Yosuke Yamahata

Yosuke Yamahata (Singapore, 1917 – Japan, 1966) studied at Hosei University in Tokyo, but left that institution before graduating in order to work in his father’s photo company. During the early years of the war Yamahata was active as a military photographer in China and other places. In 1942 he returned to Japan. By 1965 Yamahata was seriously ill. The diagnosis was terminal cancer, caused by the radiation to which he had been exposed in Nagasaki.