We are very pleased to announce that this October 2005, 22 new first year Japanese associates joined our firm. As a result, our firm now has over 190 Japanese attorneys. These new associates are:

Kensaku Yamamoto
Tatsuo Yamashima
Takao Shojima
Yuko Hino
Kei Sasaki
Hirofumi Nakanishi
Wataru Higuchi
Yasufumi Miki
Nobuyuki Okuno
Natsuko Nomura
Takashige Yamada
Tomoaki Tanizawa
Ryoya Kayama
Motoyasu Hirose
Yuki Kohmaru
Koichi Miyamoto
Atsushi Izumi
Toshinori Yagi
Keita Tokura
Risa Ishikawa
Naoko Kato
Kazunari Onishi

We welcome these new associate attorneys to our firm. With these new members, we have increased our capacity to handle large and complex legal projects while maintaining the highest standards of quality.