Mineichiro Adachi

Mineichiro Adachi lived from 1869 to 1934 and was a Japanese jurist and diplomat born in Yamanobe, Yamagata Prefecture, who graduated from the Tokyo University law school in 1892. After serving in a series of Japanese diplomatic posts, including charge d'affaires in Rome and Paris and Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico and Belgium, he became Ambassador to Belgium from 1920 to 1927 and Ambassador to France from 1927 to 1930. He was elected a judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague in 1930 and served as its president from 1931 until 1934, and he died in Amsterdam in December 1934.