May
21
CEMiPoS Shares Critique of Upopoy in FOCUS
CEMiPoS was invited to write for March 2022 volume of FOCUS, a newsletter by the Asia-Pacific Human Rights Information Center
Hiroshi Maruyama - Director
Dec
20
Interview with Performers of Mówi ONNA
CEMiPoS Director Hiroshi Maruyama had the privilege of joining the Ainu and Polish performers of Mówi ONNA in a roundtable
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Aug
19
Solidarity with Kimun Kamuy
We at Cemipos stand in solidarity with a five-year-old male brown bear killed on 18 June 2021 by the authorities
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Nov
06
Videoartist Antonie Frank Grahamsdaughter Publishes Article on Ainu Rights
Distinguished videoartist and journalist Antonie Frank Grahamsdaughter, reported Hatakeyama Ekasi's struggle for Indigenous Ainu people's rights in the Swedish magazine
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Nov
01
Talk Event on Naoki Prize Winner "Netsugen"
On 30 October, a talk event on Soichi Kawagoe's「熱源」(Netsugen, lit. "heat source"), which was awarded the 162nd Naoki
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Oct
21
A Conversation with Tahara Fuci
Last week, journalist Carmen Grau interviewed Tahara Ryoko Fuci, chairperson of the Ainu Women's Association. Tahara Fuci, revered Ainu female
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Oct
20
Meeting Kimura Ekasi at Biratori
On 15 October, Carmen and I met Kimura Ekasi, one of the Ainu leaders in the repatriation movement in Japan,
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Oct
18
A Closer Look at a Sign in Upopoy
In December 2019, around 1,300 Ainu human remains were reported to be transferred to the Upopoy Memorial Site from
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Oct
17
CEMiPoS Director and Journalist Visit Kamoenai
On 14 October, I drove Carmen Grau, Spanish journalist, to the village of Kamoenai (originally called Kamuy-nai in the Ainu
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