Naoko Kato is a College Lecturer at St. Mark’s College and Corpus Christi College, teaching Early Modern and Modern East Asian History. She has taught Asian Canadian and Asian Migration courses at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. A former Japanese-language librarian at the University of British Columbia, she currently works for the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources. She is part of the scholar’s network for the Past Wrongs, Future Choices based at the University of Victoria. 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

“Saving China and Admiring Japan: Cultural Traitor Qian Daosun,” Special Issue: Mediating Collaborationism: Cosmopolitism, Asianism, and the Recounting of History, Modern Asian Studies (Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2024, pp. 34 – 55). 

Monographs

Kaleidoscope: Uchiyama Bookstore and Sino-Japanese Visionaries. Hong Kong: Earnshaw Books, 2022. 

Book Chapters

“Uchiyama Bookstore: Sino-Japanese Cultural Exchanges in the Midst of War,” in Jonathan Henshaw, Craig Smith, and Norman Smith, eds., Translating the Japanese Occupation of China. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2021. 

Public-facing Scholarship

Haiku selection, Omoide – Memories, Recollections and Reminiscences, Gabriola Museum (Gabriola Historical and Museum Society), 2026. Exhibit on the history of Japanese Canadians on Gabriola Island.

“Forging Ties: A Shanghai Bookshop Played a Pivotal Role in Uniting China and Japan.” History Today, June 2023.

Co-editor with Tristan Grunow. Digital Meijis: Revisualizing Modern Japanese History at 150. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Library, 2018

“Reviewing Meiji via Japanese-Canadian Connections.” Meiji at 150 Digital Teaching Resource, 2018.