About Toshiko Karasawa
Lived 1911 – 2013 (aged 102). Toshiko Karasawa was a Japanese politician.
Toshiko Karasawa (; 7 May 1911 – 2 December 2013) was a Japanese politician for the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) and labor activist. Born in Sapporo on the island Hokkaido, Karasawa graduated from Sapporo Kita High School in 1929, and served two terms as a representative for her party for the House of Representatives, in 1946 and 1949, before retiring soon after. Karasawa died of natural causes on 2 December 2013, aged 102, at a health care facility in Toyama, Toyama.
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Japanese politician and labor activist
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Toshiko Karasawa was born on 7 May 1911 in Sapporo.
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