was a Japanese jurist who served as the 10th

Chief Justice of Japan The is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of Japan and is the head of the judicial branch of the Japanese government. The Chief Justice is ceremonially appointed by the Emperor of Japan The emperor of Japan is the hereditary monarch a ...

from 1982 to 1985. He is the father of Itsuro Terada, who served as Chief Justice from 2012 to 2018. He was a graduate of the

University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...

. He was a recipient of the

Order of the Rising Sun The is a Japanese honors system, Japanese order, established in 1875 by Emperor Meiji. The Order was the first national decoration awarded by the Japanese government, created on 10 April 1875 by decree of the Council of State. The badge feat ...

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1915 births 2002 deaths Chief justices of Japan Grand Cordons of the Order of the Rising Sun University of Tokyo alumni People from Aichi Prefecture Supreme Court of Japan justices {{Japan-law-bio-stub