Yamazaki, Tomoko (1931–)
Yamazaki, Tomoko (1931–)
Japanese historian. Born 1931 in Nagasaki prefecture, Japan.
Works often focus on lives of unknown women; wrote The Eighth House of Japanese Prostitutes in the South Sea Islands (1973), which was based on oral history and won the Oya Soichi Prize for Non-Fiction; also wrote The Graves in Sandakan and Love and Blood-History of Interchange of Asian Women.
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