Japan Lawyer Blacklist - Masahiko Sumida

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Akasaka International Law, Patent & Accounting Office

Attorney Masahiko Sumida ran away from my kidnapping case against the mother of my child 4 weeks before Kyoto Family Court hearings.  But he sent me a bill of 1 M Yen just before I reported the case to the French Embassy.

Additional Information

A web search for Mr. Sumida turns up English listings in databases, but no homepage.  Only an odd email address ailaw@nisiq.net which itself has no homepage, but hosts a variety of other homepages on many non-law topics.  Searches in Japanese turn up even less.  So here is some additional information to help identify him.

His listings on http://www.martindalehubbell.com includes the following information:

Practice Areas: Industrial Property Rights Law; Copyright Law; Unfair Competition Law; Immigration Law; General Commercial Law; Corporate Law; Litigation and Arbitration.

Admitted: 1981, Japan; 1984, as Patent Attorney

Education: Waseda University (LL.B., 1967); Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court (1979-1981)

Biography: Japanese diplomat in France and Madagascar, 1967-1972. Co-Author: "Droit International de L'Homme D' Affaires," Dalloz, 1994; Francis Lefebvre International Law Series- "Japanese Business Law," Lefebvre Publishing, France, 1995. Member: Committee on Anti-counterfeiting, International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property; International Exchange Committee, Japan Federation of Bar Associations; International Relations Committee, Tokyo Bar Association; International Exchange Committee of the Japanese Judges, Prosecutors and Lawyers Association (Foundation).

Languages: Japanese, French and English.

Born: Kobe, Japan, 1943.

Law Firm

Akasaka International Law, Patent & Accounting Office No. 302, Nissanken Kaikan Building 3-14, Toranomon 5-Chome Minato-ku Tokyo 105-0001 Japan Telephone: +81-3-5472-4488 Fax: +81-3-5472-4491

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Affiliated Lawyers

• Masahiko Tsunoda (member of firm)

• Tanguy Pinault (resident foreign legal consultant at firm)

• Emily Margaret Jackson (resident foreign legal consultant at firm)

Organizational Affiliations

• Associated with Korman, Mandel & Henaff, Paris, France

• International Language & Culture Center (http://www.ilcc.com/eg/profile.html)

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