Maiko Meguro is Research Fellow at Amsterdam Centre for International Law, University of Amsterdam and Lead Coordinator and Senior Policy Analyst of the OECDYota Negishi is Professor of Public International Law at Seinan Gakuin University, Fukuoka, Japan

• Introduction - Meguro Maiko and Negishi Yota1 SENGA Tsurutaro: Positivism against Civilizational Eurocentrism in International Law - TOYODA Tetsuya 2 YOKOTA Kisaburo: Between Value-Neutrality, and Internationalist, Pacifist, and Democratic Ideals – TANAKA Hinako3 TAOKA Ryoichi: Doctor eximius as an steadfast origin point in Japanese tradition – FUKUSHIMA Ryoshi4 YASUI Kaoru: From academic to activist - YAMASHITA Tomoko5 TANAKA Kotaro: An unparalleled jurist with natural law tradition – OGURI Hirofumi6 TABATA Shigejiro: Japan’s leading authority in the 20th century on international law and its history - KANETAKE Machiko7 SOGAWA Takeo: Anti-positivist and activist scholar - NISHI Taira8 YAMAMOTO Soji: Thorough positivist in Japanese international law society - MORITA Akio9 ISHIMOTO Yasuo: The ‘structural transformation’ of international law - WANI Kentaro10 MATSUI Yoshiro: The social science of international law - KODERA Satoshi11 KOTERA Akira: Struggle of international legal scholars living on the ‘periphery’ of international law - MEGURO Maiko12 ONUMA Yasuaki: A transcivilisationalist international lawyer- KAKU Shun13 MOGAMI Toshiki: An unfrenzied normative realist - NEGISHI Yota

Maiko Meguro is Research Fellow at Amsterdam Centre for International Law, University of Amsterdam and Lead Coordinator and Senior Policy Analyst of the OECDYota Negishi is Professor of Public International Law at Seinan Gakuin University, Fukuoka, Japan

• Introduction - Meguro Maiko and Negishi Yota1 SENGA Tsurutaro: Positivism against Civilizational Eurocentrism in International Law - TOYODA Tetsuya 2 YOKOTA Kisaburo: Between Value-Neutrality, and Internationalist, Pacifist, and Democratic Ideals – TANAKA Hinako3 TAOKA Ryoichi: Doctor eximius as an steadfast origin point in Japanese tradition – FUKUSHIMA Ryoshi4 YASUI Kaoru: From academic to activist - YAMASHITA Tomoko5 TANAKA Kotaro: An unparalleled jurist with natural law tradition – OGURI Hirofumi6 TABATA Shigejiro: Japan’s leading authority in the 20th century on international law and its history - KANETAKE Machiko7 SOGAWA Takeo: Anti-positivist and activist scholar - NISHI Taira8 YAMAMOTO Soji: Thorough positivist in Japanese international law society - MORITA Akio9 ISHIMOTO Yasuo: The ‘structural transformation’ of international law - WANI Kentaro10 MATSUI Yoshiro: The social science of international law - KODERA Satoshi11 KOTERA Akira: Struggle of international legal scholars living on the ‘periphery’ of international law - MEGURO Maiko12 ONUMA Yasuaki: A transcivilisationalist international lawyer- KAKU Shun13 MOGAMI Toshiki: An unfrenzied normative realist - NEGISHI Yota

Maiko Meguro is Research Fellow at Amsterdam Centre for International Law, University of Amsterdam and Lead Coordinator and Senior Policy Analyst of the OECDYota Negishi is Professor of Public International Law at Seinan Gakuin University, Fukuoka, Japan

• Introduction - Meguro Maiko and Negishi Yota1 SENGA Tsurutaro: Positivism against Civilizational Eurocentrism in International Law - TOYODA Tetsuya 2 YOKOTA Kisaburo: Between Value-Neutrality, and Internationalist, Pacifist, and Democratic Ideals – TANAKA Hinako3 TAOKA Ryoichi: Doctor eximius as an steadfast origin point in Japanese tradition – FUKUSHIMA Ryoshi4 YASUI Kaoru: From academic to activist - YAMASHITA Tomoko5 TANAKA Kotaro: An unparalleled jurist with natural law tradition – OGURI Hirofumi6 TABATA Shigejiro: Japan’s leading authority in the 20th century on international law and its history - KANETAKE Machiko7 SOGAWA Takeo: Anti-positivist and activist scholar - NISHI Taira8 YAMAMOTO Soji: Thorough positivist in Japanese international law society - MORITA Akio9 ISHIMOTO Yasuo: The ‘structural transformation’ of international law - WANI Kentaro10 MATSUI Yoshiro: The social science of international law - KODERA Satoshi11 KOTERA Akira: Struggle of international legal scholars living on the ‘periphery’ of international law - MEGURO Maiko12 ONUMA Yasuaki: A transcivilisationalist international lawyer- KAKU Shun13 MOGAMI Toshiki: An unfrenzied normative realist - NEGISHI Yota