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Full-time Staff

	IMAMURA Tetsuya
	Research Themes and Achievements	Engaged in historical study of legal concept of “police” as basis of study of administrative law and comparative study of police legal theory in consideration of today’s security issues

	USUI Mitsuaki
	Research Themes and Achievements	Role of administrative appeal review organization, legal problems related to so-called privatization of administration, legal regulation of governmental expenses

	URATA Ichiro
	Research Themes and Achievements	After studying French constitutional history, analyze pacifism, especially associated governmental view, logically and historically. Study the role of constitutionalism.

	EJIMA Akiko
	Research Themes and Achievements	The Symbiotic relationship between the domestic constitution and the international human rights treaty; the Human Rights Act 1998 (UK) and the European Convention on Human Rights; The constitutional status of the European Court of Human Rights; political funding and legal system; the anti-terrorism legislation and human rights; The use of foreign precedents by the Supreme Court of Japan

	SEINO Kikuko
	Research Themes and Achievements	Focusing on the “constitution and the environment,” study of German precedent theory whose impact on Japanese constitutional law is substantial and whose theory is sophisticated. Study of actual administrative practice in the 12th year of Information Disclosure and Personal Information Protection Review Board (for local regions).

	TAKAHASHI Kazuyuki
	Research Themes and Achievements	After studying constitutional thoughts, constitutional litigations, and parliamentary Cabinet system in France, study of general theory of human rights at present.

	NISHINO Akira
	Research Themes and Achievements	Reconstruction of legal structure of state compensation. Systematic reconstruction of state compensation act based on illegality concepts. As a special commissioner in the council of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, I’m engaged in improvement of the vaccination administration.

	AOYAMA Yosimitsu
	Research Themes and Achievements	Transition of civil proceeding laws, judicial system reform

	ASAO Shigeki
	Research Themes and Achievements	Prominent Cases: Ruling by the Tokyo High Court in the sex discrimination case nullifying the mandatory retirement system of Nissan Motor; ruling by the Tokyo High Court in the case of seeking an injunction against publishing the novel Ishi ni Oyogu Sakana (The Fish Swimming in the Stone); ruling by the Tokyo High Court approving the obligation to disclose the transactional history of moneylenders; legislative activity for the Act Concerning Expenses, etc., of Civil Proceedings; involvement in the formation of 17 court decisions in civil actions by the Supreme Court; and a former member of the Examination Board for Judicial Apprentices.

	IZUMIDA Eiichi
	Research Themes and Achievements	Comparative Companies Act, Securities Act

	ITO Eiko
	Research Themes and Achievements	National Bar Examination Commissioner (in Charge of Civil Code), and member of the Japan Association of the Law of Civil Procedure

	UEHARA Toshio
	Research Themes and Achievements	Law of civil procedure, debtor-creditor law and insolvbency law. Support for development of legal system in asian countries.

	OTAKI Atsuko
	Research Themes and Achievements	In addition to general civil cases (financial, real estate, corporate cases, etc.) in Japan, engaged in family cases and criminal cases. Civil affairs conciliation board member, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, National Health Insurance Collection Rate Improvement Advisor

	OHASHI Mayumi
	Research Themes and Achievements	Solving system for cases and conflicts related to household and family (as well as family conciliations, family trials, and personal status suits, solving systems outside court is also included as a study subject)

	KAWACHI Takashi
	Research Themes and Achievements	Study of institutions of stock corporations 'shareholders' meeting and board members, Comparative study of trading laws of Japan, the United States, and Germany

	KUDO Yuugen
	Research Themes and Achievements	Main study theme has been nonexempt property preservation system, focusing on subrogation rights of creditors. At present, we are interested in problems of the Civil Code in financial law trading such as mortgage act.

	SATO Takanori
	Research Themes and Achievements	Significance of presumed facts in the Product Liability Law, theory on causation in lawsuits for compensation for special damage, such as the range of possible causes of dust in a suit on pneumoconiosis; professor of Civil Law at the Legal Training and Research Institute (2007-2010)

	SUZUKI Naohisa
	Research Themes and Achievements	As well as lawsuits, I was in charge of civil cases involving protection, execution, and bankruptcy, family cases, and criminal cases in courts across Japan.

	TSUBAKI Kumiko
	Research Themes and Achievements	Personal and real security, such as corporate surety, accident security, and real guarantee, Cancellation of act of law, mutui datio, sub-agent, statute of limitations, pet laws

	TSUBURAYA Takashi
	Research Themes and Achievements	Study of contract law (contractual negotiation theory), tort law, and consumption law. Comparative study of contractual theory in German laws and common laws and tort law theory and those of Japan.

