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.
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Views mine, like/repost ≠ endorsement.
Oh, hi there.
November 2, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Oh, hi there.
I was listening the Maron this morning on the train. Jamie Lee Curtis was literally in tears(!) over someone who very likely would’ve been happy to see her interviewer machine-gunned in a ditch. Bizarre stuff.
September 16, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I was listening the Maron this morning on the train. Jamie Lee Curtis was literally in tears(!) over someone who very likely would’ve been happy to see her interviewer machine-gunned in a ditch. Bizarre stuff.
It’s incredibly expensive and I’m sure terrible but I secretly covet ‘80s Dune manga.
September 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
It’s incredibly expensive and I’m sure terrible but I secretly covet ‘80s Dune manga.
If nazis are “among” your politicians and “protesters” then guess what, jack?? You’re at a neo-nazi rally.
August 31, 2025 at 11:05 AM
If nazis are “among” your politicians and “protesters” then guess what, jack?? You’re at a neo-nazi rally.
I thought I’d stumbled upon a long lost Derridean critique of settler colonialism in Hokkaido for a second there…
August 25, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I thought I’d stumbled upon a long lost Derridean critique of settler colonialism in Hokkaido for a second there…
Thanks, @theguardian.com! The very first thing I think when I hear there’s a major disaster in my country is “how will this inconvenience the Americans.”
August 6, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Thanks, @theguardian.com! The very first thing I think when I hear there’s a major disaster in my country is “how will this inconvenience the Americans.”
Russ' claims about First Nations slavery come from the Aristotle Foundation: a far-right thinktank known for Residential School denialism. As a matter of fact, as part of their curriculum, residential schools forced many Indigenous children to engage in unpaid labour on farms. What do you call this?
August 1, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Russ' claims about First Nations slavery come from the Aristotle Foundation: a far-right thinktank known for Residential School denialism. As a matter of fact, as part of their curriculum, residential schools forced many Indigenous children to engage in unpaid labour on farms. What do you call this?
Ugh this makes me so mad. John A. MacDonald, our first PM -- a genocidal Orangeman -- was quite literally married into the Jamaican slavocracy. Much of Canada's founding wealth comes from investments in chattel slavery in the Caribbean. This is well documented.
August 1, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Ugh this makes me so mad. John A. MacDonald, our first PM -- a genocidal Orangeman -- was quite literally married into the Jamaican slavocracy. Much of Canada's founding wealth comes from investments in chattel slavery in the Caribbean. This is well documented.
CFP: "Rethinking Settler Colonialism in the Japanese Empire" for #aas2026 (description in image below). Please send abstracts or questions to roellimr➰gmail.com.
July 20, 2025 at 2:49 AM
CFP: "Rethinking Settler Colonialism in the Japanese Empire" for #aas2026 (description in image below). Please send abstracts or questions to roellimr➰gmail.com.
This is literally the final boss of Wolfenstein 3D
July 9, 2025 at 6:44 AM
This is literally the final boss of Wolfenstein 3D
Re: the Edward Colston statue: “Almost 14,000 people responded with 74% of all respondents saying that the statue should be housed in a Bristol museum.” Exactly.
www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/02/04/n...
www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/02/04/n...
June 30, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Re: the Edward Colston statue: “Almost 14,000 people responded with 74% of all respondents saying that the statue should be housed in a Bristol museum.” Exactly.
www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/02/04/n...
www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/02/04/n...
Unpopular opinion: Egerton Ryerson‘s bashed-in, spray-painted head is an incredibly beautiful modern art piece.
June 30, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Unpopular opinion: Egerton Ryerson‘s bashed-in, spray-painted head is an incredibly beautiful modern art piece.
I would too-- especially since it seems like it's so early that the loan word drifted over. By the way, these are the bits I was thinking of. I didn't notice the encyclopedia glosses 妖怪 as お化け, but that only muddies the waters further I guess.
June 13, 2025 at 7:31 AM
I would too-- especially since it seems like it's so early that the loan word drifted over. By the way, these are the bits I was thinking of. I didn't notice the encyclopedia glosses 妖怪 as お化け, but that only muddies the waters further I guess.
Half of whom are from Hawai‘i, and the remainder of whom are from Australia (note less specificity from the UTokyo side).
June 12, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Half of whom are from Hawai‘i, and the remainder of whom are from Australia (note less specificity from the UTokyo side).
I’m not sure how a private corporation can engage in “nation-to-nation relationships with Indigenous Peoples.”
June 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I’m not sure how a private corporation can engage in “nation-to-nation relationships with Indigenous Peoples.”
Interesting business model. We help them by pirating our own published work as “content” and they give us literally nothing in return.
May 31, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Interesting business model. We help them by pirating our own published work as “content” and they give us literally nothing in return.
Today’s ghoulish find: 24 years before publishing Jurassic Park, a young Michael Crichton — then a Harvard med student — was publishing craniometry studies.
May 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Today’s ghoulish find: 24 years before publishing Jurassic Park, a young Michael Crichton — then a Harvard med student — was publishing craniometry studies.
That’s too much geisha.
May 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
That’s too much geisha.
The history of colonization in a can.
April 28, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The history of colonization in a can.
Presses de l'Université du Québec‘s published another brilliant French translation of an important Ainu text: Dobashi Yoshimi’s 痛みのペンリウク: 囚われのアイヌ人骨!
April 18, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Presses de l'Université du Québec‘s published another brilliant French translation of an important Ainu text: Dobashi Yoshimi’s 痛みのペンリウク: 囚われのアイヌ人骨!
The Guardian matter-of-factly (even if ex post facto-ly) calling Chagos the “UK’s last African colony” is refreshingly frank. All the other “overseas departments” and “territories” ought to be labelled as such.
April 2, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The Guardian matter-of-factly (even if ex post facto-ly) calling Chagos the “UK’s last African colony” is refreshingly frank. All the other “overseas departments” and “territories” ought to be labelled as such.
The replies… 😕
April 1, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The replies… 😕
Miwo and NDL古典籍OCR are both stumped— anyone know what the bit that looks like a “ｉ” after 特法 is meant to be?
March 23, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Miwo and NDL古典籍OCR are both stumped— anyone know what the bit that looks like a “ｉ” after 特法 is meant to be?