On this day, 7 December 1896, Japanese translator, feminist, socialist and lesbian Yuasa Yoshiko (湯浅 芳子) was born in Kyoto. She was an early supporter of the women’s rights movement in the country, and became involved in the left-wing, Tyrian literature movement. With the leading female proletarian author Chūjō Yuriko she travelled to the Soviet Union for three years, studying Russian language and literature, and developed a friendship with film director Sergei Eisenstein. She translated a significant number of Russian works into Japanese. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1285386821646465/?type=3