Early Life
Takamasa Yoshizaka was the first-born son of Toshizo and Hanako Yoshizaka. He was born in Koishikawa in Tokyo. In 1921 he and his family left for Geneva where his father was an official for the Japanese government setting up the International Labour Organisation. They returned to Japan in 1923 and moved to Hyakunin-cho in Shinjuku, Tokyo.
After entering Waseda University Architecture Department in 1938 he graduated in 1943 before being drafted into the army. On returning from the war he went to live again in Shinjuku but built himself a house as the previous one had been burnt down in American bombing on the 25 May 1945.
In 1950 he accepted a French Government grant to work and study architecture in France where he enjoyed two years working at Le Corbusier's atelier in Paris.
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