Ryuko Sakurai

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Ryuko Sakurai (桜井 龍子, Sakurai Ryūko, born January 16, 1947) was a member of the Supreme Court of Japan. She joined on September 11, 2008.[1]

Sakurai, a former bureaucrat of the , replaced Kazuko Yokoo, who resigned. She was the third woman to take a post in the Supreme Court of Japan.[2]

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  1. ^ "Ryuko Sakurai Archived 2010-03-30 at the Wayback Machine." Supreme Court of Japan. Accessed November 2, 2008.
  2. ^ "Sakurai to be Supreme Court justice." Japan Today. September 7, 2008.


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