A.B.M. Razaul Karim Faquire

Dr. A.B.M. Razaul Karim Faquire is a scholar of linguistics, language policy, geopolitics, and Japan–Bangladesh strategic relations. He served as Professor of Japanese Language and Culture and Director of the Institute of Modern Languages at the University of Dhaka, and has held visiting professorships at Kobe Gakuin University, Japan, and Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, Malaysia, together with an adjunct faculty position at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

He holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Dhaka and completed doctoral coursework at Hyogo University of Teacher Education, Japan, under a MEXT scholarship. He has served as Visiting Research Fellow at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL), Japan.

He is the author of eleven monographs, including:

Modality and Its Learner Variety in Japanese (Peter Lang, 2012)

বাংলাদেশের ইংরেজী ভাষা শিক্ষাব্যবস্থার চালচিত্র ও সংস্কারের রূপরেখা [The English Language Education System in Bangladesh and An Outline of Its Reform] (Adorn Publication, 2017)

ভাষা-সংসর্গ বিদ্যার নিরিখে বাংলা ভাষার সৃজন, ঋদ্ধায়ন ও অবনমন পরিক্রমা [The Process of Creation, Enrichment and Degradation of Bangla Language in the Framework of Contact Linguistics] (Somoy Prokashon, 2022)

বিদেশী ভাষাশিক্ষা ও ভাষা ইনস্টিটিউট [Foreign Language Education and Language Institute] (Puhti Prakash, 2023)

ভাষিক রাজনীতি ও ভাষা-পরিস্থিতি: প্রেক্ষাপট বাংলাদেশ [Linguistic Politics and Turbulent Language Situation in Bangladesh] (Gyankosh Prakashani, 2024)

জাতীয়তাবাদী দৃষ্টিকোণ থেকে ভাষানীতির রূপকল্প [Envisaging Language Policy from the Nationalistic Perspective] (Somoy Prakashan, 2024)

『日本語とベンガル語の対照文法研究』 [A Contrastive Grammar of Japanese and Bangla] (LINCOM Europa, 2026)

Japan–Bangladesh Relations in a Changing Asia: Development, Strategy, and Regional Order (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026)

His forthcoming publications include:

The Syntax of Japanese: A Reference Grammar (LINCOM Europa)

The Syntax of Bangla: A Descriptive Linguistic Analysis (Motilal Banarsidass)

He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and presented at international conferences across Asia, Europe, and North America. He is a regular columnist for major newspapers in Bangladesh, writing in Bangla, English, and Japanese on foreign policy, geopolitics, language policy, and Japan–Bangladesh relations.