By Shingo Hattori — Founder & Managing Partner, Hattori LawTel: +81 3 6447 5586 If you have business project in Japan, its contract for the project should be drafted in both of Japanese and English. In that case, it’s necessary to clarify the content of it in your language and to check whether it’s precisely translated. If you just want to overview the content of the contract, it’s possible to use software for translation while you might know that Japanese language is not easy to be translated into English. When you want to review legal risk of the contract draft or negotiate the wording of it, it betters to have a […]
By Shingo Hattori — Founder & Managing Partner, Hattori LawTel: +81 3 6447 5586 If you are a law firm lawyer located outside of Japan and you have a deal related to Japanese Laws, I guess you are facing difficulties to do research Japanese Laws. There are not many Japanese legal materials written in English. As I studied in the United States, I could have found some Japanese Companies Act materials in English written in 80s. While, it was one of the latest ones written about the Japanese Companies Act at that time. One of the reasons is that it’s difficult to translate those in English. Japanese Laws are not easy […]
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