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Tomio Mizokami
Tomio Mizokami (Japanese: 溝上富夫; born 1941) 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.
He was born in 1941 in Kobe, Japan. In 1965, he graduated from the Department of Indian studies at Osaka University of Foreign Studies. During 1965–1968, he studied Hindi in Allahabad and Bengali in Vishva Bharati. He became a research assistant in 1968 at the Hindi Department of Osaka University of Foreign Studies. In 1972, he earned his PhD from the Department of Modern Indian Languages at the University of Delhi. In 1983, Mizokami did his PhD from University of Delhi on Language Contact in Punjab-A sociolinguistic Study of Migrants' Language.
Between June and August 1994, he taught Punjabi at the University of California in Berkeley as part of their summer intensive course. He retired as a professor of Indian languages at the Osaka University, Japan. Post his retirement, he has been a professor Emeritus at the same university since 2007, teaching Foreign Studies. 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. His Japji Sahib translation was published in 1987 in the Journal of Osaka University of Foreign Studies. In April 2026, Jvala Singh digitized Mizokami's Japji Sahib translation.
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.
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Tomio Mizokami
Tomio Mizokami (Japanese: 溝上富夫; born 1941) 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.
He was born in 1941 in Kobe, Japan. In 1965, he graduated from the Department of Indian studies at Osaka University of Foreign Studies. During 1965–1968, he studied Hindi in Allahabad and Bengali in Vishva Bharati. He became a research assistant in 1968 at the Hindi Department of Osaka University of Foreign Studies. In 1972, he earned his PhD from the Department of Modern Indian Languages at the University of Delhi. In 1983, Mizokami did his PhD from University of Delhi on Language Contact in Punjab-A sociolinguistic Study of Migrants' Language.
Between June and August 1994, he taught Punjabi at the University of California in Berkeley as part of their summer intensive course. He retired as a professor of Indian languages at the Osaka University, Japan. Post his retirement, he has been a professor Emeritus at the same university since 2007, teaching Foreign Studies. 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. His Japji Sahib translation was published in 1987 in the Journal of Osaka University of Foreign Studies. In April 2026, Jvala Singh digitized Mizokami's Japji Sahib translation.
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.