Hisashi Owada

Hisashi Owada
小和田 恆
Owada in 2005
President of the International Court of Justice
In office 6 February 2009 – 5 February 2012
Vice President	Peter Tomka
Preceded by	Rosalyn Higgins
Succeeded by	Peter Tomka
Judge of the International Court of Justice
In office 6 February 2003 – 7 June 2018
Preceded by	Shigeru Oda
Succeeded by	Yuji Iwasawa
Personal details
Born	(1932-09-18) 18 September 1932 (age 91) Shibata, Niigata, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Spouse	Yumiko Egashira ​ (m. 1962)​
Children	Masako, Empress of Japan Setsuko Owada Reiko Owada
Alma mater	University of Tokyo Trinity College, Cambridge

Hisashi Owada (小和田 恆, Owada Hisashi, born 18 September 1932) is a Japanese former jurist, diplomat and law professor. He served as a judge on the International Court of Justice from 2003 until June 7, 2018, and was President of the Court from 2009 to 2012.^[1] He is the father of Empress Masako and the father-in-law of the incumbent Emperor of Japan, Naruhito.