Yuko Miyazaki
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Yuko Miyazaki is a lawyer and former justice of the Supreme Court of Japan, serving from 2018 to 2021.
She was born on 9 July 1951.[1] Miyazaki earned her legal education respectively from the University of Tokyo (Faculty of Law; 1976) and Harvard Law School (1984). In 1979, after having worked as a legal apprentice, Miyazaki registered with the Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association and began practicing as a taxation attorney.[2] In 1979, she was hired as a permanent attorney at the law firm Nagashima & Ohno.[3][4] She became legal counsel for the World Bank in 1984. Miyazaki also taught as a visiting professor at Tokyo University and Kyoto University.[2] In January 2018, she became the sixth female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan.[5][6][7] Miyazaki is noted as forgoing tradition and becoming the first justice to issue rulings under her maiden name.[6] Members of the Supreme Court have a mandatory retirement age of 70, so Miyazaki retired in 2021.[8]
She is appointed as International Judge of the Singapore International Commercial Court for the period of 5 January 2022 to 4 January 2024.[9]