Mika Yamamoto
Mika Yamamoto | |
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| 山本 美香 | |
| Born | Mika Yamamoto 26 May 1967 Tsuru, Yamanashi, Japan |
| Died | 20 August 2012 (aged 45) Aleppo, Syria |
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| Resting place | Tsuru |
| Alma mater | Tsuru University |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Years active | 1990–2012 |
Mika Yamamoto (山本 美香, Yamamoto Mika) (26 May 1967 – 20 August 2012) was a 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. 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.