Having studied at the School of East Asian Studies (SEAS), The University of Sheffield, he completed masters and doctoral degrees in the Global Issues Program at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University. He has 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. He is currently an Associate Fellow at the National Ainu Museum. His research concerns modern and contemporary Ainu intellectual history.