Mika Yamamoto
Japanese video and photo journalist (1967–2012) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mika Yamamoto (山本 美香, Yamamoto Mika)[1] (26 May 1967 – 20 August 2012) was an award-winning Japanese video and photojournalist for the news agency Japan Press.[2] Yamamoto was killed on 20 August 2012 while covering the ongoing Syrian Civil War in Aleppo, Syria. She was the first Japanese[3] and fourth foreign journalist killed in the Syrian Civil War that began in March 2011.[4] She was the fifteenth journalist killed in Syria in 2012.[5] Yamamoto was a recipient of the Vaughn-Uyeda Memorial Prize of the Japanese Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association for her reporting of international affairs in 2004.[6][7]
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山本 美香 | |
Born | Mika Yamamoto (1967-05-26)26 May 1967 Tsuru, Yamanashi, Japan |
Died | 20 August 2012(2012-08-20) (aged 45) Aleppo, Syria |
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Resting place | Tsuru |
Alma mater | Tsuru University |
Occupation | Journalist |
Years active | 1990–2012 |
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