My writing in Japanese has been published in Shiso (Iwanami), Gendai Shiso (Seidosha), Impaction (Impact Publishers), and elsewhere. In English, at Japan Focus (The Asia-Pacific Journal) and in Japan Forum (Routledge). I am the translator of the Japanese edition of Richard Siddle's Race, resistance and the Ainu of Japan, co-editor of Ainu minzoku hiteiron ni kō suru (Against Theories of Ainu Ethnic/National Denial), Tokyo: Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 2015. I am co-author of Cultural and Social Division in Contemporary Japan: Bridging Social Division, (Yoshikazu Shiobara, Kohei Kawabata, Joel Matthews eds., Routledge: CRC Press) and Idō to iu keiken: Nihon ni okeru 'imin' kenkyū no kadai (Experiences in Motion: New Agendas for 'Migration Studies' in Japan), Tokyo: Yūshindō, 2013. 


Having studied at the School of East Asian Studies (SEAS), The University of Sheffield, I completed masters and doctoral degrees in the Global Issues Program at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University. I have taught as a Junior Fellow at the Graduate School of Social Sciences at Hitotsubashi, been a recipient of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship and taught as a lecturer at the Research Institute for Japanese Studies, Kanda University of International Studies. an Associate Fellow at the National Ainu Museum. I am currently Assistant Professor at the National Museum of Ethnology. My research concerns modern and contemporary Ainu intellectual history.