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Takashi Nakazaki

Takashi Nakazaki

Special Counsel

My practice focuses on assisting domestic and international clients with personal data and privacy, AI, metaverse and other advanced areas, internet and IT-related matters, copyright, trademarks and other intellectual property rights, and cross-border transactions. For domestic clients, I have also assisted many clients with overseas compliance in the EU and elsewhere. I also deal with a number of more specialised areas, such as cyber security, where ransomware has recently become an issue, economic security, where security clearances are a hot topic, and technical areas such as Radio Act and satellite-related matters.

Outside of work, I was a member of a working group that drafted the recently published AI Guidelines for Business, and I serve on a number of expert committees for the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the Cabinet Office and other government departments. Also I have been commissioned to carry out various surveys for the Personal Information Protection Commission.

In Internet-related matters, I have been involved in various service launches and overseas expansion support for SNS, cloud, metaverse and online games, domain disputes and security, as well as compliance with the Personal Information Protection Act, the Funds Settlement Act, the Provider Liability Limitation Act, the Telecommunications Business Act and various other business laws and regulations, and in IT and systems, I have been involved in system development, security and open source software development. The firm assists clients in Japan and abroad with a focus on system development, security and software disputes, including open source.

Nakazaki Takashi

Practice Areas

Key Practice Areas

Related Practice Areas

Practice Groups

  • Intellectual Property Law Group
  • Corporate Crisis Management Practice Group
  • Data Privacy & Digital Group
  • Life Sciences and Health Care Practice Group

Background

Mar 1998 The University of Tokyo(LL.B.)
Oct 2001 The Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan
May 2008 Graduate study, Columbia University School of Law (LL.M.)
Sep 2008 - Jun 2009 Associated with Arnold & Porter LLP
Nov 2009 Returning to AMT
Apr 2010 Editorial Board of AIPPI Japan
Dec 2012 Study Group on Issues Related to ICT Services from the User's Perspective, WG on the Safe and Secure Usage Environment in the Smartphone Era (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)
Jan 2013 Special counsel
Apr 2014 Legal advisor, Data Exchange Consortium
Mar 2015 Co-Chair of IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals) KnowledgeNet Tokyo
Sep 2015 Terms of Service & Rules WG for IoT-based Omotenashi Demonstration Projects of IoT Acceleration Consortium (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)
Jan 2016 The Data Utilization and Transaction Promotion WG of IoT Acceleration Consortium (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Ministry of Internal affairs and Communication)
Jan 2018 Contract Guidelines on AI & Data Utilization RightsWG (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)
Jan 2020 AI Social Implementation Architecture WG
Mar 2020 International Bar Association Technology Committee Officer
Apr 2020 Examination Committee for the Intellectual Property Management Skills Test
Mar 2022 International Bar Association Technology Committee Officer
Nov 2022 Government-Private Sector Collaborative Meeting on New Legal Issues Concerning Content in the Metaverse (Cabinet Office)
Apr 2023 Examination Committee for the Intellectual Property Management Skills Test
Sep 2023 Expert Review Committee for "Research and Study on Rules of AI Governance and Operation of Study Group"(Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)
Feb 2024 Appointed as a member of G3-3, Avatar Law Policy Study Group, ‘Moonshot-type Research and Development Project’, Cabinet Office
Mar 2024 International Bar Association Technology Committee Officer
Aug 2024 Participating in ELSI under the Cabinet Office's Strategic Innovation Programme (SIP) 'Building an Integrated Healthcare System'

