Hiroshi Maruyama - Director

Hiroshi Maruyama - Director

May
25
Decolonizing Futures Published

Decolonizing Futures Published

I am happy to inform you of the publication of our book: Decolonizing Futures: Collaborations for New Indigenous Horizons. Four
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May
21
CEMiPoS Shares Critique of Upopoy in FOCUS

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
Dec
20
Interview with Performers of Mówi ONNA

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

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

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"

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

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

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

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

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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