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Kohei Nasu

Japanese judge

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ6425959 ↗
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Kohei Nasu (那須 弘平, Nasu Kōhei; born February 11, 1942) is a former member of the Supreme Court of Japan. He was appointed to the court on May 25, 2006, and reached mandatory retirement age in 2012. He was succeeded by Masaharu Ōhashi.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Kohei Nasu” as japanese judge. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1942, 2006, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1942-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Kohei, Nasu and Japanese can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as japanese judge. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6425959. VIAF identifies the subject as 117391632. The Library of Congress control number is nr00000039. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1942, 2006 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kohei Nasu” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.