Yoshiko Yamaguchi

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Yoshiko Yamaguchi (Japanese: 山口淑子 Yamaguchi Yoshiko; Chinese: 山口淑子 Shānkǒu Shūzǐ; 12 February 1920 – 7 September 2014) was a Japanese singer, actress, journalist, and politician. Born in China, she had an international career in film in China, Hong Kong, Japan, and the United States. Early in her career the Manchukuo Film Association concealed her Japanese origin, and she went by the Chinese name Li Hsiang-lan (李香蘭), rendered in Japanese as Ri Kōran. This allowed her to convincingly portray Chinese characters in Japanese propaganda movies. After the war she appeared in Japanese films under her birth name and in several American films under the stage name Shirley Yamaguchi. Upon marrying her second husband she quit acting and worked as a journalist in the late 1950s under the name Yoshiko Ōtaka (大鷹 淑子, Ōtaka Yoshiko). She was elected as a member of the Japanese parliament in 1974 and served for 18 years. After retiring from politics she served as vice president of the Asian Women's Fund.

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