Kaoru (Kay) Ueda is the curator for the Hoover Institution Library & Archives’ Japanese Diaspora Collection at Stanford University and manages the endowed Japanese Diaspora Initiative. She acquires archival materials on Japan and overseas Japanese and promotes their use for educational and scholarly purposes. She also curates and develops the Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection, the world’s most extensive online full- image open- access digital collection of prewar overseas Japanese newspapers. She edited On a Collision Course: The Dawn of Japanese Migration in the Nineteenth Century (authored by Yasuo Sakata in Japanese; Hoover Institution Press, 2020) and Fanning the Flames: Propaganda in Modern Japan (Hoover Institution Press, 2021) and co-edited with Eiichiro Azuma, Japanese America on the Eve of the Pacific War: An Untold History of the 1930s (Hoover Institution Press, 2024).
Course
- 2025 – Course Six- Japanese Genealogy: From Japan to the Americas
