Dandō Shigemitsu

Dandō Shigemitsu ( Japanese 団 藤 重 光 ; born November 8, 1913 in Yamaguchi , Yamaguchi Prefecture ; † June 25, 2012 ) was a Japanese lawyer who was a professor at the University of Tokyo until his retirement and was a judge at the Supreme Court for several years .

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Dandō Shigemitsu, son of a public prosecutor and judge, grew up in Takahashi and attended the daini Okayama chūgakkō ("Second Middle School Okayama", corresponds to middle and high school in today's system, English junior and senior high school ). In 1934 he completed the examination for the higher service. He then began in 1935 to study criminal law and criminal procedure law at the University of Tokyo, where he took part in the then debate on the death penalty . One of his university lecturers was Ono Seiichirō , who laid his views on terms and topics such as punishment , crime , offenses , totalitarianism and Nulla poena sine and shaped the discussions associated with them.

In 1937 he first became an assistant professor before he himself accepted a professorship for criminal law and criminal procedure law at the University of Tokyo in 1947, where he taught until his retirement in 1974. He was also a professor at Keiō University . He dealt with theories about illegality , worthlessness and worthlessness for action and success, and a substantive argument with the approaches put forward by Hirano Ryūichi . He became known because of his "theory of moral responsibility" which was set up in relation to responsibility , which was in contrast to the "theory of personal responsibility" set up by Makino Eiichi . Through his views, he had a lasting impact on the studies of criminal law and criminal procedure law of his time.

He became a judge at the Supreme Court of Japan in 1974 and served there until 1983. During his tenure there, he participated in numerous key judgments in proceedings involving the death penalty . In addition, he was one of the judges who had to rule in 1981 on the flight time and flight bans at Osaka Airport .

For his many years of service he became a member of the Academy of Sciences in 1981 . In 1986 he was honored as a person with special cultural merits and was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Rising Sun on November 3, 1987 . In 1987 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1995 he was awarded the Order of Culture .

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