Jiro Numano
JIRO NUMANO, awarded a master's degree in linguistics from Brigham Young University, is a professor of English at Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin University in Hiroshima, Japan. He also teaches linguistics and the history of cultural exchange between the East and the West. Jiro has enjoyed subscribing to Dialogue since 1979. He was the founding editor of an independent bi-annual journal Mormon Forum (Japanese), which lasted from 1988 to 2000. He lives in Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan, with his wife, Mitsuko. He expresses sincere appreciation to Ethan Yorgason, Armand Mauss, and others on the editorial board for their ideas and editorial assistance. However, he is alone responsible for the contents of his paper.