# Michiko Inukai

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| name = Michiko Inukai
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| birth_date = {{birth date |1921|4|20|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [Yotsuya](/source/Yotsuya), [Tokyo](/source/Tokyo)
| death_date = {{death date and age|2017|7|24|1921|4|20|df=yes}}
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| occupation = [Author](/source/Author)
| period = 1958–2006
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| spouse = {{marriage|Jorge Arantes|1992|1995}}{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}<br />{{marriage|Neil Murray|2001|2017}}{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}
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| parents = [Takeru Inukai](/source/Takeru_Inukai) (father)
| relatives = [Tsuyoshi Inukai](/source/Tsuyoshi_Inukai) (grandfather)<br/> [Kazu Ando](/source/Kazu_Ando) (half-sister)<br/> [Sadako Ogata](/source/Sadako_Ogata) (cousin)
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{{nihongo|'''Michiko Inukai'''|犬養 道子|Inukai Michiko|20 April 1921 – 24 July 2017}} was a [Japanese](/source/Japanese_people) [Roman Catholic](/source/Catholic_Church) [author](/source/author) and [philanthropist](/source/philanthropist). She was the founder of the Michiko Inukai Foundation, which provides financial aid for [refugees](/source/refugees) seeking education.

== Biography ==
Michiko Inukai was born in [Yotsuya](/source/Yotsuya), [Tokyo](/source/Tokyo), the eldest daughter of a politician [Takeru Inukai](/source/Takeru_Inukai) and his wife Nakako. Her paternal grandfather was [Prime Minister](/source/Prime_Minister_of_Japan) [Tsuyoshi Inukai](/source/Tsuyoshi_Inukai). She had a younger brother [Yasuhiko Inukai](/source/Yasuhiko_Inukai), a journalist who later became president of [Kyodo News](/source/Kyodo_News),<ref name="The Japan Times">{{Cite web|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/24/national/michiko-inukai-author-philanthropist-granddaughter-former-pm-dies-96/ |title=Michiko Inukai, author, philanthropist and granddaughter of former PM, dies at 96 |work= [The Japan Times](/source/The_Japan_Times)|date=2017-07-24 |accessdate=2022-12-28}}</ref> and a half-sister [Kazu Ando](/source/Kazu_Ando), an essayist. [Sadako Ogata](/source/Sadako_Ogata), [UN High Commissioner for Refugees](/source/UN_High_Commissioner_for_Refugees), is Michiko's first cousin once removed.

Having graduated from [Gakushuin Girls' School](/source/Gakushuin_Girls'_School) and [Tsuda College](/source/Tsuda_College), Michiko Inukai went to study philosophy in [Boston](/source/Boston), [Massachusetts](/source/Massachusetts) in 1948. In 1959, she was sent to [Europe](/source/Europe) as a correspondent for [Chuokoronsha](/source/Chuokoronsha).

Her first book ''Ojosan Horoki'' was published in 1958,<ref name="The Japan Times"/> and she has since written essays about the [Bible](/source/Bible) and [Christianity](/source/Christianity). 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](/source/internally_displaced_people) in collaboration with the [Jesuit Refugee Service](/source/Jesuit_Refugee_Service). The foundation also manages a computer school in [Romania](/source/Romania).

== 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 ==
*{{Cite news|script-title=ja:犬養道子基金とは|language=Japanese|date=2007-05-02|work=[Yomiuri Shimbun](/source/Yomiuri_Shimbun) morning edition|page=15|url=http://plus.yomiuri.co.jp/article/words/%E7%8A%AC%E9%A4%8A%E9%81%93%E5%AD%90%E5%9F%BA%E9%87%91|accessdate=2009-01-13|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722101618/http://plus.yomiuri.co.jp/article/words/%E7%8A%AC%E9%A4%8A%E9%81%93%E5%AD%90%E5%9F%BA%E9%87%91|archivedate=2011-07-22}}
*{{Cite web|script-title=ja:秋期キリスト教教育強調週間特別講演会|language=Japanese|year=2002|publisher=[Rakuno Gakuen University](/source/Rakuno_Gakuen_University)|url=http://www.rakuno.ac.jp/news/200210/news13.htm|accessdate=2009-01-13|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091121154808/http://www.rakuno.ac.jp/news/200210/news13.htm|archivedate=2009-11-21}}

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== External links ==
*[http://www.inukai-kikin.jp/ Michiko Inukai Foundation] {{in lang|ja}}

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