Yuko Miyazaki

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Yuko Miyazaki is a lawyer and Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan.

She was born on 9 July 1951.[1] Miyazaki earned her legal education respectively from the University of Tokyo (Faculty of Law; 1976) and Harvard Law School (1984). In 1979, after having worked as a legal apprentice, Miyazaki registered with the Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association and began practicing as a taxation attorney.[2] In 1979, she was hired as a permanent attorney at the law firm Nagashima & Ohno.[3][4] She became legal counsel for the World Bank in 1984. Miyazaki also taught as a visiting professor at Tokyo University and Kyoto University.[2] In January 2018, she became the sixth female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan.[5][6][7] Miyazaki is noted as foregoing tradition and becoming the first justice to issue rulings under her maiden name.[6] She is appointed as International Judge of the Singapore International Commercial Court for the period of 5 January 2022 to 4 January 2024.[8]

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  1. ^ Martindale-Hubbell International Law Directory. Martindale-Hubbell. 1998. ISBN 9781561602759.
  2. ^ a b "裁判所｜MIYAZAKI Yuko". www.courts.go.jp. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  3. ^ Trickey, Erick; January 23; 2019. "A Pioneer's Logic". Harvard Law Today. Retrieved 2019-09-05.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ The Tax Management International Forum. Tax Management International. 2002.
  5. ^ "New Supreme Court justice sees no problem with elective dual-surname system". Mainichi Daily News. 2018-01-10. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  6. ^ a b Osumi, Magdalena (2018-01-10). "Newly minted Japanese Supreme Court justice will issue rulings under maiden name, breaking with long tradition". The Japan Times Online. ISSN 0447-5763. Retrieved 2019-09-05.
  7. ^ Kingston, Jeff (2019-02-18). Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan. Routledge. ISBN 9781351139625.
  8. ^ "Media release: Appointments, extension of appointments and reappointments of Supreme Court judges and international judges to the Singapore International Commercial Court". Supreme Court of Singapore. 2021-11-15. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
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