Nagaoka Harukazu

Nagaoka Harukazu (1st from right) at a reception in Berlin in 1929

Nagaoka Harukazu ( Japanese 長 岡 春 一 ; born January 16, 1877 in Kobe ; † June 30, 1949 ) was a Japanese lawyer and diplomat . From 1935 to 1942 he worked as a judge at the Permanent International Court of Justice in The Hague .

Life

Harukazu Nagaoka studied law at Tokyo Imperial University , where he became doctor of law ( Hōgaku-Hakushi ) doctorate . After joining the Japanese Foreign Service, he was legal advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1900 and attaché in France from 1902 . During his time in Paris , he completed a degree at the École des Sciences Politiques there, which he completed with a degree as a litterarum doctor . From 1917 to 1921 he worked as legal advisor to the Japanese embassy in France. From 1921 to 1923 he worked in Prague and then until 1925 in The Hague . He then returned to Tokyo for a short time and took over the post of Director of Contracts and Conventions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After getting to know German political and social conditions as a ministerial director in the trade contract department of the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo , he was sent to Berlin as Japanese ambassador in the summer of 1926 , where he held office until 1930. In the same year he represented Japan at the Conference for the Codification of International Law in The Hague . He was then ambassador to Paris from 1932 to 1333.

From 1935 he was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration . In September of the same year he was appointed judge at the Permanent International Court of Justice after the death of Adachi Mineichirō . After he had originally been elected until the regular end of Adachi's term in office in 1939, he remained in office beyond that point, as the judges' elections planned for 1939 were initially postponed and finally no longer took place due to the start of the Second World War . In January 1942 he announced his resignation in a letter to the President of the Court and to the Secretary General of the League of Nations . During his time at the Court, he was involved in five decisions and one expert opinion. His publications included a diplomatic guide, works on international contract law and the history of diplomacy, as well as treatises on the position of foreigners in Japan and on Japanese foreign relations with European countries in the 16th and 17th centuries.

literature

• Biographical Notes concerning the Judges and Deputy-Judges. M. Nagaoka, member of the Court. In: Twelfth Annual Report of the Permanent Court of International Justice (June 15th, 1935 - June 15, 1936) AW Sijthoff's Publishing, Leiden 1936, pp. 23/24
• Harukazu Nagaoka. In: Shigeru Oda , Nisuke Ando, Edward McWhinney , Rüdiger Wolfrum: Liber Amicorum Judge Shigeru Oda. Brill, Den Haag 2002, ISBN 90-411-1797-0 , pp. 13-16

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Nagaoka is the family name, Harukazu the first name.