Identity area
Type of entity
Authorized form of name
Parallel form(s) of name
辻信一
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Tsuji, Shin’ichi (pseudonym)
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
History
Keibo Oiwa was born in 1952. He is a cultural anthropologist, author, translator, environmental activist, and public speaker.
He moved to North America in 1977, where he studied in various universities in Canada and the United States and earned a PhD in anthropology from Cornell University. Shortly after, Oiwa relocated to Montreal as a research fellow at McGill University.
In 1991, he returned to Japan and began teaching at the International Studies Department of Meiji Gakuin University, retiring in 2020. He is the founder of the Sloth Club, an ecology and “Slow Life” non-governmental organization, giving lectures and workshops on social and environmental issues.
Oiwa is an award-winning author and editor of over 20 books in Japanese and English. He has collaborated with authors such as David Suzuki and Joy Kogawa. Four of his books have been translated into Korean, and Stone Voices: Wartime Writing of Japanese Issei won the 1992 Canada-Japan Book Award. Oiwa regularly contributes to Japanese monthly magazines Be-Pal and Ecocolo.
He currently resides in Yokohama, Japan.
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
Maintained by
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Created by Alston So, March 2026.