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Hisako Takahashi

Hisako Takahashi

Attorney admitted in Japan Daini Tokyo Bar Association

Japanese, English

Hisako Takahashi graduated from the University of Tokyo (LL.B., 2005) and the University of Tokyo School of Law (J.D., 2007). In addition, she earned an LL.M. in Environmental Law and Policy at Stanford Law School in 2015. She began her legal career at Mori Hamada & Matsumoto since 2009. Following the 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan, she served on the National Diet’s Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission. She worked as a part-time intern at the Japan Office of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in 2013. She was a Stanford University Schneider Fellow at the World Resources Institute’s Global Energy Program in 2015. Prior to joining ZeLo, she worked for the Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. Her main practice areas include general corporate, labor and employment law, environmental and energy law, and sustainability issues.

Education

2015
Stanford Law School, Master of Laws (LL.M.)
2007
Graduate Schools for Law and Politics,The University of Tokyo
2005
Faculty of Law, The University of Tokyo (LL.B.)

Experience

2024
Appointed as an Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member at Elephantech Inc.
2021
Joined ZeLo
2016
Joined Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc.
2015
Worked at World Resources Institute (Global Energy Program・Schneider Fellow, Washington D.C.)
2013
Worked at International Labour Organization Office in Japan (Intern)
2011
Worked at the National Diet of Japan Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission, Research Project Management Team (Assistant Director of Research)
2009
Joined Mori Hamada & Matsumoto
2008
Registered with the Daini Tokyo Bar Association
2007
Passed the Japanese Bar Examination

Representative Works

  • The Official Report of the National Diet of Japan Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission (July 2012, Japanese and English versions)

Activities

  • AI and Law Society – Symposium Secretariat
  • General Incorporated Association Public Meets Innovation Legal Community
  • Japan In-House Lawyers Association (JILA)
  • Committee on the Promotion and Dissemination of Legal Education, Daini Tokyo Bar Association
  • Community Designer, Piazza Inc. (2020–2021)

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