In 1978, Yoshida received an academy award for I'll Find a Way in the Best Short Film category with Beverly Shaffer.
[1] In the summer of 1944, towards the end of the Second World War, Yoshida and her sister left the incarceration camp in Tashme, British Columbia.
[1] In the late 1940s, Yoshida got a job at the National Film Board of Canada in Ottawa, [1] where she worked until the mid-1960s as editor of, among others, the films Ducks, of Course (1966) and Tuktu and the Snow Palace (1967).
In 1975, she became a technical producer in Studio D, a women's production unit that emerged in response to a directive from the Canadian government for more women in technical professions.
[1] Shortly before retiring in 1978, she was a member of the team that received an Academy Award for the film I'll Find a Way.