Harukazu Nagaoka

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

Life

Nagaoka Harukazu studied law at Tokyo Imperial University, where he earned his doctorate of law ( Hōgaku - Hakushi ). After joining the Japanese Foreign Service, he was 1900 Legal Adviser of the State Department and from 1902 attaché in France. During his time in Paris he studied there at the École des Sciences Politiques, which he ended with the conclusion as Litterarum doctor. In the period 1917-1921 he worked as a legal adviser to the Japanese Embassy in France. From 1921 to 1923 he was in Prague, and then until 1925 worked in The Hague. He then returned for a short time to Tokyo and took the post of Director of treaties and conventions in the Foreign Ministry. After he had met as a Secretary in the commercial contract department of the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo, the German political and social conditions, he was sent in the summer of 1926 as a Japanese ambassador to Berlin, where he served until 1930. In the same year he represented Japan taking place in the Hague Conference for the Codification of International Law. Subsequently, he was from 1932 to 1333 Ambassador in Paris.

From 1935 he was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. In September of the same year he was appointed after the death of Adachi Mineichirō to the judge at the Permanent Court of International Justice. After he was originally elected to the regular end of Adachi's term of office in 1939, he remained beyond that date in office, as planned for 1939 judges elections were first postponed and eventually no longer held due to the start of the Second World War. In January 1942, he declared in a letter to the President of the Court and to the Secretary General of the League of Nations for his resignation. During his time on the Court, he was involved in five decisions and to an opinion. His publications included, among other things, a diplomatic Guide, works for international contract law and the history of diplomacy as well as essays on the status of foreigners in Japan and the Japanese foreign relations with European countries in the 16th and 17th centuries.