In Memory of Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali (4 May 2016) I first met Mr. Boutros Boutros-Ghali in 1981 when I was a staff member of the UN Codification Division servicing the International Law Commission here in Geneva. I saw him coming to the Commission meetings with his two bodyguards. He had been known as an architect…… Continue reading Obituaries at ILC (Mr. Boutros Boutros-Gali)
Month: August 2017
Obituaries at ILC (Mr. Chusei Yamada)
Tribute to the Memory of Ambassador Chusei Yamada (8 May 2013) [Ambassador Yamada was a Member of the ILC (1992 – 2009), its Chairman (2000), and Special Rapporteur on the topic of Shared Natural Resources (2001 – 2008).] I would like to begin with an episode from Ambassador Yamada’s boyhood. When the atomic bomb was…… Continue reading Obituaries at ILC (Mr. Chusei Yamada)
Obituaries at ILC (Prof. Choung Il Chee)
In memory of Professor Choung Il Chee (2012) I learned from Dr. Park yesterday of the sad departure of Professor Choung Il Chee, and I would like to offer my sympathy as a fellow Asian member of the Commission. I met him only a few times when he visited our international law society meetings in…… Continue reading Obituaries at ILC (Prof. Choung Il Chee)
Summaries of My Novels (1)
Waiting for a Shooting Star, (Nagareboshi wo Machinagara, Toshindo Publishing Co., Tokyo, 2005, by Ko Takimura (Shinya Murase), pp.1-184, in Japanese.) Main Characters: Yusuke Tajima, born in 1969. (The name Yusuke literally means “a brave man”). Yumi Tajima, born in 1972, Yusuke’s sister Tomokazu Ogata, born in 1969, Yusuke’s friend, who serves as the narrator…… Continue reading Summaries of My Novels (1)
Summaries of My Novels (2)
Putting Out the Light: A Profile of a Scholar, in Ko Takimura (Shinya Murase), Nagareboshi wo Machinagara, Toshindo Publishing Co., Tokyo, 2005, pp. 185-314, in Japanese. Main Characters Yuji Kiyama: born in 1943, a history professor Mariko Sano: born in 1955, a silk-dying-printing artist Jiro Muramatsu: Kiyama’s friend, a history professor, involved in UNESCO activities…… Continue reading Summaries of My Novels (2)
Conversation with the United Nations Legal Counsel at ILC
My statement on the occasion of the Visit of Mr. Miguel de Serpa Soares, Legal Counsel of the United Nations, Under-Secretary-General, to the International Law Commission: 17 May 2016, 11:30 am, Shinya Murase [I wanted that the people of the world know that a small university called CYU had existed.] Mr. Soares, it is always…… Continue reading Conversation with the United Nations Legal Counsel at ILC
Commemorative Event of Book Donation
25 September 2015, CYU Library Address by Shinya Murase Thank you, Mr. Vice President Lin and Dean Wu, for your kindest words, by which I am just overwhelmed. When I first heard of this ceremony, I did not think it necessary, because my donation is indeed a very modest one, and it is not worth…… Continue reading Commemorative Event of Book Donation
Farewell to CYU
I heard that the emblem of CYU (China Youth University of Political Studies, Beijing) was removed from its main gate today. This is the end of the excellent institution that has contributed to educating so many brilliant young leaders of China over the decades. I immensely enjoyed teaching at its Law School during the past…… Continue reading Farewell to CYU
Memories of the Group
I started teaching three years ago at a small law school in China after having retired from a university in Japan. While the Japan-China relations have not been the best, the people-to-people relations have always been very warm and friendly, and the professors and students of this law school have been extremely kind to me.…… Continue reading Memories of the Group
Obituary: Prof. Ishimoto
In Memoriam PROFESSOR DR. YASUO ISHIMOTO (1924-2015) Shinya Murase Professor Yasuo Ishimoto passed away on December 8, 2015, at the age of ninety-one. He was a leading scholar of international law of postwar Japan. He held a number of important positions in academic institutions, including president of the International Law Association of Japan (ILA Japan…… Continue reading Obituary: Prof. Ishimoto
Environs of International Law 