Michiko Inukai

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.

Inukai was the granddaughter of Prime Minister of Japan Tsuyoshi Inukai.

Her first book Ojosan Horoki was published in 1958, and she has since written essays about 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.

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Michiko Inukai Foundation  

Category:1921 births
Category:2017 deaths
Category:Writers from Tokyo
Category:Asian philanthropists
Category:Roman Catholics