Adachi Mineichirō

Adachi Mineichirō

Adachi Mineichirō ( Japanese 安達 峰 一郎 ; *  July 29, 1870 in Nishitakadate, Murayama County, Uzen Province (today: Yamanobe , Higashimurayama County , Yamagata Prefecture ); †  December 28, 1934 in Amsterdam ), especially in contemporary documents also in the Spelling Mineitciro Adatci , was a Japanese lawyer and diplomat . He served as envoy from his home country in various countries, at international conferences and at the assemblies of the League of Nations , and served from 1931 to 1934 as a judge at the Permanent International Court of Justice and as President of the Court.

Life

Adachi (front left) negotiating the Portsmouth Treaty

Adachi Mineichirō completed a law degree at the University of Tokyo until 1892 . From 1893 he worked in the diplomatic service, first as legation secretary in his home country in Italy until 1896 and then in France until 1902 . After returning to Japan, he worked there for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as professor of international law and the history of diplomacy at the commercial science faculty in Tokyo . In 1905 he was a member of the Japanese delegation to negotiate the Portsmouth Treaty . A year later, he became Director of Legal and Human Resources and Director of Protocol for the Department of Foreign Affairs. In 1907 he returned to France, where he represented his home country as chargé d' affaires in 1909 and 1910 . From 1912 to 1915 he was envoy to Mexico and from 1917 to Belgium . At the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 he was again a member of the Japanese delegation. A year later he was appointed ambassador in Brussels , and in 1927 he moved again to Paris in the same function .

In addition, he represented Japan at all general assemblies of the League of Nations until 1930 . At the end of 1930 he was elected almost unanimously by its committees as judge at the Permanent International Court of Justice , of which he was a member from 1931 until his death and of which he was president during this time. As early as 1920 he was involved in drafting the statute of the court in The Hague . In addition, he was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration from 1924 . In his home country he published, among other things, an outline of Japanese civil law and a textbook on private international law as well as essays on legal philosophy and international law . After his death, his compatriot Nagaoka Harukazu was elected to succeed him at the Permanent International Court of Justice.

Awards

Adachi Mineichirō was the first lawyer from Japan to be appointed a member of the Institut de Droit international in 1924, and from 1932 he was a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He was also admitted to the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Japan and, in 1931, an honorary member of the American Society for International Law .

literature

• Biographical Notes concerning the Judges and Deputy-Judges. Mineitciro Adacti, President. In: Seventh Annual Report of the Permanent Court of International Justice. AW Sijthoff's Publishing, Leiden 1931, pp. 22/23.
• Judge Oda's Predecessors in the PCIJ: 2. Mineichiro Adachi. In: Shigeru Oda , Nisuke Ando, Edward McWhinney , Rüdiger Wolfrum: Liber Amicorum Judge Shigeru Oda. Brill, Den Haag 2002, ISBN 90-411-1797-0 , pp. 12/13.
• Viktor Bruns : Mineitciro Adacti. An obituary. In: Journal for Foreign Public Law and International Law. Volume 5, 1935. pp. 1-5.
• George Grafton Wilson : Minéitciro Adatci (1870-1934). In: Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 70 (10 )/1936. American Academy of Arts and Sciences, pp. 496/497, ISSN  0199-9818 .

Web links

• (Japanese)
• Adachi Mineichirō in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic
• Newspaper article about Adachi Mineichirō in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ や ま の べ 町 役 場 ／ 町 の 紹 介 や ま の べ 人物 伝 安達峰 一郎 Short biography in the entry. In: Directory of Institutions in Yamagata Prefecture. June 22, 2008, archived from the original on January 3, 2014 ; Retrieved June 21, 2019 (Japanese, 財 団 法人 安達峰 一郎 記念 館 (Adachi Mineichirō Memorial Foundation)). 

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Adachi is the family name, Mineichirō the first name.