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Tomoko Sasaki 
Member of the House of CouncillorsIn office
July 1998 – July 2004Personal details Born March 2, 1955
HiroshimaPolitical party Liberal Democratic Party Alma mater Kobe University Website http://www.sasaki-law.com/ Tomoko Sasaki (佐々木 知子 Sasaki Tomoko, born 2 March 1955) is a Japanese lawyer, politician, novelist and former prosecutor.
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]
References
- ^ a b "帝京大学 佐々木 知子" (in Japanese). Teikyo University. http://www.e-campus.gr.jp/staffinfo/public/staff/detail/104. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ a b c d "参議院ってなんだろう（中） 良識の府" (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. 17 June 2004. http://www2.asahi.com/2004senkyo/localnews/TKY200406200145.html. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ "家裁関与の法案提出確認／夫婦別姓で自民推進派" (in Japanese). The Shikoku Shimbun. 28 June 2002. http://www.shikoku-np.co.jp/national/political/article.aspx?id=20020628000622. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ "自由民主党 役員表" (in Japanese). The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan. http://www.jimin.jp/member/officer/. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ Lane, Charles (Sunday, January 16, 2005). "Why Japan Still Has the Death Penalty". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11306-2005Jan15.html. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
External links
- 弁護士 佐々木知子法律事務所 (Japanese)
Categories:- Female members of the House of Councillors
- Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians
- Japanese mystery writers
- Japanese women writers
- Japanese women lawyers
- Japanese prosecutors
- Scholars of criminal law
- Teikyo University faculty
- People from Hiroshima (city)
- 1955 births
- Living people
- Japanese politician, 1950s birth stubs
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