| Tomoko Sasaki | |
| Office: |  Member of the House of Councillors |
| Term Start: | July 1998 |
| Term End: | July 2004 |
| Birth Date: | 2 March 1955 |
| Birth Place: | Hiroshima |
| Party: | Liberal Democratic Party |
| Alma Mater: | Kobe University |
| Website: | http://www.sasaki-law.com/ |
is a Japanese lawyer, politician, novelist and former prosecutor.
She became a prosecutor in 1983, and worked at the United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders from 1993 to 1996.[1]
Elected to the House of Councillors in 1998, Sasaki was engaged in introducing the Stalker Regulation Law of 2000.[2] She served as the director of the Women's Affairs Division of the Liberal Democratic Party.[3] She did not run for the election in 2004, but remains a member of the Party Ethics Committee of the LDP.[2] [4] She is a leading advocate of capital punishment in the party.[5]
She set up a law firm in 2004 and became a professor of law at Teikyo University in 2005.[1]
Sasaki has written some mystery novels under the pen name of .[2] She won the Seishi Yokomizo Prize for Koibumi in 1992.[2]