Representative Masayuki Honda
Attorney at Law

Summary

Waseda University L.L.B 

Member of Tokyo Bar Association (Admitted Bar, Japan, 1997)

Current

Listed in Lawyer's List at US, UK, Australia, Canada, NZ, and Norway Embassys in Japan
Official Represantative of JPBP
Listed to JFBA　Lawyer Referral Service for Hague Convention Cases
Listed in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lawyer Service for making application form for Ministry's Assistance in Child’s Return to Foreign State

Languages

Japanese・English

Background

Due to his father’s job transfer, Honda has spent six years in Bangkok, Thailand until entering high school in Japan.

After becoming a lawyer, he was involved in a JFBA and JICA project for three years, launching and operating a Cambodian lawyer training school. While engaging in international legal assistance, he also works on human rights issues of foreigners in Japan, such as getting not guilty verdicts in criminal cases involving foreigners.

Recently, he has a strong interest in the human rights issues of children, who are involved in conflicts of international divorces and separations of couples. He has handled a number of Hague Convention cases, joint custody cases, and other international family law cases, and has won favorable judgments.

He is also involved in the relief of victims of cross-border investment damage and international accidents.

Major Cases Involved

Tokyo Family Court Judgment on March 29, 2021 (Case related to private international law, published in Family Law and Judgment No. 38 & Hanrei Jiho No. 2527)

Tokyo High Court Decision on September 3, 2020 (Hague Convention Case, published in Family Law and Judgment No. 36)

Tokyo District Court Judgment on June 17, 2019 (Hague Convention-related Case, published in Hanrei Hisho)

Tokyo District Court Judgment on May 25, 2017 (Foreign Judgment Recognition and Enforcement Case, published in Hanrei Hisho)

Tokyo High Court Decision on May 19, 2017 (Joint custody, case related to private international law, published in Family Law and Judgment No. 12, Jurist No. 1523, Koseki Jiho No. 780, Civil and Commercial Law Journal Vol. 154 No. 6)

Chiba District Court Judgment on July 19, 2005 (Not-Guilty judgment on alleged drug (stimulant) smuggling, published in Hanrei Times No. 1206, Hogaku Seminar Vol. 51 No. 12