MineichirÅ Adachi
Adachi Mineichirō (Japanese安达 峰 一郎; born July 29, 1870 Nishitakadate, County Murayama, Province Uzen (now Yamanobe, County Higashimurayama, Yamagata Prefecture ), † 28 December 1934 in Amsterdam ), especially in contemporary documents in the spelling Mineitciro Adacti, was a Japanese jurist and diplomat. He acted as an envoy of his home country in different countries, international conferences, and at meetings of the League, and worked from 1931 to 1934 as a judge at the Permanent Court of International Justice, as well as president of the court.
Life
Adachi Mineichirō completed until 1892 to study law at the University of Tokyo. From 1893 he was active in the diplomatic service, to 1896, first as secretary of legation of his home country in Italy and then to 1902 in France. After his return to Japan, he worked for the State Department and as a professor of international law and history of diplomacy at the trade Faculty in Tokyo. In 1905 he was a member of the Japanese delegation at the negotiations on the Treaty of Portsmouth. A year later, he became Director of the Legal Department and the Personnel Department and Director of Protocol Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1907 he returned to France, where he in 1909 and 1910 represented his native country as a business support. From 1912 to 1915 he was ambassador to Mexico and from 1917 in Belgium. At the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 he was again a member of the delegation of Japan. A year later he was appointed ambassador in Brussels, in 1927, he moved in the same function again to Paris.
In addition, he represented Japan to 1930 for all general meetings of the League of Nations. At the end of 1930 he was elected by its bodies almost unanimously to the judge at the International Court of Justice, where he served from 1931 until his death and which he presided as President at this time. As early as 1920 he had been involved in The Hague in the drafting of the Statute of the Court. In addition, he belonged from 1924 to the Permanent Court of Arbitration. He published in his home country, among others, a floor plan of the Japanese civil law and a textbook of private international law as well as essays on the philosophy of law and international law. After his death, his compatriot Nagaoka Harukazu was elected his successor at the Permanent Court of International Justice.
Awards
Adachi Mineichirō 1924 appointed as the first lawyer from Japan as a member of the Institut de Droit International, from 1932 he was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as a foreign member of. In addition, he was admitted to the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Japan and in 1931 an honorary member of the American Society of International Law.