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Tomoko Akane

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Tomoko Akane
赤根 智子
Akane in 2025
6th President of the International Criminal Court
Incumbent
Assumed office
11 March 2024
Appointed byJudges of the ICC
Preceded byPiotr Hofmański
Judge of the International Criminal Court
Incumbent
Assumed office
11 March 2018
Nominated by Japan
Appointed byAssembly of States Parties
Personal details
Born (1956-06-28) 28 June 1956 (age 70)[1]
Nagoya, Japan
EducationUniversity of Tokyo
Jacksonville State University
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Tomoko Akane (赤根 智子, Akane Tomoko) is a Japanese jurist and current judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Japan, as well as the president of the court.[2]

Professional career

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After graduating from the University of Tokyo,[3] she became a public prosecutor in 1982. She later earned a Master of Science in Criminal Justice from Jacksonville State University in December 1990.[4] During her career, she assumed posts at different levels of the justice system.[5] She chose to become a public prosecutor due to the lack of opportunities the private sector provided for women and prosecutors, and because she wanted to be involved in serving justice to both victims and perpetrators.[6] Akane was chief prosecutor of the Hakodate district in Hokkaido between 2010 and 2012, and became a prosecutor at the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office in 2012.[7]

Akane was also a professor in criminal justice practice at both the Chukyo University Law School and the Nagoya University Law School between 2005 and 2009.[5] In Nagoya, she was also researching in the field of criminal justice reform between 2005 and 2006.[8] She was the head of the International Cooperation Department (ICD) in the Japanese Ministry of Justice between 2009 and 2010.[7] She was involved in the activities of the United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI) for more than seven years[7] and served as the director of the UNAFEI between July 2013 and October 2014.[9] From 2014 to 2016, she was the director-general of the Research and Training Institute of the Ministry of Justice. From 2016 until joining the ICC, she served as Japan's ambassador for international judicial cooperation.[7]

Fields involved

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Akane reports to valuing the ability of judicial systems in preventing people from reoffending.[10][7] During her work for the UNAFEI, she was twice deployed to Kenya, where she was involved in the training of probation officers.[11]

Judge at the International Criminal Court

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She was nominated as a candidate to the ICC in April 2016 by the Government of Japan[12] and elected as a judge of the ICC on the 4 December 2017 by the Assembly of State Parties in New York.[13] She assumed her post in March 2018 for a tenure of nine years.[6] As a pre-trial judge at the ICC she was mainly assigned to Pre-Trial Chamber II.[5]

On 20 March 2023, Russia initiated a criminal investigation against Akane, Rosario Salvatore Aitala and Sergio Gerardo Ugalde Godinez in response to an arrest warrant issued on 17 March 2023 against its president Vladimir Putin for the unlawful deportations of Ukrainian children to Russia during the Russian-Ukrainian war.[14][15][16] In July 2023, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs issued a warrant for her arrest.[17][18]

In March 2024 she was elected President of the International Criminal Court for the term 2024–2027 by the judges of the ICC.[2]

U.S. sanction

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On 18 August 2026, Akane was sanctioned by the U.S. State Department in furtherance of its recently announced diplomatic campaign to dismantle the International Criminal Court "brick by brick".[19][20]

Personal life

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She is fluent in Japanese and English.[5]

References

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  1. ↑ "ICC Judicial Nomination – curriculum vitae" (PDF). Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute. Retrieved 2025-02-20.
  2. 1 2 "New ICC Presidency elected for 2024-2027". www.icc-cpi.int. 2024-03-11. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
  3. ↑ "プーチンに逮捕状発付したICCとは？｜名古屋葵綜合法律事務所". nagoyaaoi-law.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-03-12.
  4. ↑ "Alumni Spotlight: Judge Tomoko Akane, President of the International Criminal Court". Jacksonville State University. Retrieved 2026-08-21.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Judge Tomoko Akane". International Criminal Court. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
  6. 1 2 "Tomoko Akane". intlschoolnet (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 "Keynote Speeches Ms. Tomoko Akane: The 3rd WORLD CONGRESS on PROBATION Tokyo JAPAN 2017". MOJ. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  8. ↑ "Akane Tomoko". 9 April 2007. Archived from the original on 20 March 2023. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  9. ↑ "Staff". UNAFEI. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  10. ↑ "Newly elected Japanese ICC judge to start work in The Netherlands in March". Mainichi Daily News. 2018-03-04. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  11. ↑ Akane, Tomoko (January 2015). "Activities of and legal technical assistance by The United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders" (PDF). ICD News. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  12. ↑ "Japan State Response" (PDF). www.coalitionfortheicc.org. April 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 6, 2017. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
  13. ↑ "The Election of Ms. Tomoko Akane, Ambassador for International Judicial Cooperation and Public Prosecutor of Supreme Public Prosecutors Office of Japan as Judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC) (Statement by Foreign Minister Taro Kono)". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  14. ↑ "Situation in Ukraine: ICC judges issue arrest warrants against Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova". International Criminal Court. 17 March 2023.
  15. ↑ "Russia blasts back at ICC over Putin arrest warrant". POLITICO. 2023-03-20. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
  16. ↑ "Russia defies Putin arrest warrant by opening its own case against ICC". SWI swissinfo.ch. Archived from the original on 2023-03-27. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
  17. ↑ "Судья МУС Томоко Аканэ объявлена в розыск в РФ". Коммерсантъ (in Russian). 2023-07-27. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
  18. ↑ Joseph, James (2023-07-27). "Russian Interior Ministry issues arrest warrant for ICC judge that issued arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin". www.jurist.org. Retrieved 2023-07-28.
  19. ↑ Bateman, Tom (18 August 2026). "US announces new sanctions on ICC president and top lawyer". BBC. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
  20. ↑ "Advancing the United States' Campaign to Address the Threat Posed by the International Criminal Court". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2026-08-18.
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