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Employment - Japan
What the Team is Known For
Atsumi & Sakai offers expertise in contentious terminations, claims for reinstatement and power harassment matters. The firm is also skilled in working on employment aspects pertaining to mergers and on compliance matters. The team is well versed in acting for corporations on issues concerning employees' mental health. It acts on behalf of foreign corporations and their Japanese subsidiaries, as well as domestic entities.
Strengths
From the premise that the client is not familiar with the law, they explain it carefully and politely and can present a clear rationale and policy proposal that is easy for anyone to understand.
Atsumi & Sakai provides very clear answers, great support and effective and quick responses.
They are very professional and responsive, and their responses are always clear and well structured.
Notable practitioners
Emi Uchida co-heads the firm's labour and employment team. She is an experienced lawyer who frequently advises multinational companies on sensitive matters including harassment, terminations and compliance.
She is a heartful counsel who not only offers legal knowledge and advice in a speedy and easy-to-understand manner but also empathy with the feelings of the client and sometimes encourages us.
Her advice is practical and clear on what to do next.
There is a sense of reassurance in the way she consistently approaches our concerns with a supportive attitude.
Tatsuo Yamashima is a co-head of the firm’s labour and employment team. He regularly deals with the Labour Standards Inspection Office on compliance matters and in responding to its inquiries. He also often appears before the Tokyo Labour Relations Commission, the Tokyo Labour Bureau and the Tokyo District Court on matters concerning unfair labour practices, employment status and harassment. He ably assists clients with employment-related company policies.
We had an excellent experience with Tatsuo and enjoyed very much working with him.
Tatsuo Yamashima is an attorney with deep expertise in Japanese employment law, always reliable, consistently dependable and known for fast turnaround times.
He is very good, very prompt and gives crisp and good advice.