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Updated at 12:19 p.m., Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Hanauma Bay victim was top labor lawyer from Japan

By Alyssa S. Navares
Advertiser Staff Writer

The 71-year-old Tokyo woman who died Sunday at Straub Clinic & Hospital after being brought to shore by lifeguards at Hanauma Bay was among Japan's top feminist labor lawyers, Counsel General Makoto Hinei of the Honolulu Japanese Embassy said today.

Michiko Nakajima had led a group of lawyers that support working women and specialized in labor law. She also served as chairwoman of a women's rights committee, Hinei said.

Lifeguards performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Nakajima, who had been snorkeling at Hanauma Bay, officials said. Honolulu police classified the case as an unattended death pending an autopsy.