Taro yashima biography
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Taro Yashima was a Japanese-American artist and children's book author.
Taro Yashima
Japanese-American political dissident, artist, and children's book author
Taro Yashima (八島 太郎, Yashima Tarō, born Atsushi Iwamatsu (岩松 淳, Iwamatsu Atsushi); September 21, 1908 — June 30, 1994) was a Japanese-American artist and children's book author.
He immigrated to the United States in 1939 and assisted the U.S. war effort.[2]
Early life
Iwamatsu was born September 21, 1908, in Nejime, Kimotsuki District, Kagoshima, and raised there on the southern coast of Kyushu.
His father was a country doctor who collected oriental art and encouraged art in his son.[3] He graduated from Kagoshima Prefectural Daini-Kagoshima Middle School (now Kagoshima Prefectural Konan High School).[4]
After studying for three years at Tokyo Fine Arts School (now the Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts), Iwamatsu was expelled for insubordination and for missing a military drill.[4][5] He then joined a group of prog