	NAITOH　Takeshi
	Research Themes and Achievements	Various corporate affairs, including corporate rehabilitation, liquidation, insolvency, corporate realignment, M&A, and other general legal practices including arbitration and litigation.

	NAKAMURA Hajime
	Research Themes and Achievements	Study of thought background and historical development of binding effect of contracts and contract liability. Comparative study of contract law and act law.

	NAKAYAMA Koji
	Research Themes and Achievements	Invalidity of due process of law and remedy, stability of res judicata and its limits, consumer right to access the court

	NAKAYAMA Tomomi
	Research Themes and Achievements	Study of basic theory of mortgage law system and general theory of civil act in comparison with Germany law. At present, I am interested in real subrogation, real property right, guarantee, agent, and legal multi-relations.

	NAYA Hiromi
	Research Themes and Achievements	In the area of Code of Civil Procedure, the study of the characteristics of tort suits with the advent of new personal conflicts, point out the limits of traditional theory of Code of Civil Procedure, and attempt to reconstruct theory.

	HIRATA Atsushi
	Research Themes and Achievements	Approach to the shape of family in super-aging society, public and private, and public nature and privatism principle based on Civil Code and social welfare act. Study of comprehensive social construction principle.

	FUJIHARA Toshio
	Research Themes and Achievements	Legal problems of M&A trading, stock corporation management supervision

	MASUDA Kaichirou
	Research Themes and Achievements	Contract civil defense professor at Legal Training and Research Institute delegated (1994-1997), member and vice chairman of Japan Federation of Bar Association Judicial Apprentice Committee, Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association vice president, executive director of Japan Federation of Bar Association, chairman of Japan Federation of Bar Association Control Committee on Lawyers Cooperating with Non-judicial organization

	MATSUYAMA Miwako
	Research Themes and Achievements	Management supervision for large-scale stock corporations, Legal problems concerning institutional investors

	MITSUBAYASHI Hiroshi
	Research Themes and Achievements	Securities for aggregate claims, mortgage, defeasance period (extinctive prescription and statute of limitation), theory of acts of law, lease transactions

	YAMADA Katsushige
	Research Themes and Achievements	As a designated professor of Meiji University Law School, I offer lectures on international transaction and e-commerce. Manager of the Tokyo Bar Association International Transaction Law Division (2002-) and visiting professor at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Center for Innovation and Intellectual Property (2003-2007)

	ABE Rikiya
	Research Themes and Achievements	Comparative study of theory of principal and accomplice, especially on the structure of co-perpetration

	UEDA Kouichi
	Research Themes and Achievements	Former prosecutor. I have served as a chief of the Ministry of Justice, Criminal Affairs Bureau, International Affairs Division; manager of the Special Investigation Department of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor’s Office; president of the Research and Training Institute of the Ministry of Justice; chief public prosecutor of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor’s Office; deputy prosecutor general of the Supreme Public Prosecutors’ Office; and superintendent public prosecutor of the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors’ Office

	KAWABATA Hiroshi
	Research Themes and Achievements	Elucidation of basic structure of crime theory and conditions for crime, elucidation of the structure and operation of criminal proceedings

	KAWANABE Yoshimasa
	Research Themes and Achievements	Former judge, instructor at the Legal Research and Training Institute, department chief judge of the Tokyo High Court, Old National Bar Examination commissioner (in charge of Criminal Code), and New National Bar Examination commissioner (Criminal Code)

	KURASHINA Naofumi
	Research Themes and Achievements	With my abundant experience with various criminal cases, I study the role of theory and practice and have always improved my expertise by assuming a civil defense instructor at the Legal Research and Training Institute (1996-1999) and handling other legal problems such as suits against local governments.

	SHIBUSA Syugo
	Research Themes and Achievements	Engaged in investigations and trials from prosecutor’s offices and criminal cases around the country since appointment as public prosecutor. Public prosecutor attached to the Personnel Department of the Secretary of Minister of Justice, research director at the Research & Training Institute, chief public prosecutor at the Yamagata District Public Prosecutors’ Office, and public prosecutor in the Supreme Public Prosecutors’ Office. Old National Bar Examination Commissioner.

	SHIMIZU Makoto
	Research Themes and Achievements	Functions of criminal defense, functions of attendant lawyers in juvenile trials, medical accidents and application of criminal law

	SUNOUCHI Katsuhiko
	Research Themes and Achievements	Function of criminal law in contemporary society (approach based on interests protected by law and justification)

	TSUJIWAKI Yoko
	Research Themes and Achievements	Study of the role of juvenile justice and criminal justice to address juvenile crimes and problems of crime victims from the perspective of communication between interested subjects

	TSUDA Shigenori
	Research Themes and Achievements	Focusing on self-defense and emergency help (justifiable defense for the sake of others), study of historical development and contemporary problems. Comparative study of emergency help.

