Yuko Konno
Lecturer in the Department of Multicultural Communication, School of International Relations, Asia University. Received an MA and PhD in History from the University of Southern California. Specializes in Asian American history, with a focus on the history of Japanese immigration to North America. Her publications include the essay "Localism and Japanese Emigration at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" published in Amerasia Journal, which won the Lucy Chan Award in 2012.
(Updated June 2021)
Stories from This Author
Book review: Masumi Izumi, "Migration and Movements of Japanese Canadians: The Unknown History of Japanese People's Transnational Lives"
June 23, 2021 • Yuko Konno
The Japanese film "Asahi in Vancouver," released in 2014, depicts the exploits of the "Asahi," a legendary Japanese-Canadian baseball team that existed before World War II. This highly entertaining film, directed by an up-and-coming young director and featuring a star-studded cast, skillfully weaves together historical fact and fiction to convey in an easy-to-understand way to 21st-century audiences the various aspects of Vancouver's Japanese community before the war and the discrimination they faced from white society. This book, "Japanese Canadian Movements …
