Yōko Kamikawa

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Yōko Kamikawa
上川 陽子
Minister of Justice
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 September 2020
Prime Minister	Yoshihide Suga
Preceded by	Masako Mori
In office 3 August 2017 – 2 October 2018
Prime Minister	Shinzō Abe
Preceded by	Katsutoshi Kaneda
Succeeded by	Takashi Yamashita
In office 20 October 2014 – 7 October 2015
Prime Minister	Shinzō Abe
Preceded by	Midori Matsushima
Succeeded by	Mitsuhide Iwaki
Member of the House of Representatives
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 December 2012
Constituency	Shizuoka 1st district
In office 25 June 2000 – 30 August 2009
Preceded by	Yoshinori Oguchi
Succeeded by
Constituency	Shizuoka 1st district
Personal details
Born	(1953-03-01) 1 March 1953 (age 68) Shizuoka, Japan
Political party	Liberal Democratic Party
Education	University of Tokyo (BA) Harvard University (MPA)

Yōko Kamikawa (上川 陽子, Kamikawa Yōko, 1 March 1953), Japanese politician and former think-tank researcher, has been the Minister of Justice since September 2020. Kamikawa previously served as Minister of State for Gender Equality and Social Affairs in the cabinets of Shinzō Abe and Yasuo Fukuda. She has been a member of the House of Representatives since December 2012.

Born in the city of Shizuoka in Shizuoka Prefecture, she graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1977. In 1988 she received a master's degree in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in June 2000.

During her time in office, Kamikawa has ordered 16 executions, 13 of those executed being former members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult, whose acts of domestic terrorism included the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system. ^[1]

References[]

• "Minister of State for Regulatory Reform". Retrieved September 30, 2007.

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