Shoko Yamaguchi (born 1940) is a Japanese journalist specializing in France and Europe. After graduating from Keio University, she studied journalism in Paris on a French government scholarship before joining Sankei Shimbun. She served as the newspaper's Paris bureau chief for 21 years, reporting extensively on French politics, diplomacy, culture, and society. A recipient of the Vaughn-Uyeda Memorial International Journalistic Award and France's Legion of Honour, she is the author of The Truth About Coco Chanel, Fukuzawa Yukichi in Paris, De Gaulle's France, and Three Hundred Years of French History Through the Élysée Palace. Through decades of on-the-ground reporting, she has offered Japanese readers insightful perspectives on France and its place in the modern world.