• 1974	born in Ueda, Nagano prefecture, Japan
  1980-1982	De Goede Herderschool, Ermelo, The Netherlands
  1982-1986	Ueda Kita Elementary School, Ueda, Japan
  1986-1989	Ueda Daisan Junior High School, Ueda, Japan
  1989-1992	Ueda High School, Ueda, Japan
  1992-1996	International Christian University, Mitaka, Japan (B.A. in Liberal Arts. B.A. thesis "Accent and Intonation of The Saru Dialect of Ainu")
  1996-1998	Graduate School of Human Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan (M.A.). M.A. thesis "The Consonantal Sandhi of Ainu" (in Japanese, abridged version appeared in 2002)
  1998-1999	Research fellow University of Groningen (financed by NUFFIC)
  2000-2001	Research fellow Sakhalin Museum of Regional Studies, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russian Federation
  2002-2006	Ph.D. student University of Groningen, Dep. of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts
  2005-	Lecturer in linguistics, Sapporo Gakuin University, Faculty of Economics
  2006	Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Groningen

Hidetoshi Shiraishi is the husband of Tomoko Shiraishi and father of Sayana and Nichika (Nika) Shiraishi.