is an American academic. She is a professor of

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at the

University of Hawaii at Manoa A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...

, and specializes in American cultural history and US-Asian relations. She is also an amateur pianist.

Biography

Yoshihara was born in New York City and grew up in Tokyo. She attended high school in

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and graduated from the

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before earning a master's degree and doctorate from

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

. Yoshihara has taught at the University of Hawaii at Manoa since 1997 and served as chief editor of the journal ''

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'' since 2014. She played the piano since the age of three, but took a break from playing while in graduate school. As an adult, she has entered competitions like the

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as an amateur, and won in the 2014 Aloha International Piano Festival's amateur division.

Selected bibliography

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References

External links

mariyoshihara.com - Yoshihara's personal website
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