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 Taro Yashima Arthuor's Star Sign
 Nationality - American Profession - Author & Illustrator
 Date of birth - 21 Sep 1908 Date of death - 1994
 Place of birth - Kagoshima : Japan
Taro Yashima (pseudonym for Jun Atsushi Iwamatsu) was born in Kagoshima, Japan on September 21, 1908.

After studying for three years at the Imperial Art Academy in Tokyo, he became a successful illustrator and cartoonist before going to jail because of his opposition to the militaristic government.

n 1939 he and his wife emigrated to America to study art, leaving their son Mako behind in Japan.


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