is a Japanese female politician; the Japanese Diet member in 1946-1952, the first woman in history to have a baby while in office, in 1950. The next woman to do so is Hashimoto Seiko (2000). She was born in Tokyo

Tokyo

, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

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Sonoda Tenkoko is the widow of former Foreign Minister Sunao Sonoda. Hiroyuki Sonoda

Hiroyuki Sonoda

is a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. A native of Amakusa District, Kumamoto and graduate of Nihon University, he was elected for the first time in 1986...

 is a son-in-a-law. She held socialism at first, and belonged to the Japan Socialist Party (the Social Democratic Party Japan; SDPJ) and the Workers and Farmers Party (Maoism

Maoism

Maoism, also known as the Mao Zedong Thought , is claimed by Maoists as an anti-Revisionist form of Marxist communist theory, derived from the teachings of the Chinese political leader Mao Zedong . Developed during the 1950s and 1960s, it was widely applied as the political and military guiding...

) in the Diet, but changed her opinion by herself to be conservative after the marriage with Sunao.

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