Svetlana Paichadze, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Research Faculty of Media and Communication at Hokkaido University. Her main research themes are the education, identity and language issues of Russian speaking diaspora. She is co-editor (with Philip Seaton) of Voices from the shifting Russo-Japanese border (Karafuto/Sakhalin, Routledge, 2015) and coauthor (with Mooam Hyun) of
Left behind on Sakhalin: Japan, Korea and Russia. Story of 10 families (Ko bunken, 2016 for the Japanese version, translated and published in Korean Chaek kwa Hamkke 2019).