Yokota Kisaburō

Yokota Kisaburō

Yokota Kisaburō ( Japanese 横 田 喜 三郎 ; born August 6, 1896 in Aichi Prefecture ; died February 17, 1993 in Tōkyō ) was a Japanese lawyer.

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Yokota Kisaburō graduated from Tōkyō University in 1922 . In 1924 he became an assistant professor at his alma mater. From 1930 he was a professor there until he left in 1975 when he became a member of the "UN Committee on international Law". He worked from 1960 to 1966 in Japan as the chief judge of the Supreme Court (最高 裁判 所, Seikō saiban-sho).

After the end of the Pacific War , Yokota stood up for the abdication of the emperor, as he was responsible for the war. He interpreted Article 9 of the post-war constitution in such a way that no military expenditure is allowed at all, but later revised this view: self-defense must be possible in order to guarantee national security.

His writings include “International Law” (国際法, Kokusai-hō), two volumes from 1933, “Right to Self-Defense” (自衛 権, Jiei-ken) 1951 and “Doctrine of International Law” (国際 法学) 1955 .

In 1975 Yokota was honored as a person with special cultural merits , in 1981 he was awarded the Order of Culture .

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Yokota Kisaburō . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993. ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1752.

Web links

Commons : Yokota Kisaburō  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biographies of Yokota Kisaburō in the Kotobank, Japanese

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