Independent Curator
Uni's office of Nature-human Interaction Studies
Minami6-Higashi5, Abashiri,
093-0006, Hokkaido, Japan
Tel: +81-152-43-3620
e-mail: unisan@m5.dion.ne.jp


Part-time Associate Professor, Museum Course
Tokyo University of Agriculture
196 Yasaka, Abashiri,
099-2493, Hokkaido, Japan
Tel:+81-152-48-3857
Fax:+81-152-48-2766

1. Professonal Career

2006- Part-time Associate Professor, Museum Course,
Faculty of Bioindustry, Tokyo University of Agriculture ( Okhotsk Campus)
2004- Independent Curator, Uni's office of Nature-human Interaction Studies
1995-2003 Curator of Social History, Shiretoko Museum

2. Education

1991 Bachlor in education, Hokkaido University

3. Pabulications

Uni, Y. 2015. Photographs taken by Romyn Hitchcock in Hokkaido and Shikotan Is. in 1888 and his trip route. Hokkaido Minzokugaku [Hokkaido Journal of Ethnology], 11: 57–74. [In Japanese with English caption]
Uni, Y., Toyama, M. and Kishimoto, H. 2014. The Photographs of the Naha Area Taken by Roy Chapman Andrews in 1910. Bulletin of the Historiographical Institute, 37: 69–84. [In Japanese with English abstract] Okinawa Repository Integrated Open-Access Network PDF7.4MB
Uni, Y., Koyama, K., Nakagun, S. and Maeda, M. 2014.Sighting Records of Cetaceans and Sea Birds in the Southern Okhotsk Sea, off Abashiri, Hokkaido. Bulletin of the Shiretoko Museum, 36: 29–40. [In Japanese with English abstract] Shiretoko Museum Web, PDF1MB
Uni, Y. and Kubodera, T. 2014. Sepiola birostrata from the Rocky Beach in Southern Okhotsk Sea off Abashiri, Hokkaid. Bulletin of the Shiretoko Museum, 36: 3–4. [In Japanese with English abstract] Shiretoko Museum Web, PDF 389KB
Kitamura, S., Matsuishi, T., Yamada, T. K., Tajima, Y., Ishikawa, H.,Tanabe, S., Uni, Y., Abe, S. 2013. Two genetically distinct stocks in Baird’s beaked whale (Cetacea: Ziphiidae). Marine Mammal Science, 29(4): 755–766.
Uni, Y. 2013. Types of Exhibition Methods of the Natural History Museums and an Ideal Gallery in the 21st Century. Journal of the Museological Society of Japan, 8(2): 75–90. [In Japanese with English abstract] (PDF 3.8MB）
Amano, M., Yamada, T. K., Brownell, R. L. Jr., and Uni, Y. 2011. Age determination and reproductive traits of killer whales entrapped in ice off Aidomari, Hokkaido, Japan. Journal of Mammalogy, 92(2): 275–282.
Uni, Y. 2011.Mullet and Halfbeak of Abashiri. Bulletin of the Shiretoko Museum, 32: 37–40. [In Japanese with English abstract] Shiretoko Museum Web, PDF(326K)
Uni, Y. 2011. The Educational Role of the Visitor Center in Remote Communities. Bulletin of Japan Museum Management Academy, 15: 53–59 [In Japanese with English abstract]
Uni, Y. 2006.Catch records of Steller sea lion Eumotopias jubatus in the Kuril Islands pre World War II. Bulletin of the Shiretoko Museum, 27: 47–51. [In Japanese with English abstract] Shiretoko Museum Web, PDF(852K)
Uni, Y. 2006.Whales, dorphines and porpoises off Shiretoko．Bulletin of the Shiretoko Museum, 27: 37–46. [In Japanese with English abstract] Shiretoko Museum Web, PDF884K
Uni, Y. 2004. Marine Mammal Watching Programs in Hokkaido and their conditions and subjects. Bulletin of the Shiretoko Museum, 25: 1–6. [In Japanese with English abstract] Shiretoko Museum Web, PDF1.4M
Uni, Y. 2004. Did they breed in Shiretoko penninsula? A consideration on Kuril seal Phoca vitulina. Bulletin of the Shiretoko Museum, 25: 7–12. [In Japanese with English abstract] Shiretoko Museum Web, PDF940K
Uni, Y. 2004. A breeding Record of Harlequin Duck Histrionicus histrionicus in Shiretoko Peninsula, Hokkaido. Bulletin of the Shiretoko Museum, 25: 13–14. [In Japanese with English abstract] Shiretoko Museum Web, PDF772K
Uni, Y. 2003. Catch records of Dugong dugon in the Okinawan waters. Bulletin of the Nago Museum, 11: 1–14. [In Japanese only] picturePDF2.3MB Summary
Uni, Y. 1999. HANZAWA, Chu: Photographer in the former Japanese territory of Sakhalin; his biography and a compilation of his work. Bulletin of the Shiretoko Museum, 20: 61–84. [In Japanese with English abstract]

4. Presentations

Whales and Japanese Whaling. Youth Summit 2009, Deutsch-Japanische Jugendgesellschaft. Tokyo. 15, Aug. 2009.
Past Feeding Ground, Migration route and new records of the Western Gray Whale off Japan．International Union for Conservation of Nature the Western Gray Whale Rangewide Workshop. Tokyo. 21–24, Aug. 2008.
Review of Catch Records of Marine Mammals in Japanese Waters. 4th International Conference "Marine Mammals of the Holarctic", St. Pertersburg. Russia. 10–14, Sep. 2006. Poster presentation.
Ice-entrapment of Killer Whales in the Sea of Okhotsk. The 16th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, San Diego. 11–13, Dec. 2005. Poster presentation.
Mass Stranding of Killer Whale in Pack Ice at Aidomari, Rause, Hokkaido (Preliminary report). IX International Mammalogical Congress, Sapporo. 4–5, Aug. 2005. Poster presentation.
Extralimital records of hair seals and warlus in Japanese waters. IX International Mammalogical Congress, Sapporo. 4–5, Aug. 2005. Poster presentation.