is a former justice of the
Supreme Court of Japan, serving from 2012 to 2017. He was appointed on 13 February 2012, succeeding
Kohei Nasu on the Third Petty Bench. He passed the bar exam in 1968, received his
LLB (in both Private Law and Public Law programs) from the
University of Tokyo in 1969, and his
LLM degree from
Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School (Harvard Law or HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States.
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in 1976. Before joining the Supreme Court, he held a number of high-profile positions in the Japanese Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA) and was a co-founder/partner of Tokei Partners. He reportedly enjoys
pottery,
rakugo
is a form of ''yose'', which is itself a form of Japanese verbal entertainment. The lone sits on a raised platform, a . Using only a and a as props, and without standing up from the seiza sitting position, the rakugo artist depicts a long ...
, and
legal dramas.
Honours
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Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (2018)
References
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University of Tokyo alumni
Supreme Court of Japan justices
Harvard Law School alumni
20th-century Japanese lawyers
1947 births
Living people
Grand Cordons of the Order of the Rising Sun
21st-century Japanese judges