Professor Nobuhiro Kishigami, the former president of the Japanese Association for Canadian Studies, received an academic award from the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology as the Anthropologist with the most prominent accomplishment in Japan in 2025. Emeritus of the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, Professor Kishigami has published books and articles focusing on Inuit Studies in Arctic Canada and Alaska. His most recent works include “A Comparative Study of Contemporary Indigenous Bowhead Whale Hunting in Alaska and Arctic Canada” and “Whaling and the Indigenous Right of the Nuu-chah-nulth People on the Northwest Coast of North America,” both published in May 2025. Read more on Professor Kishigami’s award at this link (in Japanese).