Miki Sawada

Japanese: 沢田美喜 - さわだみき
Miki Sawada

Social worker. Founder of the Elizabeth Sanders Home (a home for mixed race children, currently an orphanage). Born in Hongo, Tokyo, as the eldest daughter of Mitsubishi's head Iwasaki Hisaya. Dropped out of Ochanomizu Girls' Higher Normal School. At the age of 22, she married diplomat Sawada Renzo (1888-1970) (later the first UN ambassador) and lived abroad. She saw an orphanage in London and became interested in social work. In February 1948, she bought back the Iwasaki villa in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, from the government and opened a home on her own. In the chaos following the Second World War, she worked hard to help mixed race children in Japan. She also promoted adoptions with foreigners, making use of her international connections. In 1953, she founded St. Stephen's School for the orphans at the home. In 1964, she also opened Santo Stephen Farm in the state of Para, Brazil, for the settlement of mixed-race children (which she sold in 1975 for financial reasons). Her path of applying her Catholic faith to welfare practices for mixed-race children embodied an era. In 1960, she received the Elizabeth Blackwell Award, given to women from around the world who have contributed to humanitarianism, and in 1962, the Asahi Prize (Community Service Award). Her works include Black Skin, White Heart: The Road to Sanders Home. She died on May 12, 1980, while traveling on the island of Mallorca, Spain.

[Jouji Ogura]

"Mother of Mixed-race Children -- Elizabeth Sanders Home," by Sawada Miki (1953, Mainichi Shimbun)""Black Skin and White Heart -- The Road to Sanders Home," by Sawada Miki (1963, Nihon Keizai Shimbun)""Nippon Television, 'The Children Crossed the Seven Seas -- Elizabeth Sanders Home' (1979, Nippon Television Network Corporation) " ▽ "The Bond Between Mother and Child -- Thirty Years at Elizabeth Sanders Home," by Sawada Miki (1980, PHP Institute)""This is Your Mother -- Sawada Miki and the Mixed-race Orphans," by Kosakai Sumi (1982, Shueisha)"

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Japanese:

社会事業家。エリザベス・サンダース・ホーム(混血児養育施設、現在は児童養護施設)の創設者。三菱(みつびし)本家岩崎久弥(ひさや)の長女として東京・本郷に生まれる。お茶の水女高師中等部中退。22歳で外交官沢田廉三(れんぞう)(1888―1970)(のち初代国連大使)と結婚して海外生活を送り、ロンドンで孤児院をみて社会事業に関心をもつ。1948年(昭和23)2月、神奈川県大磯(おおいそ)町の岩崎別邸を政府から買い戻し、自力でホームを開設。第二次世界大戦後の混乱のなかで日本における混血児の救済に奔走した。国際的な人脈を生かして海外との養子縁組も進めた。1953年にホームの孤児のため聖ステパノ学園を創立。1964年にはブラジル、パラ州に混血児入植のための聖ステパノ農園をも開設した(財政上の理由で1975年手放す)。カトリック信仰を混血児への福祉実践のなかに生かした軌跡は一つの時代を体現していた。1960年、人道主義に貢献した全世界の女性のなかから選ばれるエリザベス・ブラックウェル賞、1962年度朝日賞(社会奉仕賞)を受賞。『黒い肌と白い心――サンダース・ホームへの道』などの著作がある。1980年5月12日旅行先のスペイン、マジョルカ島で死去。

[小倉襄二]

『沢田美喜著『混血児の母――エリザベス・サンダース・ホーム』(1953・毎日新聞社)』『沢田美喜著『黒い肌と白い心――サンダース・ホームへの道』(1963・日本経済新聞社)』『日本テレビ編『子供たちは七つの海を越えた――エリザベス・サンダース・ホーム』(1979・日本テレビ放送網)』『沢田美喜著『母と子の絆――エリザベス・サンダース・ホームの三十年』(1980・PHP研究所)』『小坂井澄著『これはあなたの母――沢田美喜と混血孤児たち』(1982・集英社)』

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