Tomoko Akane is a Japanese jurist who has served as President of the International Criminal Court since March 2024, elected by the court's judges for the term 2024 to 2027. She began her career as a public prosecutor in Japan in 1982 after graduating from the University of Tokyo, later earning a master's degree in criminal justice from Jacksonville State University in 1990, and served as chief prosecutor of Hakodate from 2010 to 2012 and in posts at the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office, as well as director of the United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders. Japan nominated her for the International Criminal Court in April 2016, and she was elected a judge of the court on 4 December 2017, taking office in March 2018 as a pre-trial judge before her election to the presidency.
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RoleJurist and current judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Japan, as well as the president of the court 1 Nationality / Jurisdiction Classification
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After graduating from the University of Tokyo, she became a public prosecutor in 1982.
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Tomoko Akane is a Japanese jurist who has served as President of the International Criminal Court since March 2024, elected by the court's judges for the term 2024 to 2027.
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As a pre-trial judge at the ICC she was mainly assigned to Pre-Trial Chamber II. On 20 March 2023, Russia initiated a criminal investigation against Akane, Rosario Salvatore Aitala and Sergio Gerardo Ugalde Godinez in response to an arrest warrant issued on 17 March 2023 against its president Vladimir Putin for the unlawful deportations of Ukrainian children to Russia during the Russian-Ukrainian war. In July 2023, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs issued a warrant for her arrest.
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She later earned a Master of Science in Criminal Justice from Jacksonville State University in December 1990.
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Tomoko Akane (赤根 智子, Akane Tomoko) is a Japanese jurist and current judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Japan, as well as the president of the court.
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P569 (date of birth): 1956
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P569 (date of birth): 1956-06-28
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P19 (place of birth): Nagoya
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