昨日9月24日（水）に、ご賛同いただいた署名2073筆を、現時点での取りまとめとして、札幌市長とチカホ宛に提出いたしました。

札幌市にたいしては、以前の公開質問状への市の回答について「前向きな回答」を歓迎し、「当事者の声を聴取した上で検討する」との答えを重要な姿勢だと確認しました。

そしてこのたびの署名は、アイヌ当事者を含む多くの市民の声として取りまとめたものだと強調しました。

チカホにたいしては、署名提出と同時に、再度の要望を行いました。

〆切の9月末日まであと5日間。2500筆を超えて3000筆を目指しています。

SNSなどでの再度のシェア、SNSはやってないけれどメールを使用する方などにも広めてくださると助かります！

また、要望書に英訳を加えましたので、ぜひご活用ください。


Stop the discriminatory Ainu panel exhibition in Sapporo’s public space (Deadline: End of September)

Purpose of the Petition

Please help to back up Sapporo City in making the courageous decision to cancel the approval for the discriminatory Ainu panel exhibition scheduled for October 8 at the Sapporo Ekimae-dōri Underground Walkway (Chikaho), organized by Nippon Kaigi Hokkaidō Chapter.

We, C.R.A.C. NORTH, have since last year been calling for the cancellation of permission to hold this discriminatory panel exhibition in a public facility, and this effort has been covered on television.

Chikaho is a fully open public space, and if the exhibition goes ahead, many citizens—including members of the Ainu community—will be directly exposed to its discriminatory content.

We have already submitted an open letter and a petition to the City of Sapporo, and at last, on September 19, we received a positive response. Just one more step remains. Your signature could provide the decisive push.

The deadline is the end of September, and we plan to submit the petition in early October.

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Main Text

On October 8, 2025, a panel exhibition titled “Let’s Learn the Historical Facts about the Ainu” is scheduled to be held at the Sapporo Ekimae-dōri Underground Walkway (Chikaho), organized by the Nippon Kaigi Hokkaidō Chapter.
This exhibition claims in various ways that:
 • The Ainu are not an Indigenous people.
 • The Ainu were “civilized” by the Wajin (ethnic Japanese).
 • The Ainu were given privileged status during the colonization of Hokkaidō.

These claims fall under the acts prohibited by Article 8 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: “any action which has the aim or effect of depriving them of their integrity as distinct peoples, or of their cultural values or ethnic identities,” as well as “propaganda designed to promote or incite racial discrimination.”

They also clearly violate the Ainu Policy Promotion Act, Articles 4 and 6, which prohibit discrimination and call for efforts by citizens to contribute to “the realization of a society in which the pride of the Ainu people as an ethnic group is respected.”

Furthermore, as Professor Akihisa Tanimoto of Hokkaidō University pointed out in media coverage, such an exhibition represents “a logic that justifies colonial rule,” and “of course, those directly concerned will be hurt and offended”—this is “precisely harassment.”

We call on the City of Sapporo to:
 1. Cancel the approval for the use of the venue for this panel exhibition.
 2. Review the content of the panel exhibition held on September 16, 2025, together with Ainu organizations such as the Sapporo Ainu Association and relevant experts, and withhold approval for future exhibitions until the results of this review are taken into account.
 3. If the exhibition must be permitted, ensure that sufficient staff are present to prevent discriminatory harassment, and record the content of the panels.

Public spaces should be places where citizens can feel safe. Allowing discriminatory propaganda tramples on the dignity of citizens and runs counter to Sapporo City’s goal of realizing “a society of coexistence.”

→ If you support this request, please sign. Let us raise our voices so that the City of Sapporo makes the right decision.