Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Yukihiko Imasaki | |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Office1: | 21st Chief Justice of Japan |
Appointer1: | Emperor Naruhito |
Term Start1: | August 10, 2024 |
Predecessor1: | Saburo Tokura |
Office2: | Supreme Court Justice |
Appointer2: | Second Kishida Cabinet |
Term Start2: | June 24, 2022 |
Birth Date: | 10 November 1957 |
Birth Place: | Hyogo Prefecture, Japan |
Alma Mater: | Kyoto University, Faculty of Law |
Yukihiko Imasaki (今崎幸彦, Imasaki Yukihiko, born November 10, 1957) is a Japanese jurist. He has served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan since August 16, 2024.
Imasaki has previously served as Chief Justice of the Mito District Court and Chief Justice of the Tokyo District Court. He was appointed to the Supreme Court on June 24, 2022.
Yukihiko Imasaki was born in 1957 in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. He attended Kyoto University and graduated with a degree in Law in 1981.[1]
On June 24, 2022, Imasaki was appointed to the Supreme Court of Japan.
In 2023, Imasaki presided over a Supreme Court ruling that toilet use restrictions placed on a transgender official at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry were illegal.[2]
After Chief Justice Saburo Tokura reached the mandatory retirement age of 70, Imasaki was appointed Chief Justice.[3]