The Equal Times On Ainu Activists' Response to Upopoy
Writing for The Equal Times, journalist Carmen Grau interviews Ainu leaders Fumio Kimura, Shizue Ukaji,
Tomas Colbengtson (http://colbengtson.com/), member of the organising committee of the International Conference on Policy towards Indigenous Peoples (ICoPIP), has just started encouraging Sami, Ainu and Greenlandic Inuit Artists to participate in the art exhibition/workshop on 30 November and 1 December. He had preliminary discussions on this idea with the core members of the Ainu Women’s Association and Koji Yuki, an Ainu modern artist, during his stay in Sapporo on 19-23 March.