Name: FUCHIGAMI Reiko
Position: President, Japan Federation of Bar Associations
While promoting the enhance the manpower and material resources of family courts, she also promotes gender equality and is working towards the realization of a selective separate surname system for married couples. She is also involved in the support of survivors and reconstruction efforts in disaster-stricken areas, the adoption of IT in civil trial procedures, and the reform of Japan’s criminal justice system.
Background
1977 Graduated from Hitotsubashi University Faculty of Law
1983 Admitted as an attorney (35th Legal Training and Research Course)
2005–2006, 2008–2012 Deputy Chairman of the Legal Counselling Centers of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations
2011–2015, 2017–2018 Great East Japan Earthquake Nuclear Power Plant Accident Countermeasure Headquarters Committee Member
2012–2014 Director of the Japan Legal Support Center Promotion Headquarters Secretariat
2014–2015
2016–2019, 2022–2024 Deputy General Manager of the Japan Legal Support Center Promotion Headquarters
2017 President of Tokyo Bar Association
Vice President of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations
2017–2018 Deputy General Manager of the Emergency Countermeasure Headquarters for Maintaining Legal Training and Research Benefits
2017–2019 Deputy General Manager of the Legal Professional Training System Reform Headquarters
2019–2020 Acting General Manager of the Comprehensive Legal Support Headquarters
2020 and 2021 Secretary-General of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations
2024 and 2025 President of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations
Name: HAYASHI Izumi
Position: President, IP Lawyers Network Japan
Born in Tokyo. Graduated from the Faculty of Law, Waseda University. Registered at Tokyo Bar Association in 1987 after working as a prosecutor in the District Public Prosecutor's Office (the 38th Term).Director of Japan Wheelchair Tennis Association, Acting Chair of the Council for Promotion of Regulatory Reform
Principal Roles & Positions at the IPLNET Japan:
April 2005 – Chief Secretary
May 2018 – Senior Director
May 2023 – President
At JFBA, Hayashi has held the following positions: Deputy Secretary of the Central Board on Promotion of Intellectual Property Rights Policies (June 2009 –May 2011), Chief Secretary of the Committee on Intellectual Property Rights (CIP) (June 2011 – May 2012) and Chairperson of CIP (June 2012 – May 2013) and Deputy Chairperson of CIP (June 2013 –).
Ms. Yuriko Sagara is a partner at Nakamura & Partners. In 1999, she obtained Bachelor of Law at the University of Tokyo and was admitted to the Daini Tokyo Bar Association. In 2008, she obtained the Master of Laws (LLM) at Duke University School of Law and was admitted to the New York State Bar in 2010.
Her main areas of practice include consultation for domestic and international contracts on intellectual properties (IP), as well as patent, design, trademark, copyright and trade secret infringement cases. She also handles domestic and international trademark application services to support anti-counterfeiting measures and licensing in business.
She has been a member of the Copyright Committee of the Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA) since 2002, working together with lawyers and patent lawyers from various countries.
She has been a member of the JFBA Intellectual Property Center since 2017 and serves as a chair in 2024.
Name: HATTORI Makoto
Position: Vice Chairperson of Intellectual Property Center of the Japan Federation
Graduate of the Department of Law, Faculty of Law, Keio University. Admitted to the Japanese Bar and joined Abe, Ikubo & Katayama in 1998. In 2001, he was seconded as Deputy Director to the Intellectual Property Policy Office in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry under the Act on Officials with Fixed Term of Office. From 2002 to 2004, after completing an LLM at University of Pennsylvania Law School, he worked as a visiting researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Intellectual Property. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 2003. While working as a professional lawyer, he has been fulfilling various duties including adjunct instructor at the Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University (2007 to 2018), adjunct instructor at the Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University (since 2013), and visiting professor at the Graduate School of Law, Kobe University (since 2016). He was Chairperson of the Intellectual Property Center of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations (2021 to 2022).
His areas of expertise include intellectual property litigation and contracts concerning patents, copyrights, trademarks and the Unfair Competition Prevention Law. He provides legal advice and consultation on international disputes in a variety of fields that utilize his extensive knowledge as a member of the New York Bar and his experiences studying in the U.S. as well as working in Europe.
