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To protect, grow,
and pass along
Attorneys | Partner
Naoki Ikeda
･ Affiliated with the Osaka office
･ Languages: Japanese, English (licensed attorney in the US state of Michigan)
Specializations
Environment and energy
SME law
I have nearly 40 years' experience as an attorney. If I were an employee, I would be nearing retirement age. Since I already have handed over management of the office, I want to devote the rest of my career to protection, growth, and passing along.
To protect: Today, our peace, environment, safety, and stability are at risk of sudden collapse. As a veteran attorney, I aim to build on my protective abilities and demonstrate them daily by using my imagination to envision an enriched future and take the initiative while being ready for risks.
To grow: Together with developing the legal human resources of the future, I will strive to develop the next generation through broad cooperation with schools and numerous nonprofits while also taking on the challenges of the field, such as renewable energy and agriculture.
To pass along: Japan's shrinking population faces various issues related to succession. Together with passing along my own responsibilities, I will work together with all stakeholders to address issues in the corporate, community, family, and other spheres.
Brief career history
- 1985
Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo in 1985 (LL.B)
- 1987
Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan (1985-87)(Bengoshi)
Registered with Osaka Bar Association in 1987- 1993
School of Law, Michigan University in 1993 (LL.M)
Associate at Dickinson Wright in Detroit from 1993 to 1994 (Licensed in Michigan)- 2003
Established Asunaro Law Office in 2003
Affiliations, activities
・Professor of Kwansei Gakuin University Law School since 2004 (Environmental Law, Professional Practice)
・Chairperson, Pollution and Environmental Protection Committee, Japan Federation of Bar Associations (since 2024)
・Managing Director, Juvenile Equal Opportunity (since 2024)
・Board Member of Japan Environmental Lawyers Federation
・Board Member of Japan Asian Friendship Society
・Director, WWF Japan
・Board Member of Nihon Volunteer Network Active in Disaster
・Auditor, COMSI
・Chairperson, City of Takarazuka Waste Reduction Council (since 2018)
・Member of Japan Association for Environmental Law and Policy
・Japan Clinical Legal Education Association
Past track record
Environment, renewable energy
Environmental cases (including accidents and occupational injuries)
Compensation for damage due to rockslide in Atami (representing some plaintiffs), Civil injunction request against Kobe Steel coal-fired power plant, Litigation on cancellation of environmental impact finalization notice for the above, Mitsuboshi Chemicals bladder cancer case, Litigation on supervisory disposition obligation under the City Planning Act in the city of Takarazuka, Compensation for damage due to asbestos in Shukugawa demolition, Shiga large horse chestnut tree preservation litigation, Nishiyoshino Fuji industrial waste case (litigation on obligation to order measures etc.), Gojo surplus soil treatment center provisional disposition case, Litigation by residents against the Kawanishi general waste facility, Japan Red Cross site soil pollution mediation case, Nurse glutaraldehyde chemical sensitivity case, Neyagawa plastic waste processing plant case, Ferrosilt shareholder's representative litigation case against Ishihara Sangyo and other Nose dioxin cases (pollution mediation, occupational injury litigation, resident audit, etc.), Hashimoto dioxin pollution mediation
SME law
SME law
M&A, Business rehabilitation, Contract law, Harassment, Neighborhood matters etc.
International services
International cases
US class-action suits, Negotiations on compensation for damages for (some) survivors of the Ehime-maru incident (against the US Navy)
Others
Employment-related cases
University internal issues (academic harassment, sexual harassment, abuse of power, internal irregularities) and occupational injury (fire, death by overwork, suicide due to overwork, falls, etc.)
Hours: 9:30-17:00 weekdays
81-(0)6-6268-5070