Kaoru Ueda

Kaoru (Kay) Ueda is the curator of the Japanese Diaspora Collection at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. Ueda manages the endowed Japanese Diaspora Initiative to promote the study of overseas Japanese history during the Empire of Japan period. In addition to the curatorial work of traditional archival and rare books, she curates and develops the Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection, the world’s largest online full-image open-access digital collection of pre–World War II overseas Japanese newspapers. She is the editor of On a Collision Course: The Dawn of Japanese Migration in the Nineteenth Century (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2020), Fanning the Flames: Propaganda in Modern Japan (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2021), and Japanese America on the Eve of the Pacific War: An Untold History of the 1930s (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2024). She also curates exhibitions and organizes workshops related to Japanese and overseas Japanese history and collaborates with Nikkei cultural heritage institutions to preserve historical documents.