was a
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Roman Catholic
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author
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and
philanthropist
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. She was the founder of the Michiko Inukai Foundation, which provides financial aid for
refugees
A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a displaced person who has crossed national borders and who cannot or is unwilling to return home due to well-founded fear of persecution. seeking education.
Biography
Michiko Inukai was born in
Yotsuya
is a neighborhood in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.
It is a former ward (四谷区 ''Yotsuya-ku'') in the now-defunct Tokyo City. In 1947, when the 35 wards of Tokyo were reorganized into 23, it was merged with Ushigome ward of Tokyo City and Yodobas ...
,
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...
, the eldest daughter of a politician
Takeru Inukai
was a Japanese politician and novelist active in Shōwa period Japan. Also known as "Inukai Ken", he was the third son of Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi.
Biography
Inukai was born in the Ushigome district of Tokyo. Although accepted ...
and his wife Nakako. Her paternal grandfather was
Prime Minister
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Tsuyoshi Inukai
Inukai Tsuyoshi ( ja, 犬養 毅, 4 June 1855 – 15 May 1932) was a Japanese politician, cabinet minister, and Prime Minister of Japan from 1931 to his assassination in 1932. Inukai was Japan's second oldest prime minister while serving, as he ...
. She had a younger brother
Yasuhiko Inukai
Yasuhiko is both a masculine Japanese given name and a Japanese surname.
Possible writings
Yasuhiko can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples:
*康彦, "healthy, elegant boy"
*康比古, "healthy, you ...
, a journalist who later became president of
Kyodo News
is a nonprofit cooperative news agency based in Minato, Tokyo. It was established in November 1945 and it distributes news to almost all newspapers, and radio and television networks in Japan. The newspapers using its news have about 50 millio ...
,
and a half-sister
Kazu Ando, an essayist.
Sadako Ogata
, was a Japanese academic, diplomat, author, administrator, and professor emerita at the Roman Catholic Sophia University. She was widely known as the head of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from 1991 to ...
,
UN High Commissioner for Refugees
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, is Michiko's first cousin once removed.
Having graduated from
Gakushuin Girls' School and
Tsuda College
is a private women's university based at Kodaira, Tokyo. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious higher educational institutions for women in Japan, contributing to the advancement of women in society for more than a century.
History
The u ...
, Michiko Inukai went to study philosophy in
Boston
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,
in 1948. In 1959, she was sent to
Europe
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as a correspondent for
Chuokoronsha
is a Japanese publisher. It was established in 1886, under the name . In 1999, it was acquired by The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings, and its name was subsequently changed to Chūōkōron-shinsha.
Profile
The company publishes a wide variety of mater ...
.
Her first book ''Ojosan Horoki'' was published in 1958,
and she has since written essays about the
Bible
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and
Christianity
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. Her bestseller ''Hanabana to Hoshiboshi to'' was featured in a TV drama in 1978.
Inukai started charity in 1979. In 1983, she founded the Michiko Inukai Foundation to provide aid for refugees and
internally displaced people
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A ...
in collaboration with the
Jesuit Refugee Service
The Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) is an international Catholic organisation with a mission to accompany, serve, and advocate on behalf of refugees and other forcibly displaced persons, that they may heal, learn, and determine their own future. Fou ...
. The foundation also manages a computer school in
Romania
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.
Works
*''Ojosan Horoki'', 1958
*''Onna ga Soto ni Deru Toki'', 1964
*''Watashi no Amerika'' (My America), 1966
*''Hanabana to Hoshiboshi to'', 1970
*''Shin'yaku Seisho Monogatari'' (New Testament Stories), 1976
*''Kyuyaku Seisho Monogatari'' (Old Testament Stories), 1977
*''Kawaku Daichi - Ningen no Daichi'', 1989
*''Aru Rekishi no Musume'', 1995
*''Seisho o Tabisuru'', 1996
*''Josei e no Junana no Tegami'' (Seventeen Letters for Women), 1998
*''Mirai kara no Kako'', 2001
*''Kokoro no Zahyojiku'', 2006
References
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Foototes
External links
Michiko Inukai Foundation
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1921 births
2017 deaths
Japanese philanthropists
Japanese Roman Catholics
Roman Catholic writers
Writers from Tokyo
Tsuda University alumni
Michiko
20th-century Japanese women writers
20th-century Japanese writers
21st-century Japanese women writers
21st-century Japanese writers
20th-century philanthropists