Michiko Inukai

Michiko Inukai (犬養 道子, Inukai Michiko, 20 April 1921 – 24 July 2017) was a Japanese Roman Catholic author and philanthropist. She was the founder of the Michiko Inukai Foundation, which provides financial aid for refugees seeking education.

Michiko Inukai was born in Yotsuya, Tokyo, the eldest daughter of a politician Takeru Inukai and his wife Nakako. Her paternal grandfather was Prime Minister Tsuyoshi Inukai. She had a younger brother Yasuhiko Inukai, a journalist who later became president of Kyodo News,^[1] and a half-sister Kazu Ando, an essayist. Sadako Ogata, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, is Michiko's first cousin once removed.

Having graduated from Gakushuin Girls' School and Tsuda College, Michiko Inukai went to study philosophy in Boston, Massachusetts in 1948. In 1959, she was sent to Europe as a correspondent for Chuokoronsha.

Her first book Ojosan Horoki was published in 1958,^[1] and she has since written essays about the Bible and 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 in collaboration with the Jesuit Refugee Service. The foundation also manages a computer school in Romania.

• 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

• 犬養道子基金とは. Yomiuri Shimbun morning edition (in Japanese). 2007年05月02日. p. 15. Archived from the original on 2011年07月22日. Retrieved 2009年01月13日.
• 秋期キリスト教教育強調週間特別講演会 (in Japanese). Rakuno Gakuen University. 2002. Archived from the original on 2009年11月21日. Retrieved 2009年01月13日.

• Michiko Inukai Foundation (in Japanese)

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