Margit Krause-Ono is Professor of German, European Culture, and Intercultural Communication at Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan. Born and raised in Germany, she has been an instructor, trainer, coach, translator and interpreter in northern Japan since 1980. She holds degrees from France (Université de Provence) and Australia (Macquarie University), and certificates as intercultural trainer as well as coach from Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany.