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THE PANEL OF JUDGES
Chairperson
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1967(1) - 1973(3)Hideo Saito
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1976(4) - 1994(10)Takashi Asahina
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1997(11) - 2018(18)Yuzo Toyama
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2021(19) -Tadaaki Otaka
The Panel of Judges
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1967(1), 1970(2)Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Takashi Asahina, Nobori Kaneko, Tadashi Mori, Yoichiro Omachi, Seiji Ozawa, Yuzo Toyama, Hiroshi Wakasugi, Akeo Watanabe, Kazuo Yamada
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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
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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
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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
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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
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2000(12)Marcello Abbado, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Kazuhiro Koizumi, Uwe Mund, Tadaaki Otaka, Jorma Panula, Claude Samuel, Yukinori Tezuka
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2003(13)Marcello Abbado, Michiyoshi Inoue, Uwe Mund, Tadaaki Otaka, Jorma Panula, Claude Samuel, Karl Suske, Yukinori Tezuka, Toshiaki Umeda
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2006(14)Michiyoshi Inoue, Tadaaki Otaka, Jorma Panula, Claude Samuel, Karl Suske, Kazufumi Yamashita
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2009(15)Claire Gibault, Peter Gülke, Junichi Hirokami, Rainer Küchl, Tadaaki Otaka, Jorma Panula, Hubert Soudant, Ken Takaseki
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2012(16)Peter Gülke, Werner Hink, Junichi Hirokami, Alexander Lazarev, Tadaaki Otaka, Jorma Panula, Claude Samuel, Ken Takaseki
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2015(17)Mike George, Werner Hink, Junichi Hirokami, Gunter Kahlert, Tadaaki Otaka, Hubert Soudant, Ken Takaseki
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2018(18)Tadaaki Otaka, Junichi Hirokami, Ken Takaseki, Werner Hink, Alexander Lazarev, Dong-Suk Kang, Peter Pastreich, Hubert Soudant
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2021(19)Tadaaki Otaka, Sian Edwards, Junichi Hirokami, Okko Kamu, Rainer Küchl, Jun Märkl, Hubert Soudant, Ken Takaseki, Toshiaki Umeda
- * Listing names of judges who served only those preliminary rounds.