*anese television announcer and presenter

Mona Yamamoto (山本 モナ, Yamamoto Mona, born February 11, 1976, Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, *an) is a *anese TV announcer and presenter. Her father is Norwegian and she became a naturalized *anese citizen at the age of 6.

After graduating from Gakushuin University, Mona joined the Asahi Broadcasting Corporation as an announcer. She presented the TV series Jack* in *an. In September 2006 she worked for five days on the Tokyo Broadcasting System news program News23 before stepping down due to a love affair with married Democratic Party of *an executive Goshi Hosono.

Returning to television in 2008 as an anchor for Fuji Television News she lost her job after visiting a love hotel with married sportsman Tomohiro Nioka of the Yomiuri Giants baseball team.

In 2010 she married the president of a real estate investment company. She briefly returned to entertainment in 2011 before announcing her retirement from public life.

References

External links

Media related to Mona Yamamoto at Wikimedia Commons

• "True Self", her blog