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Dec. 7, 2023 Awards

Top rankings received in The Nikkei's "Corporate Legal Tax Affairs and Lawyer Survey 2023"

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Aug. 18, 2022 Firm News

Makoto Hayashi joins Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

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• The University of Tokyo (LL.B., 1981)
• Public Prosecutor at Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office (1983-1984)
• Public Prosecutor at Kofu District Public Prosecutors Office (1984-1987)
• Public Prosecutor at Kawagoe Branch of Urawa District Public Prosecutors Office (1987-1988)
• Public Prosecutor at Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office (1988-1990)
• Assigned to Criminal Affairs Bureau of Ministry of Justice (1990-1991)
• First Secretary to Japanese Embassy in France (1991-1994)
• Assigned to Criminal Affairs Bureau of Ministry of Justice (1994-1995)
• Public Prosecutor at Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office (1995-1996)
• Senior Public Prosecutor at Kochi District Public Prosecutors Office (1996-1998)
• Public Prosecutor at Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office (1998)
• Assigned to Secretarial Division of Minister’s Secretariat, Ministry of Justice (1998-2000)
• Counsellor of Criminal Affairs Bureau of Ministry of Justice (2000-2001)
• Counsellor of Minister’s Secretariat of Ministry of Justice (in charge of criminal affairs) (2001)
• Assigned to Minister’s Secretariat of Ministry of Justice (2001)
• Director of International Affairs Division of Criminal Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Justice (2001-2003)
• Director of General Affairs Division of Correction Bureau, Ministry of Justice (2003-2006)
• Director of General Affairs Division of Criminal Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Justice (2006-2008)
• Director of Personnel Division of Minister’s Secretariat, Ministry of Justice (2008-2011)
• Public Prosecutor at Supreme Public Prosecutors Office (2011-2012)
• Director of General Affairs Division of Supreme Public Prosecutors Office (2012-2013)
• Chief Prosecutor at Sendai District Public Prosecutors Office (2013-2014)
• Director-General of Criminal Affairs Bureau of Ministry of Justice (2014-2018)
• Superintending Prosecutor at Nagoya High Public Prosecutors Office (2018-2020)
• Superintending Prosecutors at Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office (2020)
• Prosecutor-General (2020-2022)
• Retired from Public Prosecutors Office (2022)