Yukihiko Imasaki

Honestly, just the word "judge" makes me sit up a little straighter, and something about Yukihiko Imasaki earns that instinct. He's not the type to end up on a talk show or rack up followers; he's the type who walked into a courtroom for decades and quietly held the scales while everyone else got loud. There's a particular weight to a person whose career is entirely about deciding things that matter — things that can't be undone. No red carpet, no celebrity machine, just the long accumulation of judgment calls. I find myself genuinely respecting that. The world runs on people like this even as it ignores them, and that's exactly what makes them worth a second look.

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Yukihiko Imasaki is a Japanese judge born in 1957 in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. He graduated from Kyoto University. He has served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan since August 16, 2024, after previously heading the Tokyo High Court.

Name (English)

Yukihiko Imasaki

Name (Japanese)

今崎幸彦

Reading

いまさき ゆきひこ

Born

November 10, 1957 (age 68)

Origin

Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Judge

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rooster

University

Kyoto University

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BB%8A%E5%B4%8E%E5%B9%B8%E5%BD%A6
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27921045

Tags

• From Hyogo Prefecture
• Judge

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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