Education
Born in Yamanashi Prefecture, Nakamaru studied abroad at Columbia University.
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Kaoru Nakamaru
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Career
While beginning to write articles and books on international relations, she hosted a number of nationally broadcast television interview series, including Sekai no Shuyaku (世界の主役) in 1972. The magazine Newsweek nicknamed her "the Edward R. Murrow of Japan" in a 1974 profile that introduced her alongside Makiko Tanaka as one of a "handful of Japanese women who have bucked their country"s patriarchal system". The profile itself was news in Japan.
During her career, she has interviewed such world figures as Edward M. Kennedy, the Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and Idi Amin.
Nakamaru asserts that she is the granddaughter of the Emperor Meiji. These claims have been disputed in a Korean newspaper article.
Nakamaru was married to the film and television actor Tadao Nakamaru, who died on 23 April 2009.
