Japanese speakers of English make up a vibrant and growing community of those who can claim their place in the language. However, the transition between English and Japanese pronunciation is one of the most difficult to make. In all my years of teaching English to students from Japan, I sought to find a pronunciation bridge between Japanese and English. Now, finally, we found that bridge, because Haruka Moriyama has built it definitively and successfully with her revolutionary “Slide Method”.  For the past ten years I have observed Ms. Moriyama develop the “Slide Method” by doing what no one has ever done before: analyzing the oral and facial musculature used in Japanese and English pronunciation and providing students with a way to practice the transition between the two. If students follow the “Slide Method”, they will find that they can order their coffee and sandwich without struggle and, perhaps more importantly, confidently claim their place in the rich, global chaos that is the English Language.