[4] In 1937, Yuriko returned to the United States and joined Dorothy Lyndall's Junior Dance Company in Los Angeles.
[4] From 1941 to 1943, due to the signing of Executive Order 9066, Yuriko was interned along with other Japanese Americans at the Gila River War Relocation Center in Arizona, where she taught dance.
She danced in the first production of Graham's masterpiece, Clytemnestra, as well as in Appalachian Spring, Cave of the Heart and Dark Meadow.
[7] In the musical, Yuriko alongside Eliot Feld, David Winters, Muriel Mannings, and Betty Ageloff played a group of kids.
[8] She has also performed on television, and in motion pictures and danced to works by Halim El-Dabh and Eugene Lester.