Tanaka Kōtaro

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Tanaka Kōtarō, ca.1961

Tanaka Kōtarō ( Japanese 田中 耕 太郎 ; born October 25, 1890 in Kagoshima , Japan ; †  March 1, 1974 in Tokyo , Japan) was a Japanese lawyer . He worked from 1923 as a professor at the University of Tokyo and was President of the Supreme Court of Japan from 1950 to 1960 and a judge at the International Court of Justice from 1961 to 1970 .

Life

Tanaka Kōtarō was born in Kagoshima in 1890 and worked for a short time in the Japanese Ministry of the Interior after studying law , which he graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1915 . In 1917 he moved to the University of Tokyo, where he was initially a lecturer in business law and, after research stays in the USA , England , France , Italy and Germany from 1919 to 1922 , he was promoted to professor in 1923.

After the end of the Second World War he was from May 1946 to January 1947 Minister of Education in the first cabinet of Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru and from 1947 to 1950 a member of the Upper House of the Japanese Parliament , where he belonged to the Ryokufūkai faction . From 1950 to 1960 he served as President of the Supreme Court of Japan . At the end of 1960 he was elected as a judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague , where he served for a regular nine-year term from 1961 to 1970.

From a legal philosophical point of view, Tanaka Kōtarō was a representative of natural law , which he viewed as the metaphysical basis of international law . He died in Tokyo in 1974 .

Awards

Tanaka Kōtarō belonged to the Imperial Academy of Japan from 1941 , from 1961 as an honorary member of the American Society for International Law and from 1967 to the Institut de Droit international . In addition, he received the Asahi Prize in 1934 , the Order of Culture in 1960 , the Order of the Rising Sun first class in 1964 and first class with paulownia flower in 1970 and, posthumously, the Grand Cross of the Chrysanthemum Order on the day of his death .

literature

  • Judge Oda's Predecessor in the ICJ: Kotaro Tanaka. In: Shigeru Oda , Nisuke Ando, Edward McWhinney , Rüdiger Wolfrum: Liber Amicorum Judge Shigeru Oda. Brill, Den Haag 2002, ISBN 9-04-111797-0 , pp. 16-20
  • Kotaro Tanaka. In: Arthur Eyffinger, Arthur Witteveen, Mohammed Bedjaoui : La Cour internationale de Justice 1946–1996. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague and London 1999, ISBN 9-04-110468-2 , p. 329
  • S. Noma (Ed.): Tanaka Kōtarō . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1523.

Individual evidence

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