• Motoki Taniguchi

    Motoki Taniguchi Attorney at Law in Japan


    Experience

    2005 Registered as an Attorney at Law in Japan
    2017 Graduated from the University of Michigan Graduate School of Social Work
    (Fulbright Scholarship, 2015)
    2017 – 2018 Michigan State Public Defender’s Office
    2019 Directing Attorney of Tokyo Public Law Office

    As the Directing Attorney of Tokyo Public Law Office, Mr. Taniguchi is an expert in criminal defense and immigration law, He has been invited to teach at many lawyer trainings and university lectures. He is also a specialist in criminal trials, particularly in courtroom defense. He speaks fluent English and is knowledgeable in corporate, family and other civil laws.

  • Akira Takiue

    Akira Takiue Attorney at Law in Japan


    Experience

    2005 Registered as an Attorney at Law in Japan
    2006 – 2010 Director of Kamaishi Himawari Fund Law Office
    2011 – 2014&2016 – 2021 Disaster relief activities in Iwate Prefecture
    2014 – 2016/2021 Tokyo Public Law Office

    Mr. Takiue is certified with HSK (Chinese Language Proficiency Test) Level 6.
    In the future, he would like to use his Chinese language skill to carry out community-based foreigners legal support activities.
    He is well experienced in handling a wide range of cases, including general civil cases such as divorce and inheritance, as well as visa-related matters, corporate legal matters, and criminal cases.

  • Kaori Okubo

    Yuichi Yamamoto Attorney at Law in Japan


    Experience

    2010 Registered as an Attorney at Law in Japan
    2019 Tokyo Public Law Office
    2022-2023 University of Essex Law School, UK (International Human Rights Law Course)

    He is a qualified social worker and provides both legal support and livelihood support. Currently, He is in charge of the Office for Human Rights of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, and is engaged in remedy for various human rights violation cases by making use of the international human rights law he learned during his study in the UK.

  • Hirotoshi Nohara

    Hirotoshi Nohara Attorney at Law in Japan


    Experience

    2012 Registered as an Attorney at Law in Japan
    2014 Worked at a social-welfare organization
    2014 – 2020 Japan Legal Support Center (Houterasu)
    2020 Tokyo Public Law Office, Foreigners National and International Service
    Section

    Mr. Nohara worked as a staff lawyer at the Japan Legal Support Center (Houterasu), an organization specializing in providing legal support for people with legal access difficulties. Moreover, he took charge of criminal cases involving foreigners as well as immigration and asylum cases when he worked in Chiba prefecture, which is home to Japan’s largest international airport.
    Mr. Nohara has extensive experience in acquiring residence status for foreigners of government agencies and other foreigner support entities, therefore he has worked as an advisor and consultant for those public entities involving people with foreign roots.

  • Tsubasa Hasegawa

    Tsubasa Hasegawa Attorney at Law in Japan


    Experience

    2016 Registered as an Attorney at Law in Japan
    2017 – 2021 Japan Legal Support Center (Houterasu), Tama Office
    2021 Tokyo Public Law Office, Foreigners National and International Service
    Section

    Mr. Hasegawa worked as a staff attorney at the Tama Law Office of the Japan Legal Support Center (Houterasu). He has handled a large number of criminal defense cases, and many of the cases involve foreign nationals. For instance, he has obtained a suspended sentence for a foreign national with a disability as well as a great number of non-prosecutions.

  • Kaori Okubo

    Kaori Okubo Attorney at Law in Japan


    Experience

    2017 Registered as an Attorney at Law in Japan
    2018-2022 Waseda Legal Commons Law Office
    2020-2022 Worked at Legal Department of Waseda University
    2022.12- Tokyo Public Law Office, Foreigners National and International Service Section

    Ms. Okubo has spent her early childhood and high school/college overseas, and came into contact with people from various cultures and diverse backgrounds. She is now a mother of two girls. Any person could get into legal trouble, and facing legal issues in a foreign country could be challenging mainly due to the language and the cultural differences. She would like to help such people who are in trouble and need legal advice of Japanese laws and regulations. Please do not to hesitate to contact us. Let’s start by thinking about what we can do together to solve your issues.

  • Naomi Takahashi

    Naomi Takahashi Attorney at Law in Japan


    Experience

    2023 Registered as an Attorney at Law in Japan
    2023.12- Tokyo Public Law Office, Foreigners National and International Service Section Ms. Takahashi has a DELE (Diplomas de Español como Lengua Extranjera)
    B2 diploma and a TOPIK(Test of Proficiency in Korean)level 6 certificate.

    While she was at university, she studied in Spain and South Korea. After graduation, she worked in the trading business section of an optical goods manufacturer. She decided to become a lawyer because she wanted to support foreign residents in Japan by providing legal services. She plans to work actively on cases involving foreign residents and those with roots in foreign countries.