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Hisashi Owada

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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 6 February 2003 until 7 June 2018, and was president of the court from 2009 to 2012. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hisashi Owada has received more than 259,647 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Hisashi Owada is the 58th most popular lawyer (down from 45th in 2019), the 1,024th most popular biography from Japan (down from 895th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Lawyer.

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  • 260k

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  • 57.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, Hisashi Owada ranks 58 out of 136. Before him are Radhabinod Pal, Valtazar Bogišić, Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, Jean Domat, Alberico Gentili, and Paul Alexander. After him are Hersch Lauterpacht, Louis Brandeis, Roy Cohn, René David, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., and James B. Donovan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Hisashi Owada ranks 246. Before him are Chiquito de la Calzada, Carlo Maria Abate, Anand Panyarachun, Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, Quentin Blake, and Loretta Lynn. After him are Arif Mardin, Paul Bley, Lajos Csordás, Miroslav Hroch, Turgay Şeren, and Banharn Silpa-archa.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hisashi Owada ranks 1,024 out of 6,245. Before him are Damo Suzuki (1950), Homare Sawa (1978), Toyohiko Kagawa (1888), Ogyū Sorai (1666), Hiroshi Nakajima (1928), and Moto Hagio (1949). After him are Yuko Shimizu (1946), Tatsumi Kimishima (1950), Ōmura Masujirō (1824), Edwin O. Reischauer (1910), Akira Terao (1947), and Yūjirō Ishihara (1934).

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Among LAWYERS In Japan

Among lawyers born in Japan, Hisashi Owada ranks 1. 

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