:Midori Miura

{{Short description|Japanese translator}}

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| name = Midori Miura

| native_name = {{Nihongo2|三浦 みどり}}

| native_name_lang = jpn

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| birth_date = 1947

| birth_place = Tokyo

| death_date = 13 December 2012 (aged 64)

| death_place = Tokyo

| nationality = Japanese

| other_names = Midori Okui

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| occupation = Translator

| spouse = Kyotaro Okui

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{{Nihongo|Midori Miura|三浦 みどり|Miura Midori|1947 – 13 December 2012|(real name {{Nihongo|Midori Okui|奥井 みどり|Okui Midori}})}} 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 (Japanese title {{Nihongo2|コーカサスの金色の雲}}), 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 {{Nihongo||ノンちゃん雲に乗る|Non-chan Kumo ni Noru}} by Momoko Ishii.

Miura was an opponent of Russian military intervention in Chechnya.{{cite web| url =http://www.chechenews.com/world-news/breaking/10177-1.html| script-title =ru:ОПД "Свободный Кавказ" выразило соболезнование в связи с кончиной Мидори Миура| publisher =Chechen News| language =Russian| date =14 December 2012| accessdate =16 December 2012| url-status =dead| archiveurl =https://web.archive.org/web/20121216070556/http://www.chechenews.com/world-news/breaking/10177-1.html| archivedate =16 December 2012}}

Miura was born in Tokyo, and died of rectal cancer on 13 December 2012, aged 64, at her home in Tokyo.{{cite web|url= http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/national/obituaries/CK2012121402000263.html|script-title= ja:おくやみ： 三浦 みどりさん ロシア文学翻訳家|trans-title= Obituary: Midori Miura – translator of Russian literature|date= 14 December 2012|work= Tokyo Shimbun Web|publisher= The Chunichi Shimbun|location= Japan|language= Japanese|archiveurl= https://archive.today/20130218203734/http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/national/obituaries/CK2012121402000263.html|archivedate= 18 February 2013|accessdate= 17 December 2012|url-status= dead}}