Yuiko Asaba Lecturer (equiv. Assistant Professor) in Music at SOAS University of London. She is the author of the book, Tango in Japan: Cosmopolitanism Beyond the West (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, in production for publication in 2025). Her research examines the significant presence of Latin American music cultures in the Asia-Pacific, and she has published in journals including the Ethnomusicology Forum, Popular Music Studies, and the East Asian Journal of Popular Culture. As a tango violinist, she has played professionally as a member of tango orchestras in Argentina and Japan.