In early 1977, in Kyoto, Nakamura Michie, a young factory worker of Buraku origin, stood trial for killing her lover of six years who, under family pressure, refused to marry her. The presiding judge threw out the murder charge and had her freed with a two-year suspended sentence for manslaughter, declaring that the killing took place against "a background of unjust discrimination for which the whole nation bore responsibility."
Wow.
I think this is what they sometimes call an “activist judge”
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