Hanai Takuzo

Hanai Takuzo

Hanai Takuzō ( Japanese 花 井 卓 蔵 ; born July 31, 1868 in Mihara , Hiroshima Prefecture ; died December 3, 1931 ) was a Japanese lawyer and politician.

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Hanai Takuzō was born the fourth son of the samurai Tachihara Shirōemon (立 原 四郎 右衛門), then was adopted by the related Hanai family in 1888. He trained as a lawyer at the predecessor institution of today's Chūō University . He later became president of the Tōkyō Bar Association and received the doctorate in 1909. He wrote a series of books, taught at Chūō University and participated in committees that drafted the Criminal Code in 1907, the court martial in 1921 and the introduction of jury jurisdiction in 1923.

Hanai was a defending attorney in a number of legal proceedings, including the 1893 defamation lawsuit regarding poisoning, the murder of Hoshi Tōru in 1901, the charges against Kōtoku Shūsui in 1910 for high treason, and the charges resulting from the 1918 rice rioting . He also successfully defended that Ashio copper mine against environmental poisoning lawsuits, was involved in the judicial processing of the Hibiya riots and the disputes with the Ōmoto denomination . Hanai has also served as a defense lawyer in a series of corruption scandals, including the one that went down in history as the Siemens Scandal .

Hanai was elected seven times as a member of the House of Commons , but was unable to assert himself with his efforts to have equality between men and women enshrined in law. In 1922 he was given a seat in the House of Lords , which he held until his death in 1931, when he died at home of gas poisoning.

Remarks

1. ↑ It was about the death of the vice count Sōma Tomotane (相 馬 誠 胤, 1852-1892). His colleague Nishigori Takekyo (錦 織 剛 清; 1855-1921) was accused of having poisoned him, sick. However, the autopsy did not reveal any poisoning and resulted in an acquittal.

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Hanai Takuzō . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 496.

Web links

• Short biographies in the Kotobank

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