Takuya Kojima is a Lecturer in Japanese Language and Studies in the School of Culture, History, and Language at the Australian National University. He previously held appointments as a postdoctoral fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and as a tenured assistant professor at Nagasaki University. His research examines Japanese language education through an applied linguistics lens, focusing on learner identity, teacher education, teaching with technology, multimodality, classroom silence, and arts-based research. His publications on Japan, the Japanese language, and language education include Social Support for International Students in Foreign Language Classroom Communities of Practice (2020), Parental Involvement in Their Children’s Japanese Learning: Language Course for Parents at a High School (2021), and Moving Multimodal Task Assessment Forward in Language Education via Learner Perspectives (2022). He received a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science grant for the project 'A Study of Online Teaching Skills in a Japanese Language Practicum Teacher Community of Practice: Towards a Post-Corona' (2021–2023). He has been an executive board member of the Association of Language and Cultural Education in Japan since 2022 and served as its head of secretariat (2022–2025). He is also the host institution’s representative for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test in Canberra.