Blog articles
- “Animal welfare is not only for pets? wildlife welfare in hunting” Animal Blog “The Voices of the Dogs.” 2024. (Japanese)
- “Sustainable Hunting in Sweden: a thought from interviews with hunters” Animal Blog “The Voices of the Dogs.” 2023. (Japanese)
- “Dogs, camping, or cooking… Elmia Game Fair, the largest hunting fair in Scandinavia” Animal Blog “The Voices of the Dogs.” 2023. (Japanese)
- “Dogs are a beautiful part of nature: a dog shelter in Sweden” Animal Blog “The Voices of the Dogs.” 2020. (Japanese)
- “Hunting and animal welfare: an observation of Swedish hunting” Animal Blog “The Voices of the Dogs.” 2019. (Japanese)
Media coverage (selected)
- Featured in 21 Japanese newspapers. January – March 2024.
- Hakodate International Science Festival. August 2023.
- TBS radio Ishikawa Minoru Dairy Life. May 2023.
- The Japan Agricultural News. May 2022.
- The Japan Agricultural News. July, August, December 2021.
- Featured in 24 Japanese newspapers. June – August 2021.
- Action Database: MAP for Social Problem Solving. Social Impact for 2020 and beyond. ETIC. September 2020.
- Forbes JAPAN August-September 2020.
- The Hokkaido Shimbun Press – Okhotsk. 30 January, 2020.
- NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) Hokkaido. November 2018.
More information is available in the Japanese version of this website.
Invited lecture and workshop (selected)
- Invited lecture at the symposium by The Japanese Society for the Study of Human Animal Relations. March 2024.
- Invited lecture at the symposium by The Society for Applied Gerontology. October 2023.
- SRUC seminar at Edinburgh University. October 2023.
- Lecture by Ikushi Prize Winner. November 2022.
- Western Region Agricultural Research Center, the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization. January 2022.
- Kokoro research center, Kyoto University. January 2021.
- Chiku girls and University of Miyazaki. December 2020.
- Beyond meeting feat. Vision Hackers. August 2020.
- The Health Care Science Institute. July 2020.
- Workshop with dairy women in Okhotsk. January 2020.
- Seseragi foundation. November 2019.
- Chiku girls. August 2019.
- Workshop with dairy women and men in Betsukai. November 2018, July 2019.
- Doto SDGs council. August 2018.
More information is available in the Japanese version of this website.
Volunteer activities
From March to May 2020, I joined the National COVID-19 Cluster Taskforce at Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan as a volunteer. I was in charge of the leader of the data collection team. Our contributions were acknowledged in the following papers.
Furuse Y, Sando E, Tsuchiya N, Miyahara R, Yasuda I, Ko YK, et al. Clusters of coronavirus disease in communities, Japan, January–April 2020. Emerg Infect Dis. 2020 Sep. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2609.202272
Oshitani, et al. Cluster-based approach to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) response in Japan—February–April 2020. Japanese Journal of Infect Dis. 2020 June. https://www.niid.go.jp/niid/images/jjid/COVID19/No2_2020-363R1pre20200603.pdf
