| Tenkoko Sonoda | |
| Office: | Member of the House of Representatives |
| Term1: | 1946–1947 |
| Term2: | 1947–1952 |
| Constituency1: | Tokyo 2nd district |
| Constituency2: | Tokyo 7th district |
| Birth Date: | 23 January 1919 |
| Birth Place: | Tokyo, Japan |
| Death Place: | Tokyo, Japan |
[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.
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. 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.
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.
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