Our lawyers are familiar with the latest labor and employment related laws, as well as the operational practices of labor and employment administrators and regulators. We thus assist our clients in dealing with regulatory inspection, guidance, recommendations, and prosecution. Based on our extensive experience in dealing with labor and employment administrators, we are also able to give practical advice on how to deal with administrators, how to establish a compliance system, and how to plan and implement corrective measures that may be required by the administrators.
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Junichi Ueda is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, primarily involved in general corporate matters, including matters associated with labor and employment law, social insurance, labor insurance and pension law, corporate law, and personal information protection law. Further, he also has abundant experience in litigation and other dispute resolution procedures.

KensukeOtsuki
Tokyo
Partner
Tokyo
Partner
Kensuke Otsuki has provided advice to domestic and foreign clients focused on employment and labor-related law, such as human resources and labor management, labor litigation, labor tribunal and other employment/labor disputes.
He has also engaged in practices related to mergers and acquisitions, general corporate (e.g., advising and attending shareholders’ meetings), and litigation and dispute resolutions.

Junichi Kondo is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune and is engaged principally in the fields of general corporate matters with an emphasis on M&A, joint venture and other corporate transactions including M&A-related financing. His scope of experience also includes healthcare matters including pharmaceutical regulations and software licensing.

Yukiko Imazu focuses her practice in the area of labor and employment and acts on behalf of both Japanese and non-Japanese companies in advising on labor and employment issues. She is also an experienced labor and employment litigator, having successfully defended many cases. She also gives seminars and training sessions regarding labor and employment matters tailored to clients' needs, both in Japanese and English. Especially, she gives a lot of harassment prevention seminars to non-Japanese companies, Japanese companies, Japanese governmental bodies and universities.

Takefumi Sato is a partner specializing primarily in the areas of commercial litigation, arbitration, mediation and other dispute resolution proceedings. His experience covers a broad range of disputes, such as, securities litigations, M&A and Joint Venture related disputes, franchise business lawsuits, disputes over control of a company, and defective products lawsuits. He also has a broad experience in the areas of labor and employment, including, advising revision of company rules, strategic advice in a pre-dispute phase, negotiation with protesting employees, handling lawsuits, preliminary injunction and labor tribunal, and advising on collective bargaining with labor unions.

Yuka Kamio primarily handles labor and employment matters. She provides both Japanese and non-Japanese companies and organizations with a wide range of legal services including representation in litigations and other dispute resolution procedures, assistance with harassment investigations, and advice on compliance and other employment-related issues or matters. She has extensive experience in giving advice to non-Japanese clients who are unfamiliar with Japanese labor laws and practices. Ms. Kamio also has considerable experience in general corporate matters. For non-Japanese clients who wish to establish businesses or undergo organization restructuring or liquidations in Japan, she provides them with a comprehensive range of legal services including advice from corporation law and labor law perspectives.

Sho Ando handles a wide range of employment and labor law matters, providing advice on general personnel and labor issues to both Japanese and international clients from a practical perspective.
He has extensive experience in handling employment and labor disputes and dealing with labor unions. He is also highly experienced in conducting investigations related to employment and labor compliance, such as those concerning harassment and the misappropriation of confidential information by employees. Additionally, he has been involved in numerous M&A transactions involving employment and labor issues, including carve-out deals and matters related to the Act on the Succession to Labor Contracts upon Company Split.
Furthermore, he focuses on the intersection of employment and labor law and other legal fields—such as M&A, Personal Information/Data Privacy, AI (HR Technology), and Economic Security—as well as on corporate pension law.

Kazutoshi Kakuyama is an of counsel at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, and has a general practice on behalf of domestic and overseas clients, specializing in labor and employment law and general corporate matters.

Mariko Kimoto is primarily handling labor and employment matters as well as general corporate matters. She provides domestic and overseas clients with a wide range of legal services including representation in litigations and other dispute resolution procedures, harassment investigations, advices on compliance and other employment-related issues or matters. Besides, she regularly handles corporate transactions in Vietnam and other ASEAN countries with her experience working at a Vietnamese law firm and other public and academic organizations in Vietnam.
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