Tenkoko Sonoda
Japanese politician (1919–2015)
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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]
Tokyo 7th (1947–1952)
Tenkoko Sonoda | |
|---|---|
園田 天光光 | |
Sonoda in 1949 | |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 10 April 1946 – 28 August 1952 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Takaichi Nakamura |
| Constituency | Tokyo 2nd (1946–1947) Tokyo 7th (1947–1952) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 January 1919 |
| Died | 29 January 2015 (aged 96) Tokyo, Japan |
| Party | Liberal Democratic |
Other political affiliations | JSP (1946–1948) LFP (1948–1952) Kaishintō (1952–1954) JDP (1954–1955) |
| Spouse | Sunao Sonoda |
| Children | Hiroyuki Sonoda (stepson) |
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.
Political career
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.
