Notice regarding pro bono translation services (Pro Bono T&I Team)

Pro bono translation services (Pro bono T&I (Translation and Interpretation) Team) are activities lawyers and staff members at Atsumi & Sakai participate in voluntarily, aiming to offer a bridge between those who provide legal services and those who need such services beyond language barriers by providing interpreters at legal consultations as well as translating and disseminating PR information for legal consultations in multiple languages.

 

Although Bar associations and other organizations provide a variety of opportunities for legal consultations, due to language barriers, foreigners living in Japan who do not speak or read Japanese often don't even know that there are legal consultation services available, let alone opportunities to seek legal advice. Therefore, we aim to support such foreigners to access legal services not only at the legal consultation stage, but also by cooperating from the PR stage.

Our translation pro bono services include assisting Bar associations and other organizations in conducting free consultations and other services. It is not always easy to provide and respond to information in multiple languages at each stage of the PR and consultation process, but in order to ensure that legal services are available to all people, it is necessary for information to reach foreign residents who need assistance in their required language. We aim to provide assistance with translation in PR activities and assistance with interpretation at consultation meetings in such situations.

 

Translation of critical information at the time of disasters is also one of our pro bono translation services. Consultation services for affected foreign nationals need to provide highly specialized information on disaster-related and legal topics in the language required. On the other hand, situations can arise where it is difficult to disseminate information with the assistance of an interpretation specialist. Therefore, A&S, which has been providing legal services in multiple languages for many years, aims to support the communication of information needed in the affected areas by disseminating multilingual information about legal consultation services, etc. and providing translation services for legal consultations to the affected areas.

 

・Tokyo Bar Association: Produced by and under the responsibility of the Disaster Response and Reconstruction Assistance for the Great East Japan Earthquake, etc. Committee
　Disaster Support Information Bulletin (Heavy Rainfall Support published September 11, 2025) (Japanese)

　Disaster Support Information Bulletin (Heavy Rainfall Support published September 11, 2025) (English)  

・HISAPO (Support information page for people affected by a disaster)
　​​​​​​​Support or Disaster Victims (Japanese)

　​​​​​​​Support or Disaster Victims (English)