De Becker, Joseph Ernest [小林米花; Kobayashi Beika] (British-Japanese, 1863–1929)

Profession: English jurisprudence advisor to Japan; international lawyer; legal author
Birth: 7 December 1863, City of London, Greater London, England
Death: 10 February 1929 (aged 65), Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan
Burial: Kobe Municipal Foreigners Cemetery, Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan
Nationality: British by birth; naturalized Japanese (name adopted: Kobayashi Beika) in 1891

Spouses:
— Kobayashi, Ei (Japanese, fl. late 19th–early 20th century), married 29 July 1891
— De Becker, Ethel Dorothy Susu (fl. early 20th century), married by 1919

Family:
— Daughter: Marie Antoinette De Becker (married Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willoughby, Chief of Intelligence to General Douglas MacArthur)
— Daughter: Edith Frances De Becker (married William J. Sebald, adviser to General MacArthur; later U.S. Ambassador to Burma and Australia)

Works:
— The Nightless City, or the History of the Yoshiwara Yūkwaku (1899)
— The Criminal Code of Japan (1907)
— Feudal Kamakura: Outline Sketch of the History of Kamakura from 1186 to 1333 (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)

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