaching collaborations across Australia, Japan, Vietnam, the UK, and Poland, including a Visiting Fellowship at Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo (2024–2025), and appointment as an Erasmus+ Mobility Program scholar at Adam Mickiewicz University (2025–2027). A thematic editor (language & education) of Asian Studies Review, she is also the founder of the annual “Empowering Asian Language Speakers Symposium” at The University of Queensland, with “language and history” as the 2026 theme.
