Tenkoko Sonoda
Tenkoko Sonoda | |
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Sonoda in 1949 | |
Member of the House of Representatives | |
In office 1946–1947 | |
Constituency | Tokyo 2nd district |
In office 1947–1952 | |
Constituency | Tokyo 7th district |
Personal details | |
Born | 23 January 1919 Tokyo, Japan |
Died | 29 January 2015 Tokyo, Japan | (aged 96)
Tenkōkō Sonoda (園田 天光光, Sonoda Tenkōkō, 23 January 1919 – 29 January 2015)[1] was a Japanese politician who was a member of the Japanese Diet from 1946–1952. In 1950, she became the first woman in Japanese political history to have a baby while in office.[citation needed]
Biography
[edit]Sonoda was born in Tokyo on 23 January 1919.
Tenkoko Sonoda was the widow of Minister for Foreign Affairs Sunao Sonoda. She was the step-mother to Hiroyuki Sonoda. She was a socialist at first, and belonged to the Japan Socialist Party (the Social Democratic Party Japan; SDPJ) and the Workers and Farmers Party (Maoism) in the Diet, but changed her opinion by herself to be conservative after her marriage to Sunao.[citation needed]
She was a member of the representative committee of the openly revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi, to which her son-in-law Hiroyuki is also affiliated.[2]
Sonoda died on 29 January 2015 at the age of 96.
References
[edit]- ^ "女性初代議士 園田天光光さん死去 Nhkニュース". Archived from the original on 1 February 2015. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ^ Nippon Kaigi website
Sources
[edit]http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0XPQ/is_2000_April_17/ai_61968766
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- 2015 deaths
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