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Born on June 4, 1954 in Tokyo, Japan, Yūji Iwasawa is a jurist, judge and university teacher. That puts Yūji Iwasawa at 72 years old in 2026. Education on record includes Tokyo Metropolitan Kunitachi Senior High School and Humanities and Social Sciences I, the University of Tokyo.
My Take
What strikes me about Yuji Iwasawa is how quietly consequential his career is. From a Tokyo high school to the University of Tokyo, then to a chair in international law, and finally to the bench of the International Court of Justice, his is a life spent in the unglamorous machinery that keeps the world from sliding into pure power politics. Chairing the UN Human Rights Committee is thankless, patient work. I admire people who choose argument over force and reason over noise. In an age of loud certainties, Iwasawa represents the kind of careful, principled scholarship that rarely trends but genuinely matters.
This take was written by generative AI, one per person, from publicly reported facts (editorial policy). It is a reading of the record, not reporting.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Yūji Iwasawa
- Name (Japanese)
- 岩沢雄司
- Reading
- いわさわ ゆうじ
- Born
- June 4, 1954 (age 72)
- Origin
- Tokyo, Japan
- Occupation
- jurist / judge / university teacher
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Gemini / Horse
2. Background
- High school
- Tokyo Metropolitan Kunitachi Senior High School
- University
- Humanities and Social Sciences I, the University of Tokyo
3. Links
- Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuji%20Iwasawa
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B2%A9%E6%BE%A4%E9%9B%84%E5%8F%B8
- Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11475282
4. About this entry
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Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.
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When was Yūji Iwasawa born?
Yūji Iwasawa was born on June 4, 1954 and is 72 years old.
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Yūji Iwasawa is from Tokyo, Japan.
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Yūji Iwasawa works as jurist, judge, university teacher.
Where did Yūji Iwasawa study?
Yūji Iwasawa attended Humanities and Social Sciences I, the University of Tokyo.
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