Tomoko Sasaki

Tomoko Sasaki (佐々木 知子, Sasaki Tomoko, born 2 March 1955) is a Japanese lawyer, politician, novelist and former prosecutor.

Tomoko Sasaki
Member of the House of Councillors
In office
July 1998 – July 2004
Personal details
Born (1955-03-02) March 2, 1955
Hiroshima
Political partyLiberal Democratic Party
Alma materKobe University
Websitehttp://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]

References
  1. 帝京大学　佐々木　知子 (in Japanese). Teikyo University. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
  2. 参議院ってなんだろう（中）　良識の府 (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. 17 June 2004. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
  3. 家裁関与の法案提出確認／夫婦別姓で自民推進派. The Shikoku Shimbun (in Japanese). 28 June 2002. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
  4. 自由民主党 役員表 (in Japanese). The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
  5. Lane, Charles (January 16, 2005). "Why Japan Still Has the Death Penalty". The Washington Post. Retrieved 18 September 2011.


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