	TEZUKA Akira
	Research Themes and Achievements	Worked on civil cases such as suits, execution, and protection as a judge, as well as criminal cases and juvenile cases. As a lawyer, serve as an on-duty lawyer and public defender.

	MATSUMOTO Jyunya
	Research Themes and Achievements	Lecturer at Chiba Prefectural Agricultural College for realization and application of basic principles of criminal trials, end-of-life care, and the criminal code (in charge of study of law, etc), member of the Crime Victims Support Committee of the Yokohama Bar Association, auditor of the NPO Kanagawa Victim Support Center, and a member of the Kanagawa Medical Problems Defense Group.

	MIKI Yoshihito
	Research Themes and Achievements	I belong to the Criminal Defense Committee and Citizen Judge System Committee of the Bar Association and study the role of criminal defense activities in citizen judge trials.

	OKUWAKI Naoya
	Research Themes and Achievements	Theory of International Dispute Settlement System, Theory of Marine Jurisdiction, and Theory of Structural Change in International Order

	KUMAGAI Kenichi
	Research Themes and Achievements	Involved in legislative work as an examiner in the Patent Office and in the Patent Office, General Affairs Department, Industrial Property System Reform Office, and Ministry of International Trade and Industry Policy Bureau Intellectual Property Policy Office. At present, engaged in comprehensive study of intellectual property policy.

	KURIHARA Osamu
	Research Themes and Achievements	Corporate activities and law such as matters relating with securities regulations, corporate finance and corporate governance. I have experience working in the Industrial Bank of Japan (currently Mizuho Financial Group) and its domestic and overseas securities subsidiaries. I also have experience in working at the economic research department of the bank.

	SUZUKI Syuichi
	Research Themes and Achievements	Engaged, mainly in the United States, in corporate acquisition, joint ventures, project finance, corporate financing deals, and other international business transactions, as well as international litigation including antitrust lawsuits.

	SUZUKI Toshihiro
	Research Themes and Achievements	Prevention of medical harm and relief, theory of patient rights and human rights. Engaged in many civil medical malpractice suits (plaintiff’s lawyer). Serve as a representative of the Defense Counsel on Medical Issues, executive director of Tokyo HIV Lawsuit Defense Counsel, representative of the National Defense Counsel on Drug-induced Hepatitis and representative of Yakugai ombudsperson.

	TAKAKURA Shigeo
	Research Themes and Achievements	International negotiations on intellectual property, patent system reform, and development of intellectual property personnel

	TAKAHASHI Iwakazu
	Research Themes and Achievements	I mainly study problems concerning international harmonization of antitrust law. I also study the area of commercial law and consumer law as well as exercise of intellectual property and relation between relaxation of regulation on public services and antitrust law.

	TSUNODA Yukiko
	Research Themes and Achievements	I am doing research on gender and law. The themes of my research include from family law, rape law, sex discrimination in employment law, sexual harassment, domestic violence, pornography to prostitution.

	NOGAWA Shinobu
	Research Themes and Achievements	I have conducted comparative studies of labor laws in the EU, especially Germany, and Japan. In addition to focusing on the establishment of international legal systems, such as problems of foreign workers, I’m also dedicated to systemizing Japanese labor policies by studying the role of worker representative systems and active employment policy and reorganization of marine labor system centered on seafarers. ILO Japanese government representative adviser (2002-), Labor Policy Council public-interest commissioner (2009-), Transportation Policy Council Public-interest commissioner (2007-), former Central Labour Relations Commission for Seafarers public-interest commissioner (2006-2007), member of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Policy Assessment Advisory Council (2001-), former executive director of Japanisch-Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Arbeitsrecht (2002-2006)

	MATSUMURA Yumihiko
	Research Themes and Achievements	Environmental responsibility (especially causal theory), scientific uncertainty and legal assessment, environmental agreement, soil protection.

	YANAGI Kenichiro
	Research Themes and Achievements	Study of environmental law policy, study of European environmental laws, study of environmental laws of developing countries. Serve as an executive board member of the Japan Association for Environmental Law and Policy, executive board member and executive director of the Japan Society for Impact Assessment, executive board member of the Society of Environmental Science, member of the Pollution-related Health Damage Compensation Act Dissatisfaction Review Committee, member of the Tokyo Environmental Assessment Council, chairman of the Urayasu City Environmental Council

Visiting Staff

	SHIMADA Niro
	Research Themes and Achievements	Former judge. Served as Supreme Court detective superintendent, chief of district courts in Utsunomiya and Urawa, president of the Legal Training and Research Institute, judge of high courts in Osaka and Sendai, and justice and chief judge of the Supreme Court.

