Kazuko Yokoo, Date of Birth

    

Kazuko Yokoo

Japanese judge

Date of Birth: 14-Apr-1941

Profession: judge, diplomat

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Kazuko Yokoo

  • Kazuko Yokoo (?? ??, Yokoo Kazuko, born April 14, 1941) is a former justice of the Supreme Court of Japan.
  • She was the second woman in history to serve in that role.She attended International Christian University and became a bureaucrat in the Ministry of Health and Welfare after graduation.
  • She was appointed as head of Japan's social insurance system in 1994, and as ambassador to the Republic of Ireland in 1998.
  • In 2001, she was appointed to the Supreme Court.In September 2008, Yokoo resigned two years and seven months prior to the mandatory retirement age of 70.
  • Ryuko Sakurai replaced Yokoo.

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