21 lawyers who qualified in October 2004 (namely, Yoshiaki Aihara, Eriko Ishii, Hideaki Umezu, Shogo Osaka, Makoto Osugi, Sachiko Omuro, Aya Ogawa, Ryutaro Kawamura, Yoshiaki Kumagae, Tetsuo Kurita, Takashi Goto, Kenji Saito, Makoto Sakai, Kosuke Sato, Kumi Sano, Miwa Shoda, Masumi Nishi, Hirokazu Hayashi, Makoto Furuya, Shinichiro Yokota, and Takuyo Yoshiara) joined Mori Hamada & Matsumoto.