Hokudai Unit Members

Professor KATO Hirofumi

Department:
Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies, Hokkaido University

Research Fields:
Indigenous archaeologies, Prehistoric archaeology, Indigenous Heritage

Research map:
https://researchmap.jp/read0062223?lang=en

Web Page:
https://iris.cais.hokudai.ac.jp
https://www.hirofumi-kato.com

Associate Professor OCHIAI Ken-ichi 

Department:
Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies, Hokkaido University

Research Fields:
Ainu policies under the Constitution of Japan, The policies on the Indigenous peoples in other nation states

Research map:
https://ci.nii.ac.jp/nrid/9000016901573

Professor TANIMOTO Akihisa 

Department:
Graduate School of Humanities and Human Sciences, Hokkaido University

Research Fields:
Japanese History, Ainu’s History

Research map:
https://researchmap.jp/a-j-tnmt

Web Page:
https://www.let.hokudai.ac.jp/staff/tanimoto-akihisa

Professor YOSHIKAI Masato

Department:
Graduate School of Humanities and Human Sciences, Hokkaido University

Research Field:
Chinese History

Research maps:
https://researchmap.jp/read0184861/?lang=japanese

Web Page:
https://www.let.hokudai.ac.jp/staff/yoshikai-masato

Professor TSUJI Yasuo 

Department:
Graduate School of Law, Hokkaido University

Research Field:
Political Theory

Research map:
https://researchmap.jp/read0180809

Professor GAYMAN Jeffry

Department:
Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University

Research Fields:
Educational Anthropology

Research map:
https://researchmap.jp/483

 

Associate Professor ISHIHARA Mai

Department:
Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies, Hokkaido University

Research Fields:
Cultural anthropology, indigenous research

Research map:
https://researchmap.jp/anthroainu2018

Web page:
https://www.let.hokudai.ac.jp/staff/ishihara-mai

Professor YAMAMURA Takayoshi 

Department:
Center for Advanced Tourism Studies, Hokkaido University

Research Field:
Tourism Studies (Contents Tourism, Heritage Tourism, Media Tourism)

Research map:
https://researchmap.jp/read0196961/

Web Page:
https://yamamuratakayoshi.com/publications-list/

Professor YAMASAKI Koji 

Department:
Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies, Hokkaido University

Research Fields:
Cultural anthropology, Museum studies

Research map:
https://researchmap.jp/koji_yamasaki/?lang=english

Web Page:
https://www.let.hokudai.ac.jp/staff/yamasaki-koji

Associate Professor TASHIRO Akiko 

Department:
Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University

Research Fields:
Area Studies (Southeast Asia), Cultural Heritage Studies 

Research map:
https://researchmap.jp/read0115582

Professor EDELHEIM Johan Richard 

Department:
Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University

Research Fields:
Critical Issues of Tourism and Hospitality, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Research map:
https://researchmap.jp/JohanEdelheim/?lang=english

Associate Professor OKADA Mayumi

Department:
Office of Ainu Relations and Initiatives (aynu sisam urespa ukopirkare us i)/Center for Advanced Tourism Studies, Hokkaido University

Research Fields:
Heritage Studies, Public Archaeology, Indigenous Tourism

Research map:
https://researchmap.jp/arcotetsu

Associate Professor TANGIKU Itsuji

Department:
Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies, Hokkaido University

Research Fields:
Oral literature, linguistics (documentation and description of Ainu language and Nivkh language)

Research map:
https://researchmap.jp/tangikuitsuji/?lang=japanese

Associate Professor QU Meng

Department:
Center for Advanced Tourism Studies, Hokkaido University

Research Fields:
Creative tourism, creative geography, digital media arts and aesthetics

Research map: https://researchmap.jp/mengqu?lang=en

 

Professor YAMAUCHI Taro

Department:
Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University
Professor and Project Leader, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature

Research Fields:
Exploring ideal nutritional intake, physical activity, and body size/composition based on the perspectives of human evolution and adaptation
Environmental adaptation of populations in traditional societies and urban dwellers
Safe water, sanitation, hygiene and wellbeing

Research map:
https://researchmap.jp/smilelab

Web page:
https://smilelab.cambria.ac/
https://www.chikyu.ac.jp/sanitation_value_chain/

Professor SASAOKA Masatoshi

Department:
Graduate School of Humanities and Human Sciences, Hokkaido University

Research Fields:
Environmental sociology, Indonesian Area Studies 

Research map:
https://researchmap.jp/msasaoka/

Assistant Professor NYAMBE Sikopo

Department:
Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies, Hokkaido University

Research Fields:
Participatory Action Research, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Menstrual Health Management, Peri-urban

Research map:
https://researchmap.jp/snyambe?lang=en

Web page:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sikopo-nyambe-67128428
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sikopo-Nyambe

Assistant Professor SAI Akira

Department:
Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies, Hokkaido University

Research Fields:
Health Psychology, Human Ecology, Area Studies

Research map:
https://researchmap.jp/akirasai_hu?lang=en

Web page:
https://smilelab.ac/