Michael Röllinghoff
@roellinghoff.bsky.social
Assistant professor of Japanese Studies at HKU. I write about settler colonialism, empire, and Indigenous sovereignty in Hokkaido and the transpacific. PhD from UToronto, Postdoc at UTokyo.
Views mine, like/repost ≠ endorsement.
Views mine, like/repost ≠ endorsement.
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The Necessities of Life: Japanese Colonial Policy as a Social Determinant of Ainu Health, 1876–1887
Summary. In this paper, I reassess the Meiji period (1868–1912) Japanese public health and Indigenous management policies, focussing on the Karafuto Ainu i
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My article is finally in print! I detail the impact of Japanese colonial policy on Ainu health during the early-mid Meiji period, focusing on the village of Tsuishikari. The article's subtext is the broader question of Indigenous health in historical research.
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National Post crosses dangerous line by publishing call for violence against NDP leader: ricochet.media/media/nation...
National Post crosses dangerous line by publishing call for violence against NDP leader
By publishing a call for violence against the NDP leader the National Post platforms rhetoric which has led to past assassinations
ricochet.media
October 5, 2026 at 10:28 PM
National Post crosses dangerous line by publishing call for violence against NDP leader: ricochet.media/media/nation...
Dylan Moran rambling on about “cancel culture” on the Adam Buxton Podcast makes me long for a simpler time.
October 5, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Dylan Moran rambling on about “cancel culture” on the Adam Buxton Podcast makes me long for a simpler time.
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I just saw that this book on the Japanese invasions of Korea in the 1590s has been published fully open access, with contributions from many top scholars in the field. I look forward to reading!
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The Aftermath of the Imjin War in Early Modern East Asia
"The Aftermath of the Imjin War in Early Modern East Asia" published on 29 Sep 2026 by Brill.
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October 4, 2026 at 10:30 AM
I just saw that this book on the Japanese invasions of Korea in the 1590s has been published fully open access, with contributions from many top scholars in the field. I look forward to reading!
brill.com/display/titl...
brill.com/display/titl...
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October 2, 2026 at 3:22 PM
October 2, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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Good thing Liberals are ramming another pipeline through the country with no review and highly criminalized protest!
Records come and records go. But this is one for the ages.
The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly is now at a record 3.23°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. This crushes the previous daily record set in 1982 by over 1.14°C.
The Climate 8-ball is looking up.
The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly is now at a record 3.23°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. This crushes the previous daily record set in 1982 by over 1.14°C.
The Climate 8-ball is looking up.
October 2, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Good thing Liberals are ramming another pipeline through the country with no review and highly criminalized protest!
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本日は #日本酒の日 です。
#アジア遊学 312
畑有紀・芳澤元編『日本酒を読み解く 歴史・文化・技術』(bensei.jp/index.php?ma...)
信仰との関わりや文学での表現、業界の動向や地域社会での役割など、人文社会科学領域の諸分野から多層的な広がりをみせる #日本酒 の文化の在り方を体系的に捉える。
#アジア遊学 312
畑有紀・芳澤元編『日本酒を読み解く 歴史・文化・技術』(bensei.jp/index.php?ma...)
信仰との関わりや文学での表現、業界の動向や地域社会での役割など、人文社会科学領域の諸分野から多層的な広がりをみせる #日本酒 の文化の在り方を体系的に捉える。
October 1, 2026 at 1:41 AM
本日は #日本酒の日 です。
#アジア遊学 312
畑有紀・芳澤元編『日本酒を読み解く 歴史・文化・技術』(bensei.jp/index.php?ma...)
信仰との関わりや文学での表現、業界の動向や地域社会での役割など、人文社会科学領域の諸分野から多層的な広がりをみせる #日本酒 の文化の在り方を体系的に捉える。
#アジア遊学 312
畑有紀・芳澤元編『日本酒を読み解く 歴史・文化・技術』(bensei.jp/index.php?ma...)
信仰との関わりや文学での表現、業界の動向や地域社会での役割など、人文社会科学領域の諸分野から多層的な広がりをみせる #日本酒 の文化の在り方を体系的に捉える。
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Derelict, 1982
https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5104
https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5104
September 30, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Derelict, 1982
https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5104
https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5104
Just arrived in the post, literally gift wrapped. Congratulations, @sandeepbak.bsky.social!
