Tomoko Sasaki
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| name = Tomoko Sasaki
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| office = {{flagicon|Japan}} Member of the House of Councillors
| term_start = July 1998
| term_end = July 2004
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|3|2}}
| birth_place = Hiroshima
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| party = Liberal Democratic Party
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| alma_mater = Kobe University
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| website = http://www.sasaki-law.com/
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{{Nihongo|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.{{cite web|url=http://www.e-campus.gr.jp/staffinfo/public/staff/detail/104|publisher=Teikyo University|accessdate=18 September 2011|script-title=ja:帝京大学 佐々木 知子|language=Japanese}}
Elected to the House of Councillors in 1998, Sasaki was engaged in introducing the Stalker Regulation Law of 2000.{{cite web|script-title=ja:参議院ってなんだろう(中) 良識の府|url=http://www2.asahi.com/2004senkyo/localnews/TKY200406200145.html|publisher=Asahi Shimbun|accessdate=18 September 2011|date= 17 June 2004|language=Japanese}} She served as the director of the Women's Affairs Division of the Liberal Democratic Party.{{cite web|script-title=ja:家裁関与の法案提出確認/夫婦別姓で自民推進派|url=http://www.shikoku-np.co.jp/national/political/article.aspx?id=20020628000622|work=The Shikoku Shimbun|accessdate=18 September 2011|date= 28 June 2002|language=Japanese}} She did not run for the election in 2004, but remains a member of the Party Ethics Committee of the LDP.{{cite web|script-title=ja:自由民主党 役員表|url=http://www.jimin.jp/member/officer/|publisher=The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan|accessdate=18 September 2011|language=Japanese}} She is a leading advocate of capital punishment in the party.{{cite web|last=Lane|first=Charles|title=Why Japan Still Has the Death Penalty|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11306-2005Jan15.html|work=The Washington Post|date=January 16, 2005|accessdate=18 September 2011}}
She set up a law firm in 2004 and became a professor of law at Teikyo University in 2005.
As a novelist
Sasaki has written some mystery novels under the pen name of {{Nihongo|Rei Matsuki|松木 麗|Matsuki Rei}}. She won the Seishi Yokomizo Prize for Koibumi in 1992.
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External links
- [http://www.sasaki-law.com/ 弁護士 佐々木知子法律事務所] {{in lang|ja}}
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Category:Women members of the House of Councillors (Japan)
Category:Members of the House of Councillors (Japan)
Category:Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) politicians
Category:Japanese mystery writers
Category:21st-century Japanese women writers
Category:Japanese women lawyers
Category:Scholars of criminal law
Category:Academic staff of Teikyo University
Category:People from Hiroshima
Category:Women mystery writers
Category:Kobe University alumni
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