Midori Miura

Midori Miura was a Japanese translator, best known for her translations of the works of modern Russian literature. She translated A Golden Cloudlet Was Sleeping by Anatoli Pristavkin, The War Has Unfeminine Face and Zinc Boys by Svetlana Aleksiyevich and The Second Chechen War by Anna Politkovskaya in particular. Miura also translated into Russian by Momoko Ishii.
Miura was an opponent of Russian military intervention in Chechnya.
Miura was born in Tokyo, and died of rectal cancer on 13 December 2012, aged 64, at her home in Tokyo.