Tadashi A Hanami

Prof. Dr Tadashi A. Hanami was born on 15 February 1930. He became a Bachelor of Law in 1953 and a Doctor of Law in 1962, at Tokyo University. From 1959 to 1962 he was Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Cologne in West Germany, and from1964 to 1965 Fulbright Research Scholar at Cornell University in the USA. From 1953 to 1958 he was a Research Fellow at Tokyo University and from 1958 to 1983 a Research Officer in the Japan Institute of Labour (JIL). Since 1966 he has been Professor of Law, from 1979 to 1982 Dean of Law School at Sophia University in Tokyo and from 1968 to 1979 a Public Commissioner on the Tokyo Metropolitan Labour Relations Commission. He was a visiting professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium where he was awarded the Doctor honoris causa in 1985 and a visiting professor at the Harvard Law School in 1984-1985 and 1990. Since 1988 he has been Chairman of the Central Labour Standards Council in Tokyo. He has been a Public Commissioner since 1992 and Chairman of the Central Labour Relations Commission since 1998. He was served as President of the International Industrial Relations Association in 1998-2000 term. He was also appointed Research Director General in 1996 and President of the JIL in 2001. Since 1999 he has been Professor Emeritus of Sophia University. In 2004 he joined Matsuo & Kosugi and has been practising law as Of Counsel. In 2004 he was decorated with the Order of the Rising Sun Gold and Silver Star. He is the author of a number of books in Japanese and English on labour law and industrial relations.