English jurisprudence advisor to Japan, international lawyer, and legal author.
De Becker married Kobayashi Ei, a Kanagawa prefecture commoner on July 29, 1891. He then applied for Japanese citizenship. Under Japanese law, he became Kobayashi Beika, although he continued to use his English name.
Ei died in 1926 from injuries sustained in the Great Earthquake of 1923. By 1919 he was married to Ethel Dorothy Susu De Becker. (Her identity is still being researched.)
Father of Marie Antoinette (De Becker) Willoughby, whose husband, Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willoughby serving as General Douglas MacArthur's Chief of Intelligence during most of World War II and the Korean War; and Edith Frances (De Becker) Sebald, whose husband, William J. Sebald, was adviser to Gen. McArthur in post-war Japan, American ambassador to Burma, 1952-1954, and U.S. Ambassador to Australia (1957-61).
AUTHOR of:
- The Criminal Code of Japan (1907)
- Annotated Civil Code of Japan (1910)
- Commentary on the Commercial Code of Japan (1913)
- Elements of Japanese Law (1916)
- International private law of Japan (1919)
- The Principles and Practice of the Civil Code of Japan (1921)
- Feudal Kamakura: Outline Sketch of the History of Kamakura from 1186 to 1333 (1907)
- The Nightless City, or the History of the Yoshiwara Yukwaku by an English Student of Sociology (1899)
De Becker married Kobayashi Ei, a Kanagawa prefecture commoner on July 29, 1891. He then applied for Japanese citizenship. Under Japanese law, he became Kobayashi Beika, although he continued to use his English name.
Ei died in 1926 from injuries sustained in the Great Earthquake of 1923. By 1919 he was married to Ethel Dorothy Susu De Becker. (Her identity is still being researched.)
Father of Marie Antoinette (De Becker) Willoughby, whose husband, Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willoughby serving as General Douglas MacArthur's Chief of Intelligence during most of World War II and the Korean War; and Edith Frances (De Becker) Sebald, whose husband, William J. Sebald, was adviser to Gen. McArthur in post-war Japan, American ambassador to Burma, 1952-1954, and U.S. Ambassador to Australia (1957-61).
AUTHOR of:
- The Criminal Code of Japan (1907)
- Annotated Civil Code of Japan (1910)
- Commentary on the Commercial Code of Japan (1913)
- Elements of Japanese Law (1916)
- International private law of Japan (1919)
- The Principles and Practice of the Civil Code of Japan (1921)
- Feudal Kamakura: Outline Sketch of the History of Kamakura from 1186 to 1333 (1907)
- The Nightless City, or the History of the Yoshiwara Yukwaku by an English Student of Sociology (1899)
English jurisprudence advisor to Japan, international lawyer, and legal author.
De Becker married Kobayashi Ei, a Kanagawa prefecture commoner on July 29, 1891. He then applied for Japanese citizenship. Under Japanese law, he became Kobayashi Beika, although he continued to use his English name.
Ei died in 1926 from injuries sustained in the Great Earthquake of 1923. By 1919 he was married to Ethel Dorothy Susu De Becker. (Her identity is still being researched.)
Father of Marie Antoinette (De Becker) Willoughby, whose husband, Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willoughby serving as General Douglas MacArthur's Chief of Intelligence during most of World War II and the Korean War; and Edith Frances (De Becker) Sebald, whose husband, William J. Sebald, was adviser to Gen. McArthur in post-war Japan, American ambassador to Burma, 1952-1954, and U.S. Ambassador to Australia (1957-61).
AUTHOR of:
- The Criminal Code of Japan (1907)
- Annotated Civil Code of Japan (1910)
- Commentary on the Commercial Code of Japan (1913)
- Elements of Japanese Law (1916)
- International private law of Japan (1919)
- The Principles and Practice of the Civil Code of Japan (1921)
- Feudal Kamakura: Outline Sketch of the History of Kamakura from 1186 to 1333 (1907)
- The Nightless City, or the History of the Yoshiwara Yukwaku by an English Student of Sociology (1899)
De Becker married Kobayashi Ei, a Kanagawa prefecture commoner on July 29, 1891. He then applied for Japanese citizenship. Under Japanese law, he became Kobayashi Beika, although he continued to use his English name.
Ei died in 1926 from injuries sustained in the Great Earthquake of 1923. By 1919 he was married to Ethel Dorothy Susu De Becker. (Her identity is still being researched.)
Father of Marie Antoinette (De Becker) Willoughby, whose husband, Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willoughby serving as General Douglas MacArthur's Chief of Intelligence during most of World War II and the Korean War; and Edith Frances (De Becker) Sebald, whose husband, William J. Sebald, was adviser to Gen. McArthur in post-war Japan, American ambassador to Burma, 1952-1954, and U.S. Ambassador to Australia (1957-61).
AUTHOR of:
- The Criminal Code of Japan (1907)
- Annotated Civil Code of Japan (1910)
- Commentary on the Commercial Code of Japan (1913)
- Elements of Japanese Law (1916)
- International private law of Japan (1919)
- The Principles and Practice of the Civil Code of Japan (1921)
- Feudal Kamakura: Outline Sketch of the History of Kamakura from 1186 to 1333 (1907)
- The Nightless City, or the History of the Yoshiwara Yukwaku by an English Student of Sociology (1899)
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