Publications

EU Law Newsletter (August 2024) AMTニュースレター
Aug 2024
Jul 2024
Trends in AI Governance in Japan ICLG: Data Protection 2024
Jul 2024
ICLG: Digital Business 2024 - Japan ICLG: Digital Business 2024
May 2024
Jul 2023
ICLG: Digital Business 2023 - Japan ICLG: Digital Business 2023
Jun 2023
Report on Data Protection Regulations in Foreign Countries Personal Information Protection Commission JAPAN Website
Apr 2022
ICLG: Digital Business 2022 - Japan ICLG: Digital Business 2022
Aug 2021
ICLG: Data Protection 2019 - Japan ICLG: Data Protection 2019
Jul 2019
ICLG: Outsourcing 2019 - Japan ICLG: Outsourcing 2019
Jul 2019
Lexology GTDT - Copyright 2019 -Japan Lexology GTDT - Copyright 2019
Jul 2019
Interview - WWL Thought Leaders Data 2019 WWL Thought Leaders Data 2019
Jun 2019
Lexology GTDT - Gaming 2019 - Japan Lexology GTDT - Gaming 2019
Jun 2019
The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Outsourcing 2017 (Japan Chapter) The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Outsourcing 2017
Aug 2017
How to collect and analyze big data for actual cases Technical Information Institute Co, Ltd.
Nov 2014
Nov 2014
May 2014
Getting the Deal Through – Outsourcing 2014 (Japan Chapter) Getting the Deal Through - Outsourcing 2014
Dec 2013
Does your mobile game app infringe copyright? Recent decisions in the US and Japan Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law (Newsletter of the IBA Legal Practice Division)
Sep 2013
Apr 2013
Real World Excessive Regulations Might Kill Economic Transactions in Virtual Worlds Journal of Internet Law  (Vol. 14, No. 12, June 2011)
Jun 2011
Net Neutrality in Japan IBA Communications Law, Volume 18, Issue 1
May 2011
Regulations on Economic Transactions in Virtual Worlds The SciTech Lawyer, Vol. 7, No. 2, Fall 2010 (Virtual Law, Part 2: Into the Rabbit Hole)
Oct 2010
Fair use under discussion Managing Intellectual Property (July/August 2010)
Aug 2010
Court acquits P2P software developer Managing Intellectual Property (Issue 195, December 2009/January 2010)
Jan 2010
The Regulation of New Forms of Electronic Fund Transfers in Japan Focusing on Electronic Money Cyberlaw for Global E-business: Finance, Payment and Dispute Resolution (Information Science Reference)
Mar 2008

Lectures

How to deal with and use AI appropriately Tokyo, Arts Council Tokyo / bench Co.
Sep 4, 2024
IP related to Metaverse & AI and Avatar issues The International Bar Association
Sep 7, 2023
Jan 24, 2023
How to Comply With Japan’s New Data Protection Regulations International Association of Privacy Professionals
Jul 25, 2017
Oct 8, 2015
How to handle social media effectively and properly Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
Sep 20, 2013
May 31, 2013
Nov 8, 2012
Next-Generation Contents and Intellectual Property 3D contents sectional committee of the Intellectual Property Association of Japan
Oct 20, 2012
How to handle and manage social media risks The Japan Pharmaceutical Industry Legal Affairs Association
Jul 26, 2012
Competition, Regulation, and Consumer Protection in Japan Nagoya University Graduate School of Law
Oct 8, 2011
Jul 26, 2011

Achievements

Professional Admissions

  • Japan (2001)

Professional and Academic Associations

  • Daini Tokyo Bar Association
  • Member, Data Utilization and Transaction Promotion WG of IoT Acceleration Consortium (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Ministry of Internal affairs and Communication)
  • Member, Terms of Service & Rules WG for IoT-based Omotenashi Demonstration Projects of IoT Acceleration Consortium (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)
  • Member, Contract Guidelines on Data Utilization RightsWG (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)
  • Member, The Copyright Law Association of Japan
  • Member, Information Network Law Association Japan
  • Association of Law and Information Systems
  • Editor, International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property of Japan
  • Member, The Virtual Worlds and Multi-User Online Games Committee of the ABA's Section of Science & Technology Law
  • Member Technology Committee of IBA
  • Co-founder of IAPP KnowledgeNet Tokyo

Languages

  • Japanese (first language)
  • English