Yukika Sohma
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Yukika Sohma (相馬 雪香, Sōma Yukika, 1912 – November 8, 2008) was a Japanese peace activist and scholar who founded the Association for Aid and Relief.
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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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