Tomio Mizokami | |
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| 溝上富夫 | |
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| Born | 1941 Kobe, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Citizenship | Japan |
| Education | P. hd. |
| Alma mater | Delhi University |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Awards | Padma Shri (2018) |
Tomio Mizokami (Japanese: 溝上富夫;[1] born 1941[2]) is a professor Emeritus of Osaka University, Japan. In 2018, he was conferred the Padma Sri by the President of India, at the Civil Investiture Ceremony on 2 April 2018, for his contribution to the fields of literature and education.[3][4]
He was born in 1941 in Kobe, Japan.[2] In 1965, he graduated from the Department of Indian studies at Osaka University of Foreign Studies.[2] During 1965–1968, he studied Hindi in Allahabad and Bengali in Vishva Bharati.[2] He became a research assistant in 1968 at the Hindi Department of Osaka University of Foreign Studies.[2] In 1972, he earned his PhD from the Department of Modern Indian Languages at the University of Delhi.[2] In 1983, Mizokami did his PhD from University of Delhi on Language Contact in Punjab-A sociolinguistic Study of Migrants' Language.[3]
Between June and August 1994, he taught Punjabi at the University of California in Berkeley as part of their summer intensive course.[2] He retired as a professor of Indian languages at the Osaka University, Japan.[2] Post his retirement, he has been a professor Emeritus at the same university since 2007, teaching Foreign Studies.[2] His language proficiency includes English, Hindi, Punjabi, bengali, Urdu, Gujarati, Asamiya, Marathi,Kashmiri, Sindhi, Tamil, German, and French. He translated Japji Sahib, a Sikh prayer into Japanese, and he is the first Japanese-Punjabi researcher.[3][5]
In 2018, he was conferred the Padma Sri by then President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, at the Civil Investiture Ceremony on 2 April 2018 for his contribution to the fields of literature and education.[3]