We are very pleased to announce that this January 2010, 28 new first year Japanese associates joined our firm. As a result, our firm now has over 290 Japanese attorneys. These new associates are:

Hirotaka Ohtake
Kentaro Miya
Manami Toyota
Mariko Nagata
Akihito Ishii
Taku Matsumoto
Mai Suenaga
Akira Tago
Takeshi Fukatsu
Toshimichi Otaka
Takeshi Chikaraishi
Yoshitaka Kato
Naota Suzuki
Chihiro Maeda
Ritsuho Takada
Yusuke Toda
Hikaru Naganuma
Yuu Ishikawa
Akira Kubota
Yoshitaka Sakamoto
Yu Yamaki
Anri Suzuki
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Tomoaki Kuragano
Makiko Murata
Tomonori Hoshi
Kanako Kudou
Kenta Umaba

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.