Tomoko Sasaki
Members of the House of Councillors
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Tomoko Sasaki (佐々木 知子, Sasaki Tomoko; born 2 March 1955) is a Japanese lawyer, politician, novelist and former prosecutor.
Tomoko Sasaki | |
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佐々木 知子 | |
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| Member of the House of Councillors | |
| In office 26 July 1998 – 25 July 2004 | |
| Constituency | National PR |
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| Born | 2 March 1955 Hiroshima, Japan |
| Party | Liberal Democratic |
| Education | Kobe University |
| Website | http://www.sasaki-law.com/ |
She became a prosecutor in 1983, and worked at the United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders from 1993 to 1996.[1]
Elected to the House of Councillors in 1998, Sasaki was engaged in introducing the Stalker Regulation Law of 2000.[2] She served as the director of the Women's Affairs Division of the Liberal Democratic Party.[3] She did not run for the election in 2004, but remains a member of the Party Ethics Committee of the LDP.[2][4] She is a leading advocate of capital punishment in the party.[5]
She set up a law firm in 2004 and became a professor of law at Teikyo University in 2005.[1]
As a novelist
Sasaki has written some mystery novels under the pen name of Rei Matsuki (松木 麗, Matsuki Rei).[2] She won the Seishi Yokomizo Prize for Koibumi in 1992.[2]
