Hironobu Takesaki
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Hironobu Takesaki (竹崎 博允 Takesaki Hironobu, born July 8, 1944) is a Japanese lawyer and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan. He is a graduate of the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law [1] and of Columbia Law School.
At age 64, Takesaki replaced Niro Shimada as the Chief Justice when November 21, 2008, the date of Shimada's mandatory retirement, came.[2]
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- ^ "Takesaki formally named as Supreme Court chief justice." Japan Today. October 31, 2008.
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