Yukika Sohma
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Yukika Sohma (相馬 雪香, Sōma Yukika, 1912 – November 8, 2008) was a Japanese scholar and the founder of the Association for Aid and Relief.
She was born to Yukio Ozaki and Yei Theodora Ozaki. Sohma became the first female qualified in simultaneous translation in Japanese history.[1] 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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- ^ Kumiko Torika, [Voices of the Invisible Presence: Diplomatic Interpreters in Post-World War II Japan,] John Benjamins Publishing, 2009 p. 135.
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- 1912 births
- 2008 deaths
- Japanese activists
- Japanese women activists
- 20th-century Japanese translators