Ritsuko Nagao

Ritsuko Nagao (長尾立子; born c. 1934) is the first woman to serve as the Cabinet of Japan's Minister of Justice.

In 1996, Nagao was appointed to the Cabinet of Japan as the Minister of Justice by Ryutaro Hashimoto, where she was the only woman and only appointee who was not a member of Parliament already. Before her appointment as the Minister of Justice, she worked as a bureaucrat in the Health and Welfare Ministry.