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Hisashi Owada (Japan)小和田恒
小和田恒大使生于1932年,曾经是日本驻联合国常任代表。从东京大学毕业后,小和田恒进入日本外务省,担任各种职务,大部分时间处理法律和联合国事务,以及对美国和苏联的事务。小和田恒先后担任过外务部长的私人秘书、日本首相的私人秘书、条约局局长、副部长和日本外务省副部长,为日本外交政策的形成做出了不可磨灭的贡献。
小和田恒大使作为日本代表参加过各种双边、多边外交大会和谈判。他曾经是经济合作与发展组织的常任日本代表(1988-1989),也是驻联合国常任代表(1994-1998)。在联合国任职期间,他是“冷战后时代”的发展新策略的积极倡导者,也是1998年10月在日本召开的“第二届非洲发展东京国际大会”(TICAD II)的主要设计师。
除了外交领域的职业活动,小和田恒大使还积极参加各种学术活动。他在东京大学执教超过25年,并于1979-1981,1987-1989年两次任教于哈佛法学院。在他出任联合国大使期间,他还是哥伦比亚法学院的国际法兼职教授,纽约大学法学院因格•雷纳特杰出法学访问教授,国际法学院准会员。
Ambassador Hisashi Owada, former permanent representative of Japan to the United Nations, was born in 1932. After graduating from Tokyo University, Ambassador Owada joined the Foreign Ministry of Japan and has served in various posts in the foreign service of Japan, spending a large part of his career on legal as well as United Nations affairs, on the United States, and on the Soviet Union. Having served as private secretary to the foreign minister and then to the prime minister of Japan, and in his capacity as director-general of the Treaties Bureau (principal legal advisor), deputy minister and further as vice-minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, Ambassador Owada has been instrumental in the formulation of the foreign policy of Japan.
Ambassador Owada has also participated in numerous diplomatic conferences and negotiations, both bilateral and multilateral, as Japan’s representative. As ambassador, he was permanent representative of Japan to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (1988-89) and to the United Nations (1994-98). During his tenure of office at the United Nations, he was actively engaged in the promotion of a new strategy for development in "In the Post-Cold War Era" and has been the chief architect of the "TICAD II", which Japan hosted in October 1998.
In addition to his career activities in the field of foreign affairs, Ambassador Owada has also been active in the academic world. He taught at Tokyo University for more than 25 years, and at Harvard Law School in 1979-81, 1987 and 1989. During his ambassadorship at the United Nations, he was concurrently adjunct professor of International Law at Columbia Law School and Inge Rennert Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at New York University Law School; he is also an associate member of the Institute of International Law (Associè de l'Institut de Droit International).