Yoshiko (Shirley) Yamaguchi

Yoshiko (Shirley) Yamaguchi (born 1920), is a noted Japanese film star, television reporter and politician. Yamaguchi's parents were Japanese, but she was born and raised in Manchuria.  After the Japanese invasion of Manchuria she adopted a Chinese name, Li Xianglan (in Japanese, Ri Ko Ran), and appeared in propaganda films and other movies produced by the Japanese for Chinese audiences.  At the end of World War II she avoided execution for treason in China by revealing her Japanese identity, and then established a career as Shirley Yamaguchi in Hollywood and on Broadway.  She met Isamu Noguchi in New York in the fall of 1950.  They were married in Japan in May 1952, and lived that year on the land of eminent potter Kitaoji Rosanjin. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1957. Yamaguchi subsequently became a television reporter and covered stories in Vietnam, Cambodia and the Middle East.  Now Yoshiko Otaka, following her marriage to a Japanese diplomat, she is a Liberal Democratic Party member of the Japanese parliament.