Koniko Yamamura, narrator of “Immigrant from the Land of the Sun”, dies

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Saba Babai
She shot to fame after her 19-year-old son Mohammad Babai joined Iranian soldiers during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war and was martyred in
2020.The book has been translated into Arabic, Turkish, Russian, Urdu and Pashtu.Japanese Ambassador Kazutoshi Aikawa and a number of his
Saba after she married an Iranian Muslim in Japan and moved to Iran afterwards, where her life was totally changed after her 19-year-old son
a book, because if I were living in Japan with my parents, I would have had a typical life, but marrying an Iranian Muslim changed my life
he met Yamamura in 2014 during a visit to Hiroshima along with a number of Iranian cineastes, authors and war veterans who attended the
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony.The ceremony is held annually to commemorate the anniversary of the tragedy of the U.S
in Iraqi chemical attacks as she was in tears
A file photo shows Koniko Yamamura posing with a picture of her son Mohammad Babai who was martyred during the Iran-Iraq war.MMS/YAW