	NITTA Mutsuo
	Research Themes and Achievements	Former judge. Served as an accountant general of the Supreme Court, chief of the Kofu City District Court and Family Court, minister of the Tokyo High Court, chief of the Yokohama City District Court, chief judge of the Sapporo High Court, and chief judge of the Tokyo High Court.

	HIRASAWA Muneo
	Research Themes and Achievements	After serving as a head of the Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Company Legal Office and Compliance manager, I assumed the position of manager. Former member of the Insurance Law Subcommittee of the Legislative Council of the Ministry of Justice.

Multiple-School Staff

	KAWACHI Hiroyuki
	Research Themes and Achievements	Theory of money claim, investor protection in sales of financial products, lender liability of financial institutions, cashless payment means

	NAGASAKA Jun
	Research Themes and Achievements	The structure and scope of contract liability, various aspects of civil liability in its history of differentiation, theory of service contracts

	NEMOTO Shinichi
	Research Themes and Achievements	Protection of shareholders as investors. Responsibilities of corporate executives. Continuous financial transactions.

	HAYASHI Kouji
	Research Themes and Achievements	Study of concept of invalidation, such as nullification, cancellation, and termination; study of the limits of analogy application and legal structure; abstract study of agents’ authority; theory of statute of limitations; theory of moral obligations

	NAKAZORA Toshimasa
	Research Themes and Achievements	Theory of criminal responsibility, theory of responsibility

	YAMADA Michio
	Research Themes and Achievements	Comparative study of the law of criminal evidence, analysis and reform of the present criminal procedure.

	ISHIMAE Yoshiyuki
	Research Themes and Achievements	History and current status of Republicanism

	UEI Takehisa
	Research Themes and Achievements	Study of formation and development of modern French laws, theory of personal rights in French law, personal life protection theory in French law, study of prejudicial acts in French law

	OKANO Makoto
	Research Themes and Achievements	Exchange between law and medicine in Chinese history; sovereignty, state, and legislation in Chinese history; Dunhuang and Turpan materials and legal history

	KONOMA Masamichi
	Research Themes and Achievements	Comparative study of constitutions and national system in contemporary China

	KOMURO Teruhisa
	Research Themes and Achievements	Conflict resolution in Britain in the 18th century, history of magistrate system in Britain and the United States, history of poor law

	NATSUI Takato
	Research Themes and Achievements	Internet crime, electronic certification, e-commerce, plant-associated patents, personal information protection, ADR, labor contract and worker’s accident compensation, establishment and operation of management system, information security, legal information database

	MURAKAMI Kazuhiro
	Research Themes and Achievements	Reception of European laws in modern Japan and the role of legal profession, Study report in the academies of legal history and comparative family history; participation in joint study funded by grants-in-aid for scientific research

	MURAYAMA Masayuki
	Research Themes and Achievements	Study of legal processing of civil disputes, comparative study of criminal justice process, study of legal advice network for family problems

	UENO Masao
	Research Themes and Achievements	Study of problems in crime control activities and Juvenile Act and criminal cases involving juveniles. As a judge, I was responsible for criminal cases for three years and juvenile cases for four years.

	KONISHI Tomoyo
	Research Themes and Achievements	Member of the University of Tsukuba Hospital Clinical Research Ethics Review Board (from 2007), member of the University of Tsukuba Hospital Medical Ethics Board, and lecturer of the Second Level Training Workshop of the Nursing Manager System of the Yamanashi Nursing Association (from 2009).

	MAMIYA Isamu
	Research Themes and Achievements	Legal nature of trade remedy system Member of the Special Trade Measure Subcommittee of the Industrial Structure Council since March 2001

Concurrently Appointed Lecturer

	ISHIKAWA Kenji
	Research Themes and Achievements	Case Study and Constitutional Analysis of Governing System, Reconstruction of Basic Rights Dogmatic, Reconstitution of Theory of Property Rights, General Theory of State and Law, and History of Constitutional Law

	ISHIYAMA Takuma
	Research Themes and Achievements	Study of duty and responsibility of corporate officers in Japan, Korea, the United States, and Britain. I also study insurance laws. Serve as a mediation and conciliation commissioner for the Commodity Futures Association of Japan as an attorney at law.

	ORITA Hiroko
	Research Themes and Achievements	Study of school accidents from the perspective of contract law, study of nonprofit corporations and nonprofit organizations and their responsibility

	SASAKI Souichi
	Research Themes and Achievements	Participation in the Defense Group of Civil Suits Considering Retrials of Criminal Cases Involving Juveniles. Consultation at the Circle of Bereaved Families of National Traffic Accidents. Consultation. Legal Advice to Ward Residents on Civil Law at the Taito Ward Office.

	TAKAHASHI Keiichiro
	Research Themes and Achievements	Revisions to Law of Obligations, Legal Responsibilities of Corporate Officers.

	TOKUMOTO Minoru
	Research Themes and Achievements	Comparative study of corporate acquisition, comparative study of corporate governance, study of international companies act

	YAMAZAKI Yuichiro
	Research Themes and Achievements	A member of the Tokyo Bar Association Legal Profession Training Center (1998 to the present, vice chairman and director general of the year 2008), instructor in charge of the defense of civil cases attached to the Legal Research and Training Institute (1999-2002), a member of the Summary Court Procedural Attorney Ability Qualification Examination (2006-2007), a member of the Japan Law Foundation Law Schools Certification Evaluation Committee (2009), and a member of the Specialist Researcher of the Suginami Ward Examination Committee for Construction (2007 to the present)

	MATSUI Chiaki
	Research Themes and Achievements	Focusing on the function of the Criminal Code to protect human rights, I study crime reporting damage, relationship between death with dignity/self-determination right and the Criminal Code, and death penalty and life sentence, as well as problems concerning the structure and strafwurdigkeit of careless offenses

	OHMURA Kenzo
	Research Themes and Achievements	Amendment of Remuneration Act on government officials, review of each country’s compliance with ILO conventions for each country (dispatch from ILO), deliberations on administrative and financial problems of the U.N.(dispatch to the Foreign Ministry), establishment of Law for Childcare Leave for government officials

	TAKASHIO Hiroshi
	Research Themes and Achievements	Study of criminal laws and penalties of the Edo Shogunate and various domains. I explore generation and development of the penal system based on correction and improvement policies.

	TAGUCHI Sadanobu
	Research Themes and Achievements	Politico-bureaucratic relationship, regulation system between governance systems

	HAYASHI Ryozo
	Research Themes and Achievements	Economic analysis of law and public policy, corporate governance, energy market, economic structure reform and policy making process

	AKASHI Kazuhide
	Research Themes and Achievements	Planning and presentation of comprehensive settlements by taking into consideration the relevance to related laws, such as the Anti-Monopoly Act, the Securities and Exchange Act, the Civil Code, and the Commercial Code; the problems of accounting and tax affairs; and revitalization of business by using debt-for-equity swaps.

	IKEMOTO Seiji
	Research Themes and Achievements	Member of the Consumer Affairs Committee of Japan Federation of Bar Association, visiting lecturer at the National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan, member of the Installment Sales Subcommittee of Industrial Structure Council, chairman of the National Liaison Committee of Anti-Credit Fraud

	IMAI Tadashi
	Research Themes and Achievements	Human rights protection in the U.N., domestic implementation of international human rights, development of the Convention against Torture & Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

	IMAMURA Takashi
	Research Themes and Achievements	Served as former public prosecutor of litigation, director of the Tax Litigation Division, Litigation Bureau, Ministry of Justice, and a public prosecutor in the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors’ Office. Studying with the aim of introducing the theory of requirement facts in tax litigation in addition to studying the problem of tax avoidance and various problems of international taxation.

	OGASAWARA Johji
	Research Themes and Achievements	Responsible for the legal affairs and debt collection service for a long period of time at Dai-ichi Kangyo Bank and Mizuho Bank. Involved in the establishment and revisions to bank transaction clauses as a member of the Japanese Bankers Association. Studied bank legal affairs and leases in the capacity of intra-company legal affairs personnel.

	KASUBUCHI Isao
	Research Themes and Achievements	Comparative legal system with other countries with regard to the procedures of antitrust law, and regulation of abuse of dominant barraging position.

	SATO Toshiaki
	Research Themes and Achievements	Disclosure and audit system in business law. Auditing system and practices in large public companies. Corporate governance.

	TACHIKAWA Syouzaburo
	Research Themes and Achievements	Taxation of new entities, organizational reconstruction of the tax system, tax avoidance using overseas transactions, consolidated taxation

	FUJIMOTO Tetsuya
	Research Themes and Achievements	History of prisons, harmful environment for juveniles, the Juvenile Act, cause of and countermeasures against juvenile delinquency, origin of penalties on freedom, treatment and rehabilitation of criminals, crimescommitted by Japanese living in the United States, and the theory of American criminology