Established in 1985, Southeastern Association of Teachers of Japanese (SEATJ) is a nonprofit professional organization for K-16 teachers of Japanese mainly in the Southeastern states including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Every spring, SEATJ holds an annual conference which includes presentations on various topics such as Japanese linguistics, second language acquisition, literature, pedagogy and technology. Although SEATJ primarily represents the southeast region of the US, we welcome participants from around the nation and abroad. The host institution of the conference, which rotates each year, publishes conference proceedings (eletronically or otherwise).