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Yoko Soumi

Japanese actress and voice actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ1067105 ↗
Source-derived summary

Yoko Soumi (沢海 陽子, Soumi Yōko; born May 31, 1962) is a Japanese actress and voice actress associated with Kakehi Production (formerly Mausu Promotion). She was born in Niigata Prefecture. She and fellow voice actor Akio Ōtsuka married on February 11, 2005, but they divorced three years later.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Yoko Soumi” as japanese actress and voice actress. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1962, 2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1962-05-31. The account is most persuasive where Yoko, Soumi and Japanese can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as japanese actress and voice actress. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1067105. VIAF identifies the subject as 76614593. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1962 and 2005.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Locating cited institutions
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Questions for further research

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  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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This entry incorporates text from “Yoko Soumi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.