() On 9 October 2020, the town of Suttsu in Hokkaido, located along the coast of the Sea of Japan, applied to be considered for preliminary research as part of the Japanese government’s
() In December 2019, around 1,300 Ainu human remains were reported to be transferred to the Upopoy Memorial Site from 12 Japanese universities in accordance with the post-UNDRIP Ainu policy, despite dissenting voices
() On 14 October, I drove Carmen Grau, Spanish journalist, to the village of Kamoenai (originally called Kamuy-nai in the Ainu language) to hear local voices on the mayor's controversial decision to accept the
() Dr. Elizabeth Sumida Huaman has distributed flyers for the remaining events in her online series An Alliance Between Human & Creatures: Indigenous Stories of Nature, Healing & Resilience. See the flyers below for
() On 6 August, CEMiPoS Director Maruyama Hiroshi and Koizumi Masahiro, Director of the Sapporo Freedom School, visited revered Ainu leader Hatakeyama Satoshi in hospital in the northern part of Hokkaido. He has been
() Dr. Elizabeth Sumida Huaman, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota, is organizing an online series featuring Indigenous speakers discussing human relationships with nature. According to Dr. Huaman, "Our goal with each session
