- 14 Mar 2002
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Japanese lawyers scramble to protect their walled garden from outsiders
[...] Instead, what Japan has is a pitiful number of lawyers, most of whom work solely as litigators, and a legal market so strictly regulated that foreign lawyers have to jump through hoops to get a piece of the action.
"The problem is that there aren't enough Japanese lawyers to do Japanese law work,'' says Jeffrey Shimamoto, president of the Roppongi Bar Association, a Tokyo-based legal networking organization.
"For that reason, foreign lawyers usually come to this country to pick up as much slack as they can because it's just too much work for those lawyers to do. With the restrictions on foreign lawyers practicing in Japan, it just makes it more difficult for any legal work to get done in general.''
=> The Asahi Shimbun
[...] Instead, what Japan has is a pitiful number of lawyers, most of whom work solely as litigators, and a legal market so strictly regulated that foreign lawyers have to jump through hoops to get a piece of the action.
"The problem is that there aren't enough Japanese lawyers to do Japanese law work,'' says Jeffrey Shimamoto, president of the Roppongi Bar Association, a Tokyo-based legal networking organization.
"For that reason, foreign lawyers usually come to this country to pick up as much slack as they can because it's just too much work for those lawyers to do. With the restrictions on foreign lawyers practicing in Japan, it just makes it more difficult for any legal work to get done in general.''
=> The Asahi Shimbun
