Eriko Sato is Associate Professor of Japanese and translation studies at the State of University of New York at Stony Brook, where she is also the Director of the Japanese Teacher Education Program. She has authored and co-authored over a dozen books, including
Japanese Stories for Language Learners, Essential Japanese Grammar, and
Learning Japanese Kanji. She has also authored or co-authored
Contemporary Japanese, Japanese Demystified, Japanese for Dummies, Complete Japanese Grammar, Japanese Phrases for Dummies, Basic Japanese, and
My First Japanese Kanji Book. Anna Sato is co-author and illustrator of
My First Japanese Kanji Book. She is also the translator of
100 First Words for Toddlers and the illustrator of
Reading & Writing Japanese.