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"Li Xiang Lan: The Story of Yoshiko Yamaguchi"

Eric Lowe presents his new biography on the Chinese-born Japanese actress and politician.

Singer, propaganda film star and politician Yoshiko Yamaguchi, who died in 2014 aged 94, walked the line between the China of her birth and the Japan of her ancestry; accused of collaboration with the Japanese, the actress whose stage name was Li Xian Lan took her performing talents to Japan, Hollywood, Broadway and Hong Kong. Later in life, Yamaguchi worked as a television journalist covering Palestine and Vietnam War before serving 18 years in the Japanese parliament.