{"id":586,"date":"2019-06-26T01:56:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T16:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/?post_type=professional&#038;p=586"},"modified":"2024-03-11T15:26:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T06:26:34","slug":"kenji-yamamoto","status":"publish","type":"professional","link":"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/professionals\/kenji-yamamoto\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenji Yamamoto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kenji Yamamoto primarily handles corporate legal affairs and labor law issues. The central questions he seeks to answer in representing clients have always been, \u201cHow can corporations pursue justice?\u201d, and, \u201cWhat are the true interests of the client?\u201d Mr. Yamamoto has a great deal of experience in representing corporate clients in claims for damages made by claimant groups, and in the course of the pursuit of justice, he has come to believe that corporations must fulfill their social responsibilities appropriately. Based thereon, he has been dealing with many cases and has been providing advice relating to corporate governance, including assisting outside directors in business judgment decisions, as well as implementation of compliance measures, etc. Moreover, he has been actively involved in legal professional training by serving as a specially appointed law school professor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Work Highlights<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Pneumoconiosis lawsuits (attorney for the defendant company)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Claims for damages by HIV infected persons (attorney for the defendant company)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Case of moral rights of inventor \u2013 Method of collecting rare-earth metals (Osaka District Court, May 23, 2002 Judgment \/ 100 Patent Cases (4th Edition), See p. 56, Case 27, attorney for the plaintiff)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Case involving wage claims \u2013 dispute as to the nature of management\/supervisory positions  (Osaka District Court, April 28, 2000 Judgment \/ Labor Cases No. 787, See p. 30)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Case of claiming reimbursement for overpayments \u2013 Duty of disclosure of transaction history to debtors of moneylender (Supreme Court, July 19, 2005 Judgment \/ Volume 59-6 of Supreme Court Civil Cases, See p. 1783)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Case of a death caused by negligence in the conduct of business \u2013 Intervention of third party act and the relation of cause and effect (Supreme Court Decision, December 17, 1992 \/ 100 Criminal Law Cases I \u2013 Overview (5th Edition), See p. 26, Case 12)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education \uff06 Professional Career<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Jan 1996 &#8211; Present<\/td><td>Kitahama Partners, Partner<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 1991<\/td><td>Admitted to practice in Japan; Joined Kitahama Partners<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mar 1991<\/td><td>Graduated from the Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mar 1989<\/td><td>Osaka City University (LL.B.)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mar 1985<\/td><td>Acquired teacher\u2019s license in social studies of junior high school (first degree) and high school (second degree)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other Activities<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>2023<\/td><td>Deputy Director, Article 23 Inquiries Assessment Office, Osaka Bar Association<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 2022 \u2013 Present<\/td><td>Conflict of Interest Advisor, Conflict of Interest Management Committee, Osaka Metropolitan University<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2021<\/td><td>Chairperson, Disciplinary Committee, Osaka Bar Association<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2021<\/td><td>Chairperson, Public Relations Committee, Osaka Bar Association<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2020<\/td><td>Vice Chairperson, Disciplinary Committee, Osaka Bar Association<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2019<\/td><td>Member, Disciplinary Committee, Osaka Bar Association<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2018 &#8211; 2019<\/td><td>Chairperson, Law School Establishment and Management Support Center, Osaka Bar Association <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jun 2015 &#8211; Dec 2018<\/td><td>Outside Director, Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2015<\/td><td>Vice-President, Osaka Bar Association<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2013 &#8211; 2014<\/td><td>Vice-Chairperson, Committee on Legal Training for Judicial Apprentice, Osaka Bar Association<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2010 &#8211; Present<\/td><td>Specially Appointed Professor, Osaka Metropolitan University (formerly Osaka City University) Law School (Lectures on Preparation of Legal Documents, Foundation of Law Practice and Comprehensive Exercise of Civil Law)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jun 2010 &#8211; Jun 2015<\/td><td>Outside Auditor, Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2008 &#8211; 2017<\/td><td>Vice Chairperson, Law School Establishment and Management Support Center, Osaka Bar Association<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2005 &#8211; 2009<\/td><td>Adjunct Professor, Osaka City University Law School (Lectures on Law Concerning Small and Medium Enterprises, Civil Mock Trial, etc.)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Oct 2000 &#8211; Sep 2002<\/td><td>Member of Information Disclosure Screening Commission of Shigaraki-cho<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Others<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Acting Bankruptcy Trustee, Nova Corporation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Deputy Trustee, I-Food Corporation (formerly Ichifuji Food Serivice Corp.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Deputy Trustee, JDC Corporation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-586","professional","type-professional","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kenji Yamamoto -partner - Kitahama Partners<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kenji Yamamoto primarily handles corporate legal affairs and labor law issues. 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