was a Japanese translator, best known for her translations of the works of modern

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. She translated ''A Golden Cloudlet Was Sleeping'' by Anatoli Pristavkin (Japanese title ), ''The War Has Unfeminine Face'' and ''Zinc Boys'' by

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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

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. Miura was born in Tokyo, and died of rectal cancer on 13 December 2012, aged 64, at her home in Tokyo. She was survived by her husband .

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