Mika Yamamoto

Mika Yamamoto
山本 美香
Born
Mika Yamamoto

(1967-05-26)26 May 1967
Tsuru, Yamanashi, Japan
Died20 August 2012(2012-08-20) (aged 45)
Aleppo, Syria
Cause of death
  • Shot by pro-government assailant
  • Killed by government shelling
Resting placeTsuru
Alma materTsuru University
OccupationJournalist
Years active1990–2012

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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  3. ^ "Japanese TV journalist killed in Aleppo gunfight". MSN. Beirut; Tokyo. Reuters. 20 August 2012. Archived from the original on 2 September 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2012.
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  5. ^ Richard Wilson (21 August 2012). "Death toll of journalists in Syria rises to 15 this year". Press Gazette. Archived from the original on 24 August 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
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  7. ^ "ボーン・上田賞受賞! NNN きょうの出来事 @ 日テレ". Archived from the original on 11 January 2013. Retrieved 24 August 2012.