https://barbie.mattel.com/en-us/about/role-models.html
今年、日本人としては初めて、大坂なおみと黒柳徹子*1がバービーのSheroに登録された。ただ、大坂なおみはともかくとして、黒柳さんは英語圏の一般読者にとっては〈知らない人〉なので、報道でも言及をオミットされていることが屡々のようだ；
leslie “Naomi Osaka, Yara Shahidi and More are New Barbie ‘Sheroes’” https://chicagocrusader.com/naomi-osaka-yara-shahidi-and-more-are-new-barbie-sheroes/
Sarah Young “Model Adwoa Aboah Turned into Barbie Doll to Celebrate International Women's Day” https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/adwoa-aboah-barbie-doll-international-womens-day-shero-a8809896.html
Kat Armstrong “Barbie’s Newest ‘Shero’ Dolls Honor Some of Our Favorite Fierce Women” https://news.yahoo.com/barbie-newest-shero-dolls-honor-201851375.html
Junko Hirabayashi “Naomi Osaka and Testuko Kuroyanagi become new Barbies” https://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/japanese/en/article/2019/03/08/naomi-osaka-and-testuko-kuroyanagi-are-new-barbies
Ellen Cranley “Barbie is celebrating the brand's 60th birthday by unveiling the most diverse doll collection in the brand's history” https://www.thisisinsider.com/barbie-60th-birthday-new-naomi-osaka-diverse-2019-3
伊吹早織*2「世界中の女の子のヒーローだから。黒柳徹子と大坂なおみのバービー人形が誕生」https://www.buzzfeed.com/jp/saoriibuki/naomi-tetsuko-barbie
Alanna Vagianos “Naomi Osaka On What Being A Biracial Barbie Means To Her” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/naomi-osaka-biracial-barbie-meaning_n_5c7d9536e4b0129e36bdd351
2018年には、フリーダ・カーロ*3やアメリア・エアハート*4も登録されているのだった；
Alanna Vagianos “Frida Kahlo And Other Historic Women Are Being Made Into Barbies” https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/amelia-earhart-frida-kahlo-katherine-johnson-barbies_us_5a9dac8ee4b089ec353dd02b
Mercedes Leguizamon and Saeed Ahmed “Barbie unveils dolls based on Amelia Earhart, Frida Kahlo, Katherine Johnson and Chloe Kim” https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/06/us/barbie-dolls-inspiring-women-trnd/index.html
*1:See also https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20081226/1230259822 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20131002/1380671844 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20141224/1419392127 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20150614/1434272471 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20160616/1466051809 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20160712/1468252761 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20160714/1468425431
*2:See also http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20170819/1503112438 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20170905/1504632406 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20171011/1507730436 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20180217/1518833671 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20180311/1520789627 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20180501/1525143180 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20180523/1527038546 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20180606/1528263017 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20180621/1529543754 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20180623/1529775411 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20180903/1535936713 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2019/02/01/101248 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2019/02/16/025039 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2019/02/28/142415
*3:See also https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20070814/1187112368 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20141103/1414979221 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20150325/1427261659
*4:http://www.ameliaearhart.com/ For her biography, see eg. http://www.ellensplace.net/eae_intr.html also http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20101206/1291659249 https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/20180310/1520610104
