Yōko Kamikawa (上川 陽子, Kamikawa Yōko, 1 March 1953), is a *anese politician and former think tank researcher who served as the Minister of Justice from September 2020 to October 2021. Kamikawa previously served as Minister of State for Gender Equality and Social Affairs in the cabinets of Shinzō Abe and Yasuo *uda. She has been a member of the House of Representatives since December 2012.

Born in the city of Shizuoka in Shizuoka Prefecture, she graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1977. In 1988 she received a master's degree in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in June 2000.

During her time in office, Kamikawa has ordered 16 executions, 13 of those executed being former members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult, whose acts of domestic terrorism included the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack.

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• "Minister of State for Regulatory Reform". Retrieved September 30, 2007.