Until 1933, women in Japan were forbidden from being lawyers. This is the story of how Mibuchi Yoshiko overcame the law – and even her own mother – to become a lawyer and, ultimately, an influential judge.
It used to be a centerpiece of Tokyo’s youth culture. Have tourism, global retail, and old men conspired to make Shibuya dull?
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