was a Japanese translator, best known for her translations of the works of modern Russian literature. She translated ''A Golden Cloudlet Was Sleeping'' by Anatoli Pristavkin (Japanese title ), ''The War Has Unfeminine Face'' and ''Zinc Boys'' by Svetlana Aleksiyevich and ''The Second Chechen War'' by

Anna Politkovskaya Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya (;, ; uk, Ганна Степанівна Політковська , 30 August 1958 – 7 October 2006) was a Russian journalist and human rights activist, who reported on political events in Russia, in partic ...

in particular. Miura also translated into Russian by Momoko Ishii. Miura was an opponent of Russian military intervention in Chechnya. Miura was born in

Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...

, and died of

rectal cancer Colorectal cancer (CRC), also known as bowel cancer, colon cancer, or rectal cancer, is the development of cancer from the colon or rectum (parts of the large intestine). Signs and symptoms may include blood in the stool, a change in bowel ...

on 13 December 2012, aged 64, at her home in Tokyo. She was survived by her husband .

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