Yuki Sasaki Caldwell is an Instructor of Japanese Language in the Department of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies at the University of Georgia (UGA), where she also received her Master of Education degree in Foreign Language Education. In her more than 20 years of teaching at UGA, she has instructed every Japanese language course offered, created course materials, and coached prize-winning students in preparing for speech contests. She is from the city of Sayama, located in Saitama prefecture, part of the Greater Tokyo area.