One of 2024’s top 3 best-performing AI, Tech, and Data lawyers (as selected by companies) in Nikkei’s corporate legal affairs and lawyer survey of the Japanese market
Nikkei
Introduction
His practice areas are data privacy, AI, intellectual property, digital regulation, and IT. He has extensive experience advising foreign clients about Japanese data protection law. He is also familiar with global data protection regulations. He has extensive experience with IT and technology disputes, including IP and software litigation. His practice and academic research encompass legal issues relating to cybernetic avatars (including avatars for use in the metaverse and robots).
Practices
Seminars
- January 21, 2025 (Tue) 16:30 p.m. - 18:00 p.m.“An Update on U.S. Privacy Regulations and a Lookahead to What to Expect in 2025”
- September 5, 2024 (Thu) 4:45 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. (CET)”Cyber Avatars, Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: The Japanese Perspective”
- July 29, 2024 (Mon) 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m."Ensuring Safety and Security for Cybernetic Avators: Addressing E3LSI Challenges"
Major Awards
- Recognized in Lexology Index Global Elite Thought Leader Client Choice 2025 – Data
- Recognized in Best Lawyers 2025 Privacy and Data Security Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Tokyo
- Recognized in IAM Patent 1000 (2024)– Japan (Litigation)
- Recognized in Best Lawyers 2025 in Technology Law area
- One of 2024’s top 3 best-performing AI, Tech, and Data lawyers (as selected by companies) in Nikkei’s corporate legal affairs and lawyer survey of the Japanese market
- One of 2022’s Best Performing Lawyers in the Intellectual Property area in Nikkei’s corporate legal affairs and lawyer survey of the Japanese market
Profile
Background
Keio University (LL.B., 2004)
Keio University Law School (J.D., 2006)
New York University School of Law (LL.M. in Competition, Innovation, and Information Law, Concentration in Intellectual Property Law, 2013)
Clayton Utz, Sydney, Australia (2013-2014)
Lecturer (Intellectual Property Law I) at Keio University (Department of Law)(2018)
Major Activities
- Adjunct project professor at Keio University Graduate School of Law(2023-) and Lecturer at Keio Law School (subject: Intellectual Property from a Global Perspective for LL.M. in Global Legal Practice) (2024-)
- Member of the Cyber-Physical Sustainability Center of Keio University Global Research Institute (2023-)
- Researchers for Japan Science and Technology Agency’s Moonshot R&D Program Moonshot Goal1: Realization of a society in which human beings can be free from limitations of body, brain, space, and time by 2050 /Realization of a society where avatars can be used safely and reliably (2023-)
- Lecturer for Training to Ensure Skills as Counsel in Proceedings Alleging Specific Infringement, Japan Patent Attorneys Association (teaching Design Act) (2024-)
- Advisor to Japan DPO Association
- Member of AI and Law Society (Chairperson of Generative AI Section / Member of Privacy Section and IP Section)
- Member of Japan Association of Industrial Property Law
- Member of Copyright Law Association of Japan
- Member of Information Network Law Association
- Member of Law and Computers Association of Japan
- Member of Association of Law and Information Systems
- Member of International Association of Privacy Professionals
Qualifications & Affiliations
admitted in Japan, 2007; New York, 2014
membership: Daini-Tokyo Bar Association
membership: Daini-Tokyo Bar Association