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Ritsuko Nagao
Japanese politician
Ritsuko Nagao (Japanese: 長尾立子, romanized: Nagao Ritsuko; born c. 1934) is the first woman to serve as the Cabinet of Japan's Minister of Justice.[1]
In 1996, Nagao was appointed to the Cabinet of Japan as the Minister of Justice by Ryutaro Hashimoto, where she was the only woman and only appointee who was not a member of Parliament already.[1][2][3][4][5] Before her appointment as the Minister of Justice, she worked as a bureaucrat in the Health and Welfare Ministry.[1]