# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mika-yamamoto
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:19:11.358Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mika-yamamoto"
name: "Mika Yamamoto"
slug: "mika-yamamoto"
description: "Mika Yamamoto  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."
tagline: "Japanese journalist (1967–2012)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/21/Mika_Yamamoto.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1967-05-26"
deathDate: "2012-08-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.5
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.10250266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Mika Yamamoto"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump