Tenkoko Sonoda

Tenkoko Sonoda
Tenkoko Sonoda
	Tokyo 7th district
Personal details
Born	23 January 1919; Tokyo, Japan
Died	29 January 2015 (aged 96); Tokyo, Japan

Tenkōkō Sonoda (園田天光光, Sonoda Tenkōkō, 23 January 1919 – 29 January 2015)

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}

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Biography

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

^ "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

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0XPQ/is_2000_April_17/ai_61968766

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[1] "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.

[2] Nippon Kaigi website

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