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Kotaro Ohno
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Kotaro Ohno

Advisor/Consultant

Main Practices
Risk Management / General Compliance / Internal Audits / Regulatory Investigations (Domestic and Foreign) / Social Media Risk and Reputational Damage / Accounting Fraud / Insider Trading and Market Manipulation / Anti-bribery (Domestic) / Anti-bribery (Foreign) / Product Quality and Inspection Fraud / Data Protection, Data Leaks, and Cybersecurity / Product Liability / Internal Reporting Systems / Money Laundering and Proceeds of Crime / Corporate Governance / Corporate and White Collar Crime
Languages
Japanese / English
Office
Tokyo
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Overview

Publications & Seminars

Awards

Admitted

Japan (2016)

Bar Association

Dai-ichi Tokyo Bar Association

Education

University of Tokyo (LL.B., 1974)
Harvard Law School (LL.M., 1978)

Background

Public Prosecutor at Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office (1976)
Assigned to Criminal Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Justice (1982)
Public Prosecutor at Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office (1987)
Public Prosecutor at Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office (1989)
Counsellor, Criminal Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Justice (1994)
Counsellor, Minister’s Secretariat, Ministry of Justice (1996)
Director of the General Affairs Division, Criminal Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Justice (1998)
Director-General of the General Affairs Department, Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office (2000)
Deputy Director-General of the Office for Promotion of Justice System Reform Within the Cabinet (2001)
Chief Prosecutor at Utsunomiya District Public Prosecutors Office (2004)
Director-General of the General Affairs Department, Supreme Public Prosecutors Office (2005)
Director-General of the Criminal Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Justice (2007) Vice-Minister of Justice (2009)
Superintending Prosecutor at Sendai High Public Prosecutors Office (2011)
Superintending Prosecutor at Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office (2012)
Prosecutor-General (2014)
Retired (2016)
Mori Hamada & Matsumoto (2016-2022)

Member

Vice-President of Hosokai (2017-2021)
President of International Civil and Commercial Law Centre Foundation (2017-)
Councillor for Asia Crime Prevention Foundation (2017-)
Member of Government Auditing Consultative Committee, Board of Audit of Japan (2017-2022)
Special Adviser for the Liability Investigation Committee, Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan (2018-2022)
Representative of Gakushikai (2019-)
Member of Public Prosecutor's Qualifications Examination Committee, Ministry of Justice (2019-)
Director of AEON 1% Club Foundation (2023-)

Publications

  • Legal Practice for Handling Corporate Crises and Wrongdoing Cases [2nd edition], Shojihomu Co., Ltd. (2018) [Co-author]
  • “Current State and Practical Issues of Extradition,” Horitsu no hiroba Vol. 37 No. 7, the Gyosei Corporation (1984)
  • “The Convention on the Law of the Sea and Criminal Law,” Hanrei Times No.515(1984)
  • “Globalization of Crime and its Legal Issues,” Jurist No.781 (1983)