,
Minister of Justice in 2018Iwasawa was born in Tokyo in 1954. After graduating from Kunitachi High School, he matriculated at the
College of Arts and Sciences of the
University of Tokyo in 1973. He went on to specialize in public law at the university's
Faculty of Law and graduated with an
LL.B. in 1977. He later attended
Harvard Law School in America, where he earned an
LL.M. degree. From 1982 to 1996, Iwasawa taught at
Osaka Metropolitan University (OMU) as an Associate Professor — for which he would later receive an honorary doctorate from OMU in 2018. During in his tenure there, he was awarded the 16th
Mineichiro Adachi Memorial Prize in 1983. Subsequently, he attended the
University of Virginia School of Law in America, where he completed an
S.J.D. degree in 1997. From 1991 to 1993, he taught at the
Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, part of the
University of Cambridge. In 1996, he became an assistant professor at University of Tokyo, while intermittently spending a few years at the Lauterpacht Centre again. He was appointed Professor of International Law at University of Tokyo's Faculty of Law in 2005 and remained in that role until 2018. ==References==