September 30, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Just arrived in the post, literally gift wrapped. Congratulations, @sandeepbak.bsky.social!
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I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
September 29, 2026 at 11:43 AM
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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Please seriously consider buying your books (and everything else too) from other places
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
www.404media.co
September 27, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Please seriously consider buying your books (and everything else too) from other places
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Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare.
In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
September 26, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare.
In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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I have learned about Lucy Guo against my will, and I really think people need to stop worshipping “self-made billionaires” for their smarts and start assuming every one of these motherfuckers were able to amass so much wealth because their depravity has no bottom line.
September 24, 2026 at 6:55 PM
I have learned about Lucy Guo against my will, and I really think people need to stop worshipping “self-made billionaires” for their smarts and start assuming every one of these motherfuckers were able to amass so much wealth because their depravity has no bottom line.
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My new article tells the story of peri-urban Chinese villagers in early 20th century Hong Kong when the colonial government settle land ownership, implement ‘improvement schemes’ and remove their village homes. If you are interested in #ColonialCities, or #HongKongHistory in general, check it out!
📣 New #OpenAccess article
🏘️ @klalexcheung.bsky.social, 'Chinese villagers at the colonial urban periphery: improvement schemes, landed property and indigeneity in Hong Kong, c. 1890s-1930s'
🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory
🏘️ @klalexcheung.bsky.social, 'Chinese villagers at the colonial urban periphery: improvement schemes, landed property and indigeneity in Hong Kong, c. 1890s-1930s'
🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory
September 25, 2026 at 10:15 AM
My new article tells the story of peri-urban Chinese villagers in early 20th century Hong Kong when the colonial government settle land ownership, implement ‘improvement schemes’ and remove their village homes. If you are interested in #ColonialCities, or #HongKongHistory in general, check it out!
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See, I refuse to let them make me say I hate technology. Because it’s not true! I LOVE technology. I don’t like weird mean dudes demanding we pour all of earths resources into a project that *they advertise* as world destroying. Because that is incredibly stupid, on its face.
September 23, 2026 at 11:49 PM
See, I refuse to let them make me say I hate technology. Because it’s not true! I LOVE technology. I don’t like weird mean dudes demanding we pour all of earths resources into a project that *they advertise* as world destroying. Because that is incredibly stupid, on its face.
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Nova Scotia repealed its decades-old moratorium on uranium mining last year. For now, mining companies appear to be snubbing the province’s open call for uranium exploration, but some residents are still petitioning for the ban to be reinstated.
As Nova Scotia tries to kick-start uranium mining, residents worry while industry shrugs
Amid the critical minerals rush, Nova Scotia lifted a four-decade uranium exploration ban last year. No mining company responded, but locals still worry
thenarwhal.ca
September 23, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Nova Scotia repealed its decades-old moratorium on uranium mining last year. For now, mining companies appear to be snubbing the province’s open call for uranium exploration, but some residents are still petitioning for the ban to be reinstated.
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Today @avilewis.ca, MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social and labour leaders came together to send a clear message to Mark Carney: Canada's airports are not for sale.
If you agree, sign the petition at: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
If you agree, sign the petition at: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
September 22, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Today @avilewis.ca, MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social and labour leaders came together to send a clear message to Mark Carney: Canada's airports are not for sale.
If you agree, sign the petition at: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
If you agree, sign the petition at: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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香港釣魚新手日記――花おじいちゃんの夕飯を釣る／吉田育未
第6回（番外編）：カナダで「大西洋の金」を釣る
book-lighthouse.theletter.jp/posts/47daa6...
香港釣魚新手日記――花おじいちゃんの夕飯を釣る／吉田育未
第6回（番外編）：カナダで「大西洋の金」を釣る
book-lighthouse.theletter.jp/posts/47daa6...
香港釣魚新手日記――花おじいちゃんの夕飯を釣る／吉田育未
第6回（番外編）：カナダで「大西洋の金」を釣る
book-lighthouse.theletter.jp
September 21, 2026 at 10:33 AM
web灯台よりコンテンツ、更新しました٩( ᐛ )و
香港釣魚新手日記――花おじいちゃんの夕飯を釣る／吉田育未
第6回（番外編）：カナダで「大西洋の金」を釣る
book-lighthouse.theletter.jp/posts/47daa6...
