Mineichirō Adachi

In 1903–1904, he served as Counsellor to the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and also taught international law and diplomatic history at Tokyo University.

In 1905, he was a member of the Japanese delegation that negotiated in Portsmouth the peace treaty ending the Russo-Japanese War.

In 1915–1916, he took part in a Japanese Red Cross mission in Russia, then suffering from ravages of the First World War.

In 1917, he was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to Belgium, and in that capacity participated in the Japanese delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.

During that conference, he also served as member of the Commission of Responsibilities, which recommended prosecuting German leaders accused of war crimes.