Várdduo seminar invites Professor Kunihiko Yoshida, Hokkaido University, Japan
The Ainu Property Tragedy, Challenges for their Reparations: Compared with Indigenous Peoples across the World.
Abstract
Three topics will be dealt with in my seminar. The first issue is the Ainu discriminatory land act modeled after the Dawes Act in the United States. The second is current issues, such as repatriation of ancestral remains, environmental degradation including damage to religious property, Indigenous knowledge, and language issues. The third topic will be how the Indigenous world is different from the modern civilized notion of property and wealth accumulation that might bring about war.
Professor Yoshida is an expert of reparations regarding the Ainu people, the indigenous people in Hokkaido, from civil law perspectives. His current research is focused on repatriation, environmental injustice, and traditional indigenous knowledge in support of pressing agenda of the Ainu reparations compared to UNDRIP (UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007) and other indigenous peoples’ practices across the globe.
His most recent environmental work addresses the topics of Minamata Disease and Fukushima TEPCO radiation litigations as well as comparative theoretical research of Covid-19 disasters.
All interested are welcome to participate in this seminar.
Professor Kunihiko Yoshida,
Hokkaido University, Japan