香港釣魚新手日記――花おじいちゃんの夕飯を釣る／吉田育未
第6回（番外編）：カナダで「大西洋の金」を釣る
book-lighthouse.theletter.jp/posts/47daa6...
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For those asking: www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
September 19, 2026 at 2:19 PM
For those asking: www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
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And every day there is more Fresh AI Hell. What's worse than polluting the information ecosystem with synthetic text dressed up to look like news? Dressing it up further as the work of fake Indigenous journalists:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
‘Very harmful’: website uses AI to generate northern Indigenous news ‘correspondents’ | CBC News
The website WE NEWS has three northern Indigenous 'AI correspondents.' Their profiles say they are 'a member of Yukon First Nation,' 'of Dene heritage,' and 'an Inuk raised in the North.' Experts in t...
www.cbc.ca
September 19, 2026 at 8:07 PM
And every day there is more Fresh AI Hell. What's worse than polluting the information ecosystem with synthetic text dressed up to look like news? Dressing it up further as the work of fake Indigenous journalists:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Yellowhead is hiring two Indigenous Research Assistants to support the Borders Hide the Horizon Red Paper.
For more information and how to apply, visit us at yellowheadinstitute.org/work-with-us/
For more information and how to apply, visit us at yellowheadinstitute.org/work-with-us/
September 18, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Yellowhead is hiring two Indigenous Research Assistants to support the Borders Hide the Horizon Red Paper.
For more information and how to apply, visit us at yellowheadinstitute.org/work-with-us/
For more information and how to apply, visit us at yellowheadinstitute.org/work-with-us/
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Event: Looking Back at Walterina Markova: Trans Misogyny and Modalities of Living in the Japan-occupied Philippines
Website for registration and detailed event description, including speaker bios and abstracts:
www.econ.aoyama.ac.jp/laboratory/2...
Website for registration and detailed event description, including speaker bios and abstracts:
www.econ.aoyama.ac.jp/laboratory/2...
September 18, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Event: Looking Back at Walterina Markova: Trans Misogyny and Modalities of Living in the Japan-occupied Philippines
Website for registration and detailed event description, including speaker bios and abstracts:
www.econ.aoyama.ac.jp/laboratory/2...
Website for registration and detailed event description, including speaker bios and abstracts:
www.econ.aoyama.ac.jp/laboratory/2...
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Government has spent years arguing in court that elderly Quakers sitting down and holding placards about Palestinian Action are, in fact, terrorists who must be treated as such. Meanwhile their reaction to these people is to stress that they understand their "reasonable concerns". Infuriating.
Lifeboat station in Portsmouth forced to temporarily shut after far-right action
Lifeboat station in Portsmouth forced to temporarily shut after far-right action
RNLI facility had been affected by attempts by activists to stop asylum seekers landing in boats from the Channel
A lifeboat station on the south coast of England near the spot where far-right activists tried to stop asylum seekers landing has been forced to temporarily close, it has emerged.
The station in Portsmouth shut after it and other sites run by the RNLI were targeted by people objecting to the lifeboat charity going to the aid of people trying to get to the UK on small boats. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Government has spent years arguing in court that elderly Quakers sitting down and holding placards about Palestinian Action are, in fact, terrorists who must be treated as such. Meanwhile their reaction to these people is to stress that they understand their "reasonable concerns". Infuriating.
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Ce n’est pas sans raison que les précédents gouvernements libéraux ont envisagé de privatiser les aéroports sans finalement le faire.
September 17, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Ce n’est pas sans raison que les précédents gouvernements libéraux ont envisagé de privatiser les aéroports sans finalement le faire.
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What if we were to treat affordable housing as economic infrastructure, competing with pipelines and ports? It’s a comparison that reflects housing’s actual importance to overall economic output and productivity, Ernest Lang writes.
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
The Nation-Building Strategy Nobody Can Tariff | The Tyee
Why Mark Carney should get government far more involved in delivering affordable housing for Canadians.
thetyee.ca
September 17, 2026 at 11:14 PM
What if we were to treat affordable housing as economic infrastructure, competing with pipelines and ports? It’s a comparison that reflects housing’s actual importance to overall economic output and productivity, Ernest Lang writes.
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...