was the Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Japan
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.
Born in
Tokyo
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, he attended the
University of Tokyo
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, graduating with an LL.B. and passing the bar examination in 1962. He was appointed as an assistant judge in 1964 and rotated through the criminal divisions of the Tokyo and Nagoya District Courts and of the Supreme Court. He obtained an MPhil from the
University of London
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in 1968.
He served on the Osaka District Court (1974–77), as a lecturer at the
Legal Research and Training Institute (1977–81), on the
Tokyo District Court
is a district court located at 1-1-4 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.
See also
*Judicial system of Japan
In the judicial system of Japan, the Constitution of Japan guarantees that "all judges shall be independent in the exercise of thei ...
(1981–82; 1986–89), in the criminal division of the Supreme Court (1983–86; 1989–94), as chief judge of the Utsunomiya District Court (1994–96), as chief judge of the Urawa District Court (1996–98), as head of the Legal Research and Training Institute (1999–2001), as chief judge of the Sendai High Court (2001–02) and as chief judge of the Osaka High Court (2002). He was appointed to the Supreme Court on November 7, 2002, and became Chief Justice on October 16, 2006.
Hironobu Takesaki
is a Japanese lawyer and a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan. He is a graduate of the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law and of Columbia Law School.
At age 64, Takesaki replaced Niro Shimada as the Chief Justice when November ...
replaced Niro Shimada when November 21, 2008, the date of Shimada's mandatory retirement, came.
[Takesaki formally named as Supreme Court chief justice]
" ''Japan Today''. October 31, 2008.
References
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1938 births
Living people
Chief justices of Japan
University of Tokyo alumni
Alumni of the University of London
Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun