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Naoki Idei joined the study group to review Japan’s arbitration law on December 24, 2019 (organized by the Shouji Houmu Kenkyuukai and the Ministry of Justice).

Naoki Idei assumed the position of managing director and vice chairman of the Japan International Dispute Resolution Center (JIDRC) as of December 13, 2019.

Two of Kojima Law Offices partners, Hideki Kojima and Naoki Idei, have been recognized as among the foremost and ablest legal practitioners in their practice areas in Who’s Who Legal Japan 2019. This number of lawyers so recognized in a modest-sized firm is an extraordinary accomplishment on par with the ratio of lawyers recognized at the largest and most affluent firms in Japan. Who’s Who Legal is published in 150 jurisdictions around the world in print and at whoswholegal.com by Law Business Research Ltd., an independent London-based publishing group.

Hiromasa Ogawa served as a panelist on “The Impact of Anti-Trust & Competition Law on Doing Business in Asia”, which Meritas and the ACCRALAW law firm co-hosted in Manila on November 14, 2019.

Osamu Ishida and Darcy Kishida co-authored the Japan chapter of the Meritas publication, “A Global Roadmap to Personal Data Protection” (2nd Edition). You can download a complimentary copy here: https://www.meritas.org/DataProtectionGuide.aspx

Naoki Idei served as a panelist at the International Bar Leaders’ Senate session on IT/AI at the Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA) annual congress held in Luxembourg on November 7, 2019.

We are pleased to announce that Mutsuki Shibata joined the firm as an associate on August 1, 2019.