Text: Keisuke Kimura Kant orowa yaksuno aran kepu sinep kaisam Not a single thing is brought down from heaven without a role to play. This is a proverb of the Ainu, a people indigeno...

Written by Andy (Podcast creator)Born in 1995 and a graduate of Hitotsubashi University's Faculty of Sociology, Andy moved to Shiraoi-cho, Hokkaido in 2020, where he launched “Mimori Radio,” a podc...

Written by Toshikuni Okamura, Ph.D. in Agriculture, Chairman of the Board of Directors, NPO Kinshizen-Morizukuri KyokaiIn the 1970s, people in German-speaking Europe became aware of the rapid ...

Written by Yuya YokoyamaHave you ever heard of the remote island of Teuri Island in Hokkaido?Many people outside of Hokkaido have probably never heard of or seen the name. Since moving to Hokk...

Written by Keisuke Kimura One photo I found while scouring data in the cloud was dated July 18, 2018. It was just before the municipal elementary school in Sapporo went on summer vacation. In ...

Written by Yuya Yokoyama Recently, I have been thinking a lot about “garbage."This is not only because I have had more opportunities to think about “environmental conservation” since joining R...

Written By Shota Igarashi  I have a fly fishing mentor.He has taught me not only about fly fishing, but also about the way I look at all things, values, and a lot about the world and cult...

Written by Keisuke Kimura The mountain behind my house. That was my original landscape.It was the spring of my 18th year when I left Hokkaido, where I was born and raised, and moved to Miyagi ...

Written by 川橋 邑仁It was after the height of summer when I decided to visit a river in an area I was unfamiliar with. On the way home from a family outing with our young son, we stopped by t...

Written by Yuya YokoyamaTemperatures this winter have been like a roller coaster ride.Sudden wild swings in temperatures that are supposed to be warm are becoming the norm. In some areas, temperatu...