was a
Japanese
Japanese may refer to:
* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
** Japanese diaspor ...
scholar and the founder of the Association for Aid and Relief.
She was born to
Yukio Ozaki
was a Japanese people, Japanese politician of Liberalism, liberal signature, born in modern-day Sagamihara, Kanagawa. Ozaki served in the House of Representatives of the Japanese Diet for 63 years (1890–1953). He is still revered in Japan as t ...
and
Yei Theodora Ozaki
O'Yei or ''Theodora'' was an early 20th-century translator of Japanese short stories and fairy tales. Her translations were fairly liberal but have been popular, and were reprinted several times after her death.
Biography
Ozaki was born in Lon ...
. Sohma became the first female qualified in
simultaneous translation in Japanese history.
[Kumiko Torika, 'Voices of the Invisible Presence: Diplomatic Interpreters in Post-World War II Japan,''John Benjamins Publishing, 2009 p. 135.] In 1979 she established the Association to Aid the
Indochinese Refugees, which in 1999 was renamed Association for Aid and Relief.
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1912 births
2008 deaths
Japanese activists
Japanese women activists
20th-century Japanese translators