Tomoko Yoshida (吉田 知子, real name Tomoko Kira 吉良 知子; Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture February 6, 1934) is a Japanese writer.
Yoshida grew up in Shinkyō (currently Changchun), the capital of Manchukuo, in Manchuria.
[1] Her father was a professional soldier who was taken to the USSR by Soviet troops at the close of World War II in 1945.
Her mother brought her back to Japan, where Yoshida studied economics at Nagoya Municipal Junior Two-Year College for Women.
She graduated in 1954 and worked as a high school teacher in Hamamatsu until 1960.