Kayoko Hashimoto is a lecturer at the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland. She is also language and education thematic editor of Asian Studies Review. She teaches Japanese language and translation and interpretation of theories and practices to students with diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, and supervises domestic and international research students with higher degrees. Following her main research area, language policy, she has written extensively on teaching English in Japan and internationalization of Japan's higher education, and spreading the Japanese language in Asia from policy perspectives. As her recently edited book, Japanese Language and Soft Power in Asia (Palgrave Macmillan) demonstrates, she has been increasingly engaged in research on language policy in Asia. She also has been working on native-speakerism and the findings will be published in a co-authored book: Beyond Native-Speakerism: Current Explorations and Future Visions (Routledge, forthcoming). Kayoko obtained a Ph.D. in education from La Trobe University, Australia.