Japan's punk rock lawyer Akihiro Shima was belting out songs at a packed bar in Tokyo, sporting a mohawk and bright-red ...

Nishimura & Asahi no longer wants to be seen simply as a Japanese law firm. The largest of the Japan-founded firms known as the Big Four, Nishimura has set its sights on the international legal market ...

Japan's Immigration Services Agency (ISA) has notified the Japan Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA) that it plans to ...

Nishimura became the second Big Four Japanese law firm to adopt a foreign law joint enterprise structure, enabling it to hire and promote foreign-qualified lawyers as equity partners and attract the ...

Japan, similarly to many other countries, has had a long tradition of keeping non-lawyers out of legal practice for the protection of public interest and lawyers’ livelihood. This principal is laid ...

Axinn partners Mike Keeley and Jackie Lem and counsel Carol Liu recently traveled to Japan to visit clients and partner law firms. In this post, they highlight the latest developments in Japan’s ...

Japan’s Supreme Court struck down a law requiring transgender people to remove their reproductive organs in order to officially change their gender. On Wednesday, the top court’s 15-judge Grand Bench ...

Lawyer Wu Mingxiu, who joined a Chinese legal team in representing Xia Shuqin, a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre who had ...