Practice Areas

• Commercial Litigation
• Corporate Rehabilitation / Bankruptcy / Debt Collection
• Crisis Management
• Internal Investigations

Background

• 1986/3

  LL.B.,Kyoto University

• 1988/4

  Legal Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court
  Assistant Judge, Osaka District Court / Fukushima District Court / Tokyo District Court

• 1994/4-1996/3

  Public Relations Division and Secretary Division, General Secretariat of the Supreme Court

• 1996/11-1999/3

  Deposit Insurance Corporation

• 2000/4

  Director, Budget Division / General Affairs Division, Financial Bureau, General Secretariat of the Supreme Court
  (2000/9 Judge)

• 2005/4

  Tokyo High Court (Civil Division) / Tokyo District Court (Commercial Division / Civil Division, 2012/4 Presiding Judge)

• 2013/5

  Secretary-General, Tokyo High Court

• 2016/9

  Presiding Judge (Medical Division / Civil Provisional Remedies Division) / Acting Chief Judge of Civil Division, Tokyo District Court

• 2019/9

  Chief Judge, Mito District Court

• 2021/8

  Presiding Judge, Tokyo High Court

• 2023/4

  Chief Judge, Tokyo District Court

• 2025/1-2026/3

  President, Nagoya High Court

Memberships