Hisashi Owada, born 18 September 1932, is a Japanese jurist who earned a degree from the University of Tokyo in 1955 and a law degree and later a doctorate from Trinity College, Cambridge. He taught international treaty law for three decades at institutions including Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School and the University of Tokyo, and served as Japan's ambassador to the OECD in 1988 and to the United Nations from 1994 to 1998. He was a judge of the International Court of Justice from 6 February 2003 to 7 June 2018, serving as the Court's President from 2009 to 2012. He is the father of Empress Masako of Japan.
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