was a Japanese expert on international law. Studied law at

Tokyo Imperial University , abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by ...

, and graduated in 1897. In 1900–04 studied law in Europe. In 1904 became professor of law at Tokyo Imperial University. In 1919 served as member of the

Commission of Responsibilities The Commission on the Responsibility of the Authors of the War and on Enforcement of Penalties was a commission established at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. Its role was to examine the background of the First World War, and to investigate a ...

, which dealt with the issue of war crimes. In 1921–22 served as member of the Japanese delegation to the Washington naval conference. He opposed the idea to outlaw war in the

Kellogg–Briand Pact The Kellogg–Briand Pact or Pact of Paris – officially the General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy – is a 1928 international agreement on peace in which signatory states promised not to use war to ...

, arguing the idea was unrealistic. From 1931 onward, justified Japanese policy in north-China as self-defense relating to Japanese interests. Regarding the mandates system under the League of Nations, held the view that the mandatory power had total sovereignty over the mandate territory.

Works (partial list)

* ''La Souveraineté et l'Independance de l'État et les Questions intérieures en Droit International'' (Paris, Les Éditions Internationales, 1930) * ''The Principle of the Open Door in China and Manchoukuo'' (Tokyo: The Foreign Affairs Association of Japan, 1937) * "Pearl Harbour Raid and Roberts Report" '' Contemporary Japan: A Review of East Asiatic Affairs'', vol. XII, No. 4 (April, 1943), pp. 417–425

External links

* Shinohara Hatsue, "An Intellectual Foundation for the Road to Pearl Harbor: Quincy Wright and Tachi Sakutaro" ''Keisen Jogakuen College Bulletin'' 8 (January 1996), {{DEFAULTSORT:Tachi, Sakutarou 1874 births 1943 deaths 20th-century Japanese lawyers Academic staff of the University of Tokyo