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Masanori Tsukahara

Associate

Ho Chi Minh City Office

Main Practices
General Corporate Legal Affairs / General Civil Litigation / Labor Disputes / Arbitration, Conciliation, and Other ADR (Domestic) / Arbitration, Conciliation, and Other ADR (International) / Overseas Disputes and Litigation / General Compliance / Labor and Employment Law / Offshore Employment and Labor Laws / Vietnam / Laos/Thailand/Cambodia/Myanmar / Singapore
Languages
Japanese / English / Vietnamese
Office
Ho Chi Minh City
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Overview

Publications & Seminars

Awards

Admitted

Japan (2007)

Bar Association

Dai-Ichi Tokyo Bar Association

Education

Waseda University (B.A. in Political Science, 1992)
National University of Singapore (LL.M. in International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution, 2019)

Background

Worked in the newspaper industry (April 1992-May 2003)
Law Offices in Nagoya（September 2007-July 2026） 
Long-term Expert, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Legal and Judicial Development Project (Vietnam) (March 2014-April 2018)
Part-time Lecturer, Research and Education Center for Japanese Law, Nagoya University (at Hanoi Law University) (September 2017-April 2018)
Part-time Lecturer, School of Law, Nagoya University (October 2019-March 2020)
Senior Advisor to JICA (October 2021-)
Long-term Expert, JICA Legal and Judicial Development Project (Vietnam) (August 2022-December 2025)

Member

Member, Committee on International Relations of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations
Member, Japan Association of Arbitrators (JAA)

Publications

  • “Overview of the New Laws on the Organization of People’s Courts, the Law on Organization of People’s Procuracies, the Law on Enterprises, the Law on Investment, and the Law on Enforcement of Civil Judgments in Vietnam,” ICD NEWS, No. 63 (International Cooperation Department, Research and Training Institute, Ministry of Justice, Japan, 2015) [Co-author]
  • “The Role of Defense Counsel under Vietnam’s Amended Criminal Procedure Code and an Attempt to Share Japan’s Experience toward the Introduction of a Duty Lawyer System,” Liberty and Justice, Vol. 69 (2018)
  • “The Current Status of the Interpretation and Implementation of the Civil Code in Vietnam,” ICD NEWS, No. 74 (International Cooperation Department, Research and Training Institute, Ministry of Justice, Japan, 2018)
  • “The Communist Party of Vietnam’s ‘New Orientations’ on Legal and Judicial Reform,” ICD NEWS, No. 95 (International Cooperation Department, Research and Training Institute, Ministry of Justice, Japan, 2023) [Co-author]

Web Articles

  • “Vietnamese Laws,” JICA website [Translation of 34 laws]