Abstract Urespa, meaning “to grow together” in the Ainu language, is a social venture founded at Sapporo University in 2010. The Urespa club brings Indigenous Ainu and Wajin (i.e. non-Ainu) students together in a curriculum-based environment to co-learn the Ainu language and Ainu cultural practices. The initiative’s aim is to restory the conventional narrative of Otherness in Japan by creating a transformative space or “micropublic” in which students can work collaboratively across ethnic difference. In this paper, we argue that Urespa succeeds in effecting an inclusive social setting for both Ainu and Wajin students through the design and implementation of a process which promotes and, recursively, is shaped by, a transcultural form of social encounter. The challenge this makes to the promotion of multicultural programming within Japan in recent decades is important although not without controversy.

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Urespa（“共同成长”）：通过创新的社会企业重塑日本的阿伊努-瓦人关系

摘要 Urespa 在阿伊努语中意为“共同成长”，是 2010 年在札幌大学成立的社会企业。 Urespa 俱乐部将土著阿伊努人和瓦人（即非阿伊努人）学生聚集在一个以课程为基础的环境中，共同发展。学习阿伊努语和阿伊努文化习俗。该计划的目的是通过创造一个变革性的空间或“微公共”，让学生可以跨越种族差异进行协作，从而重新讲述日本对他者的传统叙述。在本文中，我们认为 Urespa 通过设计和实施一个促进跨文化形式的社会交往并递归地由其塑造的过程，成功地为阿伊努人和瓦人学生创造了一个包容性的社会环境。