# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yoshiko-uchida
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:54:46.226Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yoshiko-uchida"
name: "Yoshiko Uchida"
slug: "yoshiko-uchida"
description: "Yoshiko Uchida was a Japanese American writer of children's books intended to share Japanese and Japanese-American history and culture with Japanese American children. She is most known for her series of books, starting with Journey to Topaz (1971) that took place during the era of the mass removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. She also authored an adult memoir centering on her and her family's wartime internment, a young adult version of her life story, and a novel centering on a Japanese American family."
tagline: "Japanese American writer (1921–1992)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1921-11-24"
deathDate: "1992-06-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.350289333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A8%E3%82%B7%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%83%81%E3%83%80"
    title: "ヨシコ・ウチダ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88_%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "يوشيكو أوتشيدا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "يوشيكو اوتشيدا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiko_Uchida"
    title: "Yoshiko Uchida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiko_Uchida"
    title: "Yoshiko Uchida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiko_Uchida"
    title: "Yoshiko Uchida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiko_Uchida"
    title: "Yoshiko Uchida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2600969"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump