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THE PANEL OF JUDGES

Chairperson

  • 1967(1) - 1973(3)
    Hideo Saito
  • 1976(4) - 1994(10)
    Takashi Asahina
  • 1997(11) - 2018(18)
    Yuzo Toyama
  • 2021(19) -
    Tadaaki Otaka

The Panel of Judges

  • 1967(1), 1970(2)
    Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Takashi Asahina, Nobori Kaneko, Tadashi Mori,Yoichiro Omachi, Seiji Ozawa, Yuzo Toyama, Hiroshi Wakasugi,Akeo Watanabe, Kazuo Yamada
  • 1973(3)
    Tadashi Mori(Assistant Chairperson), Kazuyoshi Akiyama,Takashi Asahina, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Nobori Kaneko, Yoichiro Omachi,Seiji Ozawa, Yuzo Toyama, Hiroshi Wakasugi, Akeo Watanabe,Kazuo Yamada
  • 1976(4), 1979(5)
    Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Franco Ferrara, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Nobori Kaneko, Tadashi Mori, Yoichiro Omachi, Seiji Ozawa, Yuzo Toyama,Hiroshi Wakasugi, Akeo Watanabe, Kazuo Yamada
  • 1982(6)
    Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Arvid Jansons, Nobori Kaneko,Kenichiro Kobayashi, Tadashi Mori, Yoichiro Omachi, Seiji Ozawa, Yukinori Tezuka, Shinji Toyama, Yuzo Toyama, Hiroshi Wakasugi,Akeo Watanabe, Kazuo Yamada
  • 1985(7)
    Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Nobori Kaneko, Kenichiro Kobayashi,Zdenek Kosler, Tadashi Mori, Yoichiro Omachi, Seiji Ozawa,Yuri Simonov, Yukinori Tezuka, Shinji Toyama, Yuzo Toyama,Akeo Watanabe, Kazuo Yamada
    * Preliminary Rounds in Solingen : Sylvia Caduff, Hermann Lang,Vorker Wangenheim
    * Preliminary Rounds in Moscow : Kazuo Yamada
  • 1988(8)
    Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Marius Constant, Walter Homburger,Hiroyuki Iwaki, Herbert Kegel, Hermann Lang, Karl Osterreicher,Tadaaki Otaka, Seiji Ozawa, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Yuzo Toyama,Akeo Watanabe, Kazuo Yamada, Toru Yasunaga
    * Preliminary Rounds in Tokyo : Serge Baudo, Sylvia Caduff,Yukirori Tezuka
    * Preliminary Rounds in Solingen : Sylvia Caduff, Pavle Despalj,Otmar Suitner, Christian Suss
    * Preliminary Rounds in Moscow : Vasily Sinaisky, Vladimir Sukhanov,Isidor Zak
  • 1991(9)
    Marcello Abbado, Anton Fietz, Henry Fogel, Walter Homburger,Michiyoshi Inoue, Hermann Lang, Geza Oberfrank, Karl Österreicher,Claude Samuel, Hikmet Simsek, Yukinori Tezuka, Yuzo Toyama
    * Preliminary Rounds in Tokyo : Kazuo Yamada(Deputy Chairperson),Saburo Kurematsu, Ondrej Lenard
    * Preliminary Rounds in Vienna : Tadaaki Otaka, Otmar Suitner
  • 1994(10)
    Hiroyuki Iwaki, Yuzo Toyama(Vice Chairperson), Yousef El-Sisi,Henry Fogel, Walter Homburger, Claude Samuel, Yukinori Tezuka,Naohiro Totsuka
    * Preliminary Rounds in Tokyo : Hiroshi Wakasugi
    * Preliminary Rounds in Dallas/Fort Worth : John Giordano,Kazuhiro Koizumi
    * Preliminary Rounds in Vienna : Harald Goertz
  • 1997(11)
    Marcello Abbado, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, George Cleve, Denis de Coteau,John Drummond, Marc-Olivier Dupin, Kazuhiro Koizumi, Lim Won-Sik,Georges Octors, Tadaaki Otaka, Claude Samuel, Yukinori Tezuka,Hiroshi Wakasugi
  • 2000(12)
    Marcello Abbado, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Kazuhiro Koizumi,Uwe Mund,Tadaaki Otaka, Jorma Panula, Claude Samuel, Yukinori Tezuka
  • 2003(13)
    Marcello Abbado, Michiyoshi Inoue, Uwe Mund, Tadaaki Otaka,Jorma Panula, Claude Samuel, Karl Suske, Yukinori Tezuka,Toshiaki Umeda
  • 2006(14)
    Michiyoshi Inoue, Tadaaki Otaka, Jorma Panula, Claude Samuel,Karl Suske, Kazufumi Yamashita
  • 2009(15)
    Claire Gibault,Peter Gülke,Junichi Hirokami,Rainer Küchl,Tadaaki Otaka,Jorma Panula,Hubert Soudant,Ken Takaseki
  • 2012(16)
    Peter Gülke,Werner Hink,Junichi Hirokami,Alexander Lazarev,Tadaaki Otaka,Jorma Panula,Claude Samuel,Ken Takaseki
  • 2015(17)
    Mike George,Werner Hink,Junichi Hirokami,Gunter Kahlert,Tadaaki Otaka,Hubert Soudant,Ken Takaseki
  • 2018(18)
    Tadaaki Otaka,Junichi Hirokami,Ken Takaseki,Werner Hink,Alexander Lazarev,Dong-Suk Kang,Peter Pastreich,Hubert Soudant
  • * Listing names of judges who served only those preliminary rounds.