Hisako Takahashi (高橋 久子, Takahashi Hisako, September 21, 1927 – December 21, 2013) was a bureaucrat with the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare and served as a Supreme Court Justice of Japan.
There she found that women did menial chores in the department, and evidence of other gender discrimintation.
[1] Takahashi spent the next few years working as the director of the Asian Women’s Interchange Research Forum and the president of the 21st Century Occupational Foundation.
She then became the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Japan on February 9, 1994, by Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa.
[3] Takahashi's term on the Supreme Court ended on September 20, 1997, when she reached the obligatory retirement age of 70.