Yoshiko Kawashima

Deceased Person

1907 – 1948

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Who was Yoshiko Kawashima?

Yoshiko Kawashima was a Manchu princess brought up in Japan, who served as a spy in the service of the Japanese Kwantung Army and Manchukuo during the Second World War. Originally named Aisin Gioro Xianyu with the courtesy name Dongzhen, her Chinese name was Jin Bihui. She is sometimes known in fiction by the pseudonym as the "Eastern Mata Hari”. She was executed as a traitor by the Kuomintang after the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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Born
May 24, 1907
Beijing
Ethnicity
  • Manchu people
Died
Mar 25, 1948

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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