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Mika Yamamoto

1967 - 2012

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Mika Yamamoto (山本 美香, Yamamoto Mika) (26 May 1967 – 20 August 2012) was an award-winning Japanese video and photojournalist for the news agency Japan Press. Yamamoto was killed on 20 August 2012 while covering the ongoing Syrian Civil War in Aleppo, Syria. She was the first Japanese and fourth foreign journalist killed in the Syrian Civil War that began in March 2011. She was the fifteenth journalist killed in Syria in 2012. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mika Yamamoto is the 163rd most popular journalist (down from 157th in 2019), the 2,969th most popular biography from Japan (down from 2,336th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Japanese Journalist.

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Mika Yamamoto ranks 163 out of 196Before her are Roxana Saberi, Yvonne Ridley, Anastasia Baburova, Alan Johnston, Jill Dando, and Adrian Lamo. After her are Olga Skabeyeva, Claas Relotius, Timur Miroshnychenko, Lise Rønne, Janet Maslin, and Katsiaryna Barysevich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Mika Yamamoto ranks 765Before her are Remigija Nazarovienė, Dara Torres, Nikolay Bukhalov, Carolyn Lawrence, Heavy D, and Liu Ailing. After her are Michiel Bartman, Stephanie Niznik, Hamzah Saleh, Sipan Shiraz, Tõnu Tõniste, and Christophe Capelle. Among people deceased in 2012, Mika Yamamoto ranks 510Before her are Michael Dokes, John Ingle, James Abdnor, Alan G. Poindexter, Jonathan Frid, and Alex Alves. After her are Leslie Carter, Miki Roqué, Samia Yusuf Omar, Hollie Stevens, Vigor Bovolenta, and Andrew Breitbart.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Mika Yamamoto ranks 2,969 out of 6,245Before her are Kisenosato Yutaka (1986), Tomoyoshi Ikeya (1962), Sojiro Ishii (1970), So Kataoka (1992), Ko Itakura (1997), and Hiroaki Kumon (1966). After her are Jun Takata (1977), Takanori Nagase (1993), Kentaro Sakai (1975), Toshihiro Aoyama (1986), Takahiro Moriuchi (1988), and Kanna Hashimoto (1999).

Among JOURNALISTS In Japan

Among journalists born in Japan, Mika Yamamoto ranks 5Before her are Kanno Sugako (1881), Kenji Goto (1967), Tsuneko Sasamoto (1914), and Kenji Nagai (1957).