Yujin Yaguchi

Yujin Yaguchi is a professor in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo, where he has been teaching since 1998. He has published and lectured on issues related to U.S.-Japan cultural relations, focusing particularly on indigeneity, immigration, historical memories, tourism, and colonialism in Hawai‘i. His book on the construction of the Hawaiian imaginary in Japan during the twentieth century received the Joseph Roggendorf Award in 2012. Yaguchi's writings in English include discussions on historical memories related to Pearl Harbor and the Japanese image of Hawai‘i’s Japanese Americans in the post-WWII period. He has appeared widely in media outlets such as The New York Times and BBC, as well as Yomiuri Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun, and NHK.