was one of the first three women in Japan to become lawyers.
Biography
Yoshiko Mibuchi, sometimes given as Yoshiko Sanfuchi was born Yoshiko Mutoh in
Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...
on November 13, 1914.
At the time the definition of someone who could enter the modern legal profession in Japan was "A Male Japanese national" who must be at least twenty years old. This was not amended until 1933. It was 1936 before women were allowed enter the bar. So it was then that women began to take the exam for entrance to the bar. Mibuchi was one of the first three women, including
Masako Nakata
was one of Japan's first women lawyers.
Biography
Masako Tanaka was born and raised in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo on December 1, 1910. Her father Kunijiro was a major in the Military Police who loved reading William Shakespeare in English, and encoura ...
and
Ai Kume, to pass the exam in 1938. The women started their studies of law from 1929 at Women's College, Meiji University. All three became fully qualified lawyers after an eighteen-month internship, in 1940. Mibuchi became one of the first two women judges in 1949 after the new constitution. She was the first woman judge in the Nagoya District Court in 1952. In 1972 Mibuchi went on to be the first woman chief judge of the
Niigata Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture in the Chūbu region of Honshu of Japan. Niigata Prefecture has a population of 2,131,009 (1 July 2023) and is the List of Japanese prefectures by area, fifth-largest prefecture of Japan by geographic area ...
family court. She died on May 28, 1984.
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See also
*''The Tiger and Her Wings
is a Japanese television drama series and the 110th ''Asadora'' series, following ''Boogie Woogie (Japanese TV series), Boogie Woogie''. The drama is modeled after one of Japan's first female lawyers, Yoshiko Mibuchi, but it is produced as fictio ...
'' (2024 television series). The protagonist Tomoko Inotsume is modeled after Mibuchi.
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1914 births
1984 deaths
People from Singapore
Japanese women lawyers
20th-century Japanese lawyers
Japanese women judges
Meiji University alumni
20th-century women lawyers
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