"Ishiwata Mitsuko, 45, will be shortly appointed as the first woman judge of Japan. She is among the 124 who will formally graduate from the judicial training school of the Supreme Court on May 17. Miss Ishiwata graduated from the School of Law, Meiji University, in 1941 and passed the higher civil service examination for judicial officers in April 1947. Subsequently for two years she has been receiving practical training as judge, prosecutor and attorney. She took up the study of law after she was 30 years old."

Caption From: Nippon Times, May 16, 1949.

Image From: Sakuda, Shigeru (ed). Tokyo senryō: Occupied Tokyo. Naha City: Gekkan Okinawasha: 1979; 480.