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Yōsuke Yamahata
Yōsuke Yamahata | |
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| Born | August 6, 1917 Singapore |
| Died | April 18, 1966(1966-04-18) (aged 48) Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation | Photographer |
Yōsuke Yamahata (山端 庸介, Yamahata Yōsuke, August 6, 1917 – April 18, 1966) was a Japanese photographer best known for extensively photographing Nagasaki the day after it was bombed.
Biography
Yamahata was born in Singapore on 6 August, 1917;[1] his father, Shōgyoku Yamahata (山端祥玉, later to become known as a photographer) had a job there related to photography.[notes 1] He went to Tokyo in 1925 and eventually started at Hosei University (Tokyo) but dropped out in 1936 to work in G. T.
Sun (ジーチーサン商会, Jīchīsan Shōkai, aka Graphic Times Sun), a photographic company run by his father.[1] (He would become its president in 1947.) From 1940, Yamahata worked as a military photographer in China, Taiwan, French Indochina and Singapore and elsewhere in Asia outside Japan;&