Hisashi Owada

Hisashi Owada (right) with Vladimir Putin , 2005

Hisashi Owada ( Japanese 小 和田 恆 , Owada Hisashi ; born September 18, 1932 in Niigata Prefecture ) is a Japanese diplomat and a judge at the International Court of Justice from 2003 to 2018 , as its president he served from February 6, 2009 to February 5, 2012 .

Life

Hisashi Owada was born in the Japanese prefecture of Niigata in 1932 and graduated from Tokyo University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1955 . He then continued his academic training at the University of Cambridge , where he earned his Bachelor of Laws in 1956 .

In 1955 he joined the Japanese Foreign Service . From 1968 to 1971 he was first secretary in the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations and then until 1972 private secretary of the Japanese Foreign Minister Fukuda Takeo . Subsequently, he headed the department responsible for the United Nations in the Japanese Foreign Ministry until 1974 and the department for international agreements until 1976 . From 1976 to 1978 Hisashi Owada was again the private secretary of Fukuda Takeo, who had assumed the office of Japanese Prime Minister on December 24, 1976 . After working at the embassies in Washington, DC (1979–1981) and Moscow (1981–1984), he was appointed chief legal advisor at the Japanese Foreign Ministry in 1984 and held this post until 1987. He was then from 1988 to 1989 permanent representative of Japan to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). From 1989 to 1991 he worked as Deputy Minister in the Japanese Foreign Ministry and from 1991 to 1993 as Deputy Foreign Minister. Until 1998 he was the permanent representative of Japan to the United Nations and from 1999 to 2003 he was an advisor to the Japanese Foreign Minister.

During his career, Hisashi Owada represented his home country at numerous international conferences. Among other things, he was head of the Japanese delegation in the negotiations for the establishment of the International Criminal Court (1998). He was also President of the Japan Institute of International Affairs from 1999 to 2003 and Chief Advisor to the President of the World Bank from 1999 to 2003 , and has been a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration since 2001 . On February 6, 2003, Hisashi Owada took up his post as judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. After his re-election in November 2011, his term of office ran until 2021. After six years at the Court, he became its President on February 6, 2009 elected and replaced the outgoing judge Rosalyn Higgins . He was the first Japanese chairman in the history of the court. His term as president ended on February 5, 2012. In early 2018, Judge Hisashi Owada announced his resignation from the International Court of Justice. This took effect on June 7, 2018.

In addition to his diplomatic career, Hisashi Owada kept constant contact with science. He has taught at Harvard University , Tokyo University, New York University , Columbia University , Waseda University, and the Hague Academy of International Law . He has also been an academic advisor to the University of Hiroshima since 2002 and an honorary professor at the University of Leiden since 2006 .

family

Hisado Owada's daughter Masako is married to Emperor Naruhito and is therefore Empress of Japan .

Awards

Hisashi Owada has received several awards for his services. The Keiwa University (2000), the Banaras Hindu University (2001) and Waseda University (2004) he awarded the honorary doctorate . He has also been a member of the Institut de Droit international since 1995 and an honorary member of the American Society for International Law since 2006 . In 1990 he was awarded the Jordanian Al-Istiqlal Order of the First Degree, in 1992 he was appointed Officier de la Légion d'Honneur and in 1994 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with a star and shoulder ribbon.

Works

• Japan and the new Europe . Athlone Pr., London 1993, ISBN 0-485-11423-2 .
• Diplomacy Reconsidered: Essay on the Re Examination of a Legal Framework for Diplomacy . In: New York University journal of international law & politics . Vol. 27, No. 3, 1995, ISSN  0028-7873 , p. 561.
• Japan's constitutional powers to participate in peace-keeping . In: New York University journal of international law & politics . Vol. 29, No. 3, 1997, ISSN  0028-7873 , p. 271.
• The role of science and technology in sustainable development . In: Japan review of international affairs . Vol. 16, 2002, ISSN  0913-8773 , p. 146.
• The creation of the International Criminal Court: a critical analysis . In: Indian Society of International Law in association with Manak Publications (Ed.): Dynamics of international law in the new millennium . New Delhi, 2004, ISBN 81-7827-084-6 , p. 82.
• The United Nations and the maintenance of international peace and security: the current debate in the light of reform proposals . In: The Japanese annual of international law . Vol. 48, 2005, ISSN  0448-8806 , p. 1.

Web links

• Biography at the ICJ - English and French (with picture)
• Video of a lecture by Owada on "The Encounter of Japan with the Community of Civilized Nations"

Individual evidence

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