The Urawa Mitsuko Incident

Japanese: 浦和充子事件 - うらわみつこじけん
The Urawa Mitsuko Incident

…Given that the aim of the independence of the judiciary is to guarantee the free exercise of legal judgment by judges, the view in (c) seems appropriate. In 1949, this point was hotly debated between the House of Councilors' Judicial Affairs Committee and the Supreme Court over the investigation into the Urawa Mitsuko case. The Urawa District Court had sentenced Urawa Mitsuko to three years in prison with a three-year suspension of execution for the murder of her own child the previous year. …

*Some of the terms used in reference to the "Urawa Mitsuko Incident" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…〈司法権の独立〉が裁判官の自由な法的判断を保障することを狙いとしているところからすれば,(c)の考え方が妥当であろう。1949年,〈浦和充子事件〉の調査をめぐって,参議院法務委員会と最高裁判所の間でこの点がはげしく論争された。浦和地方裁判所は,その前年,浦和充子が実子を殺害した事件につき,懲役3年,執行猶予3年の判決を下した。…

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