Kayo Namai (Attorney-at-law) joined our firm.

Tatsuhiko Kinoshita served as a lecturer at a workshop titled ”Harassment consultation desk practices which labor and social security attorneys need to know ~Key response points for companies based on specific cases~” at the Hamamatsu branch of the Shizuoka Association for Labor and Social Security Consultants on October 19, 2022.

Tatsuhiko Kinoshita wrote an article titled “Practical and legal considerations on prohibitions of “internal solicitations” (unfair solicitations of donations, requests for funding through borrowing, etc.) which appeared in the “Business Guide, February 2023” magazine published by Nihon Horei.

Tatsuhiko Kinoshita wrote an article titled “Legal points to consider for a company introducing a scholarship funds repayment support system (when a company repays scholarship funds on behalf of an employee to Japan Student Services Organization.) ~Handling of tax and social insurance, points to consider when preparing regulations, etc.~” which appeared in the “Business Guide, January 2023” magazine published by Nihon Horei.

Ayano Oki (Attorney-at-law) joined our firm.

On December 3rd and 4th 2022,Yasuyuki Suzuki attended the conference titled “The 2nd Global Youth Forum for a Culture of Lawfulness” co-organized by the Ministry of Justice and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and took a role as a moderator in the discussion over the cyber-bullying.
Please refer to the following URL for the Global Youth Forum for a Culture of Lawfulness.
https://www.moj.go.jp/Implementing_the_Kyoto_Declaration/col_yf/index.html

On November 21th 2022, Yasuyuki Suzuki took a role as a speaker in the session titled “The landscape of AI ethics and law in Japan” one of the sessions of the 2022 GPAI Tokyo Summit. He explained about actual cases in Japan where usage of AI was at issue from the viewpoint of legal ethics.
Please refer to the following website for GPAI.
https://gpai.ai/

Tatsuhiko Kinoshita wrote an article titled “How to respond when an employee’s problematic behavior is discovered on a third party’s social networking site, etc.” which appeared in the “Business Guide, November 2022” magazine published by Nihon Horei.

Tatsuhiko Kinoshita wrote an article titled “Company’s obligation to consider the safety of employees under the Customer Harassment Countermeasures Manual, etc.” which appeared in the “Business Guide, August 2022” magazine published by Nihon Horei.

Koki Tada took a role as a speaker in the online seminar hosted by Lexing Network titled “Data Protection in Japan, Some Key Features“.
Koki Tada:https://www.halaw.jp/koki-tada/