Native name 八島 光 Died December 7, 1988 Role Author | Name Mitsu Yashima Full Name Tomoe Sasako Spouse Taro Yashima | |
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Occupation Children's book author and artist Children Mako Iwamatsu, Momo Yashima Books Momo's Kitten, Plenty to Watch Grandchildren Sala Iwamatsu, Mimosa Iwamatsu Similar People Taro Yashima, Mako Iwamatsu, Momo Yashima, Shizuko Hoshi | ||
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.
References
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