Yoshiko Yamaguchi

Yoshiko Yamaguchi ?? ?? Yamaguchi Yoshiko February 12 1920 September 7 2014 also known by her stage names Shirley Yamaguchi and Li Xianglan is a Chinaborn Japanese actress and singer who made a career in China Japan Hong Kong and the United States She was elected as a member of the Japanese Parliament in the 1970s and served for 18 years Early in her career the Manchukuo Film Association concealed her Japanese origin and she went by the Chinese name Li Hsianglan ??? rendered in Japanese as Ri K?ran This allowed her to represent China in Japanese propaganda movies After the war she appeared in Japanese movies under her real name as well as in several English language movies under the stage name Shirley Yamaguchi After becoming a journalist in the 1950s under the name Yoshiko ?taka ?? ?? ?taka Yoshiko she was elected as a member of the Japanese parliament in 1974 and served for 18 years After retiring from politics she served as vice president of the Asian Womens Fund She died at the age of 94 in Tokyo on September 7 2014