Ebisu Plax Bldg. 6F 1-25-1 Ebisu-Minami,
Shibuya-ku Tokyo JAPAN 150-0022

Office hour

Weekday 9:30~17:00

Summary

Waseda University L.L.B 

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

Study in Abroad

Visiting scholar of U.C. Berkeley (2001)

Career highlights

1997~

Member of Tokyo Bar Association Committee on the Protection of Foreigners'Human Rights 
Legal Counseler at Bar Association (Civil, Consumer, and Family Matters) 

2000

Member of Judicial Survey Mission of JFBA to Cambodia and Lao People's Democratic Republic

2001 ~2002

Visiting scholar of U.C. Berkeley

2002~

Project Member of JFBA・JICA
Member of JFBA and Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia Training Project

2004 April~

Adviser at ECOM 
(Electronic Commerce Promotion Council of Japan)

2004 Apri~

Registered Bankruptcy Trustee at Tokyo District Court

2006 October~

Participate the assembly for Member of Convention against Transnational Organized Crime held 
at United Nation's Vienna Inter National Center as represantative of JFBA

2008 April~

Legal Counselor at JFBA Traffic Accident Consultation Center

2009 March

Joined the ILAC・IBA Project Training Iraq Lawyers in International Human Rights and Humanitalian Law at Prague, Czech Republic as the Memeber of JFBA  

2010 July~

Guest Lecturer at Tokai University Law School 

2014 April~

Registered lawyer's list of JFBA Lawyer Referral Service for Hague Convention Cases

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

Inquiry and Booking consultation

Office hour
Weekday 9:30~17:00

Please contact us by the following form, E-mail,
or telephone call.

Contact by Telephone call

81-3-6455-1273

The Masayuki Honda International Law Office, LPC is located in Ebisu, Shibuya.
We are specialized in International cases for individual clients and Small-Medium sized Companies.
Our English speaking lawyers provide the legal services with reasonable fees.
We are available for English reception, so please feel free to contact us.

Main Districts for Service
For Greater Tokyo, Shibuya, Ebisu, area.

Also covers Saitama, Kanagawa, Chiba, and Kanto Suburbs areas.
We are available for Overseas Clients consultation through Telephone call and
Skype.

Contact us

Available for English

81-3-6455-1273
03-6455-1273

Office hour:Weekday 9:30~17:00

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Masayuki Honda, Attorney at Law

Skype:honda_law

Masayuki Honda International Law Office,LPC

Address

Ebisu Plax Bldg. 6F
1-25-1 Ebisu-Minami, Shibuya-ku
Tokyo JAPAN 150-0022

Office hour

Weekday 9:30~17:00