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| International Litigation, Commercial Arbitration and other Business Dispute Resolution. |
| Practice |
| Yoshimasa Furuta is a litigation partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune with extensive trial expertise. He specializes in international & domestic litigation, commercial arbitration and other dispute resolution procedures. Mr. Furuta represents Japanese and foreign companies in all kinds of business disputes, both in Japan and overseas, involving sales of goods, technology licensing, intellectual property infringement (patent, copyright, trademark, know-how and unfair competition), labor & employment, corporate management, complex financial products and other business transactions. Among the many court cases that he has litigated, more than 20 have been published in the case reports of the Japanese courts. |
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| In addition to his professional experience at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, Mr. Furuta worked for the Japanese Ministry of Home Affairs as a government official (1988 to 1989) and for the New York law firm of Whitman Breed Abbott & Morgan (now known as Winston & Strawn) as a foreign attorney (1995 to 1996). He teaches civil procedure, international litigation and other courses at Seikei University as a professor of law (2004 to date), and at Rikkyo University as an adjunct lecturer (2000 to date). |
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Litigation Practice |
| Books and Articles Authored in English: |
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"The International Comparative Legal Guide to : International Arbitration 2008" (Global Legal Group, 2008) (co-authored)
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"Japan enters a new era" (ADR in Asia: Solutions for Business) (co-author) |
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Law and Business in Japan, New Edition (Commercial Law Centre, Inc., Publishers, January 2000) (co-author) |
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"Product Liability Act and Transactional Litigation in Japan," Texas International Law Journal, Vol. 34, No. 1, p. 93 (Winter 1999) (with Professor Kobayashi) |
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"International Parallel Litigation: Disposition of Duplicative Civil Proceedings in the United States and Japan," Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1 (November 1995) |
| Books and Articles Authored in Japanese: |
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Analysis on New Bar Examination Questions (Nippon Hyoronnsha, 2008) (co-author)
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"Parallel Liitgation and Lis Pendens - Intellectual Property High Court decision dated April 11, 2007" Hougaku Seminar, Vol. 634, (October 2007) (co-author)
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Analysis on New Bar Examination Questions (Nippon Hyoronnsha, 2007) (co-author)
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"Restructuring the Intervention Procedure," Hanrei Times, Vol. 1236, page 75 (June 2007)
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"Constitutional Protection of Voting Rights of the Japanese Nationals Living Overseas," Human Rights International, Vol. 17, p. 120 (November 2006) |
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"Constitutionality of the Gatekeeper Regulations," Liberty & Justice, Vol. 57, No. 10, p. 94 (October 2006) (co-author) |
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"Judicial System Reforms: What have been achieve, and what shall be achieved Part II: The Day I become a Common Jury," Quarterly Keiso, Kinshu Issue (2006) |
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Analysis on New Bar Examination Questions (Nippon Hyoronnsha, 2006) (co-author) |
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"Taking Evidence-in Arbitration," JCA Journal, Vol. 53, No. 2, p2 (co-author) (May 2006) |
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"Supreme Court Judgment 2005: Voting Rights for Japanese Nationals Living Abroad: Commented by Lawyer in Charge," Hougaku Seminar, Vol. 615, p30 (March 2006) |
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"Rules of Evidence in International Arbitrations," Japan Association of Arbitrators Bulletin, No. 3, p. 2 (December 2005) |
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"Which Law Shall Apply? - Documentary Letter of Credit and Conflict of Laws-," The Seikei Journal of Legal, Political and Social Science, No. 62, p. 145 (December 2005) |
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"Case note: ‘Extraordinary Circumstances’ to deny International Jurisdiction of the Japanese Court," Shiho Hanrei Remarks, No. 31, p. 134 (2005) |
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"Law School News: You cannot sleep during my Civil Procedure class !,” May 2005 Issue, p. 4 |
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"Judicial System Reforms: What have been achieve, and what shall be achieved," Quarterly Keiso, No.2, Vol. 2 (2005) |
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"Equal Employment Opportunity Lawsuits in the U.S. and Protection of Employee Privacy in Japan," Journal of Management Lawyers, Vol. 137 (2003) (co-author) |
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Basic Theory on International Intellectual Property Infringement (Keizai Sangyo Chosakai, Publishers, 2003) (co-author) |
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"Antisuit Injunctions," in International Civil Litigation (Seirin Shoin, Publishers, 2002) |
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Commentary on the Financial Products Sales Act (Shin Nihon Hoki, Publishers, 2001) (co-author) |
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Manual for the New Code of Civil Procedure, New Edition (Hanrei Times, Publishers, 2001) (co-author) |
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"International Jurisdiction and Choice of Law in Labor Disputes," Journal of Management Lawyers, Vol. 129 (2000) |
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"International Jurisdiction for Intellectual Property Infringement Litigations - the U.S. Perspective," in Intellectual Property Institute's Research Project (March 2000) |
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"How to deal with Sexual Harassment," Nikkei Business (February 1999) |
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International Parallel Litigation (Shinzansha, Publishers, 1997) |
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Commentary on the New Code of Civil Procedure (Shin Nihon Hoki, Publishers, 1997) (co-author) |
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"International Parallel Litigation - Comparative Studies and Legislative Proposal," Journal of Trade & Tariff (January through June 1996) |
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| Academic Presentation |
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"Symposium on New Bar Exammination 2008 - Perspective from Legal Practice," a Panelist (August 2008)
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"Consideration on New Bar Exam in 2008 - Civil Law Exam," chaired round-table discussion, reproduced in Hogaku Seminar, Vol. 644 (August 2008)
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"Transparency of Japanese Laws - the 1st Symposium," Participated as a lecturer and a panelist, reported in Jurist, Vol.1312, p30 (2006) |
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"The IBA Rules of Evidence Five Years Later - Japan: Retrospective and Prospective," presented at International Bar Association, The 2005 Annual Conference in Prague, Czech Republic (2005) |
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"Domestic Protection of Foreign Copyrights," presented at the 2000 Annual Conference of the Japan Copyright Law Association, reproduced in Copyright Law Journal, Vol. 27 (2003) |
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| Education |
| The University of Tokyo (LL.B., 1988); The Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan, 1988-1990; graduate study, Harvard Law School (LL.M., 1995; Addison Brown Prize, 1995). Associated with Whitman Breed Abbot & Morgan (currently Winston & Strawn), New York, 1995-1996. |
| Professional Admissions |
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Japan (1991) |
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New York (1996) |
| Professional and Academic Associations |
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Dai-ni Tokyo Bar Association |
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International Bar Association |
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Member, Management Lawyers Council |
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Worked for the Japanese Ministry of Home Affairs (1988-1989) |
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Adjunct Lecturer, Rikkyo University |
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Visiting Professor, Seikei University (2003-2004) |
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Professor, Seikei Law School |
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Organizer, Study Group of Japan Association of Arbitrators (2004-) |
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Member, Labor Legislation Committee of Japan Federation of Bar Associations (2005-) |
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Member, Gatekeepers Taskforce, Japan Federation of Bar Associations (2006-) |
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Member, International Private Law Committee, Japan Federation of Bar Associations (2006-) |
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Adjunct Lecturer, University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Business Sciences (2008-)
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Secretary, Legislative Council of the Ministry of Justice (2008-)
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Japanese (first language) |
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English |
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