Tomoko Yoshida

Tomoko Yoshida (吉田 知子, real name Tomoko Kira 吉良 知子; Hamamatsu, February 6, 1934) is a Japanese writer.

She studied economics at the Nagoya Women's University and grew up in Shinkyō (currently Changchun), the capital of Manchukuo. After World War II, she moved to Toyohara (nowadays Ioujno-Sakhalinsk) and came back to Japan in 1947, where she worked as a high school teacher in Hamamatsu and for the magazines Ise Shimbun, Gomu (ゴム) and Fabeln, Parabeln (寓話).

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