Yoshiko Mibuchi

Yoshiko Mibuchi (三淵 嘉子, Mibuchi Yoshiko, January 30, 1914 – November 13, 1984) was one of the first three women in Japan to become lawyers.

Yoshiko Mibuchi
Born
Yoshiko Mutoh

January 30, 1914
Singapore
DiedNovember 13, 1984
NationalityJapan

Biography

Yoshiko Mibuchi, sometimes given as Yoshiko Sanfuchi was born Yoshiko Mutoh in Singapore on January 30 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 wasn't 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 and Ai Kume, to pass the exam in 1938. The women were about to study 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 family court. She died November 13, 1984.[1][2][3][4]

References
  1. Hayashi, Yoko (1992). "Women in the Legal Profession in Japan". U.S.-Japan Women's Journal. English Supplement (2): 16–27. ISSN 1059-9770. JSTOR 42772032.
  2. Buchanan, Kelly (6 March 2015). "Women in History: Lawyers and Judges | In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress". blogs.loc.gov.
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  4. "Rikejo: Japan's Pioneering Women in Science". Tokyo Institute of Technology (in Japanese).
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