As women hit milestone in Japan’s legal system, drama tells story of 1 pioneer

There is a Japanese proverb that means making an already strong person or thing even stronger.

It is also the title of a serial drama that Japanese public broadcaster NHK aired in 2024. Tora ni Tsubasa (The Tiger and Her Wings) is based on the true story of Yoshiko Mibuchi, one of Japan’s first women lawyers in pre-war Japan who later became a judge after World War II.

The series, broadcast from April 1 to September 27, coincided with a milestone in the fight against gender inequality, as more than 30 per cent of people passing Japan’s bar examination were women for the first time in its history.

In Japan’s legal professions, as in other sectors, women’s advancement has been slow, even 84 years after Mibuchi and two other women became lawyers.

Yoshiko Mibuchi, circa 1938.

But in 2024, Japanese women took the two top positions for lawyers and public prosecutors: president of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA) and prosecutor-general, the head of the Public Prosecutors Office.

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