I write reports and articles for publication in American and foreign law and professional journals and for presentation to the United Nations and to governments. I have written more than thirty statements published by the United Nations. A list of some publications is attached to this statement. I have also given several hundred lectures at community forums and Universities in nearly thirty states of the United States and in at least fourteen countries. I have been invited by the Japanese Federation of Bar Associations and other legal groups in Japan to carry out investigation of and to prepare reports and studies on non- compliance of Japan of human rights and humanitarian law norms.
Expert opinion is a source of international law.
International Court of Justice, art. I state that the questions of international law presented to me by counsel for plaintiffs fall within the area of law about which I have been determined by courts to be expert. Japan is currently bound by customary international law and fundamental principles of law in force now. In my opinion the acts alleged by plaintiffs were violations of international law at the time they were committed and the plaintiffs in this suit have a right to compensation awarded by this Court as victims of the jugun ianfu scheme. The following defends this opinion.