Mitsu Yashima

Mitsu Yashima

Mitsu Yashima in 1975
Native name 八島 光
Born Tomoe Sasako
Died December 7, 1988
Occupation Children's book author and artist
Spouse(s) Taro Yashima
Children Makoto Iwamatsu

Mitsu Yashima (八島 光 Yashima Mitsu), whose real name was Tomoe Sasako (笹子 智江 Sasako Tomoe), was a Japanese children's book author.

World War II and later years

Mitsu was the daughter of a shipbuilding company executive. She attended college in Japan. In the '30s, she joined a Marxist study group, where she met her future husband, artist Taro Yashima. They went to America to study art in 1939. When World War II broke out, Mitsu joined the U.S war effort, working for the OSS by sending American propaganda to the Japanese. She adopted the pseudonym Mitsu Yashima during the war. Mitsu died at the age of 80 on December 7, 1988.[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Judy Stone (2007-03-18). "An unlikely heroine of World War II". SFGate. Retrieved 2014-02-04.

Further reading

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