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Kazuo Katayama
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Kazuo Katayama

Special Counsel

Main Practices
Banking / Financial Regulation / Risk Management / General Compliance / Insider Trading and Market Manipulation / Labor and Employment Compliance / Corporate Governance / Shareholder Meetings / General Corporate Legal Affairs / Establishing Companies and Businesses for Startups / Regional Finance / Tax Advice and Tax Planning / Tax Disputes and Administrative Disputes / Real Estate Transactions / Pharmaceuticals, Cosmetics, and Medical Devices / Medical Institutions / Antitrust Compliance and Investigations / Subcontracting and Misrepresentations / General Civil Litigation / WTO, Trade Agreements, and Investment Agreements
Languages
Japanese / English
Office
Tokyo
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Overview

Publications & Seminars

Awards

Admitted

Japan (2020)

Bar Association

Dai-ichi Tokyo Bar Association

Education

The University of Tokyo (LL.B., 1983)
The Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan (This training is in accordance with Article 5 of the Lawyer Law)
London School of Economics Political Science (LSE) (Certificate in Economics, 1986)

Background

Ministry of Finance (1983)
Kinki Local Finance Bureau, Deputy Director of Finance Division (1994)
Financial Service Agency (former Financial Supervisory Agency),  Commissioner’s Secretariat, Managing Director (1999)
JETRO Copenhagen Office, General Manager (2000)
Ministry of Finance, Financial Bureau, Director of Debt Management Policy Division (2007)
Ministry of Finance, Minister’s Secretariat, Director of Government Financial Institutions Division (2008)
Tohoku Local Finance Bureau, General Manager (2009)
Seconded to NIDEC CORPORATION (as a Personal Exchange between Public and Private Sectors) (2010)
Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan, Director of Resolution and Financial Revitalization Department (2012)
Councillor, Cabinet Secretariat (2013)
Osaka Customs, Managing Director (2015)
Yokohama Customs, Managing Director (2017)
National Tax Tribunal, Deputy General Manager (2018)
TKS CO., LTD. (2019-), Advisor (2019-)
Nippon Life Insurance Company, Advisor (2019-2022)

The Securities Analysts Association of Japan, Senior Vice President（2022-2023), Managing Director (2023-)

Publications

  • "Administrative Officials Report: Current Status and Future Prospects of Government Bond Management Policy (Part 2)" Financial Journal Monthly (September 2008)
  • "Administrative Officials Report: Current Status and Future Prospects of Government Bond Management Policy (Part 1)" Financial Journal Monthly (August 2008)
  • "Government Bond Management Policy and Appropriate Debt Management; Interview with Kazuo Katayama, Director of Debt Management Policy Division, Financial Bureau, Ministry of Finance, Japan" Monthly Report on Municipal Bonds (October 2007)
  • Detailed Explanation of the National Government Employees, etc. Retirement Allowance Act, Retirement Allowance System Research Group, Gakuyo Shobo (August, 2006) [Editor/Author]
  • "On the Reform of the Financial Administration System" Finance (Ministry of Finance) (October 1997)
  • "About the "Draft of the Act on the Promotion of the Development of Specified Facilities for the Disposal of Industrial Waste"," Japan Chemical Industry Association Monthly Report (June 1992)
  • "Measures against "White Powder": Strengthening Border Controls against the Smuggling of Stimulants, Cannabis, and Narcotics," Finance (Ministry of Finance) (October 1989) 

Web Articles

  • "Government Bonds for Individuals: Emphasis on "Understandability" and "Safety," Interview with Kazuo Katayama, Director of Market Finance Division, Financial Bureau, Ministry of Finance," K-ZONE money (March 14, 2007)

Seminars

  • "Corporate Disclosure from the Securities Analysts' Perspective -What Points of Corporate Financial and Non-Financial Statements do Securities Analysts focus on and Analyze?"  (Corporate Integrated Report Seminar sponsored by J-MONEY Conference on December 15, 2022)

  • "Recent Trade Trends and Customs Administration" held on April 26, 2018, hosted by the Permanent Committee of the Yokohama Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • "Things we can learn from Denmark, and the TPP" at a luncheon held on December 24, 2015 hosted by the Osaka Port Promotion Club