Nakamura & Partners
Nakamura & Partners is a law firm in Japan, founded in 1914, with 20 professionals and 91 lawyers listed on its own site.
- Jurisdiction
- Japan
- Founded
- 1914
- Professionals
- 20
- Offices
- 5
- Recognitions
- 8
- Lawyers on file
- 91

Organization
1 practice areas and sectors · 91 lawyers on the firm’s siteHow Nakamura & Partners is organised, read from the titles and practice areas it publishes for each lawyer. A head is named only where the firm states one; otherwise the partner admitted earliest on record stands first and is labelled so.
87 lawyers list no practice area on the firm’s site; they appear in the list below.
Lawyers
91 on the firm’s own siteNames, titles and practice areas as Nakamura & Partners publishes them, senior titles first. Each name opens the firm’s own page for that person.
5 ranked individually by the directories, shown first
- Kazuhiko YOSHIDAPartner · admitted 1990Chambers: Eminent Practitioners, Intellectual Property: Domestic1 firm post
- Yoshio KUMAKURAPartner · admitted 1969Chambers: Senior Statespeople, Intellectual Property: Domestic
- Koichi TSUJIIPartner · admitted 1983Chambers: Band 2, Intellectual Property: Domestic
- Kei IIDAPartner · admitted 1995Chambers: Band 3, Intellectual Property: Domestic4 firm posts
- Hideki TAKAISHIPartner · admitted 2002Chambers: Band 4, Intellectual Property: Domestic3 firm posts
- Akikazu HAYASHIPartner · admitted 2010
- Akira WATANABEPartner · admitted 1999
- Aoi MIZUFUCHIPartner · admitted 2025
- Aya NAKAYAMAPartner · admitted 2025
- Ayumi TOKUMASUPartner · admitted 2007
- Daisaku FUJIKURAPartner
- Eiichiro HINOPartner · admitted 2008
- Eiji TOMIOKAPartner · admitted 1993
- Eriko KITAHARAPartner1 firm post
- Fumitaka TAMAKIPartner · admitted 2003
- Gen TASHIROPartner
- Hidekazu NISHIMURAPartner · admitted 2016
- Hideyuki KUBOTAPartner
- Hideyuki SAWADAPartner · admitted 2022
- Hiroko SUZUKIPartner · admitted 2006
- Hironobu HATTORIPartner
- Hiroyuki NISHIDAPartner · admitted 2025
- Hiroyuki SUDAPartner · admitted 2004
- Jun ATSUMIPartner · admitted 2011
Directory placements
1 practice areas · read from the publishers’ tablesWhere the directories place Nakamura & Partners, practice area by practice area, as each table stands on the publisher’s own site. Each cell links to that table. The columns are the same on every page of this site.
| Practice area | Chambers | The Legal 500 |
|---|---|---|
| Intellectual Property | Band 1 | — |
Recognition
8 announcementsWhat other publishers have said, as Nakamura & Partners reports it on its own site, with the lawyers each announcement names. Each entry links to the page where it was read.
Asian Legal BusinessRanked2025
Ranked “Tier 1” in ALB ASIA IP RANKINGS 2025ChambersRanked2025
Ranked “Tier 1” in ALB ASIA IP RANKINGS 2025ChambersRanked2025
Ranked “GOLD” in World Trademark Review 1000 in 2025Asian Legal BusinessRanked2025
Ranked “Tier 1” in Asian Legal Business (ALB)ChambersRanked2025
Ranked “Tier 1” in Asian Legal Business (ALB)Asia Business Law JournalBand 12026
Awards | NAKAMURA & PARTNERS
ChambersBand 12026
Intellectual Property: Domestic
“Chambers Asia-Pacific 2026: Band 1, Intellectual Property: Domestic, Japan”
Chambers’s published table
From the Firm
What Nakamura & Partners has published on its own site lately: news, deals, recognitions and publications. Each links to the firm.
- Legal Updates
publication · Nov 2026 · names Kei IIDA, Hideki TAKAISHI, Eriko KITAHARA
- 【論稿/商標】商標の類否に関する近年の裁判例について-商標法4条1項11号を中心に-(山田朋彦、パテント誌2025年10月)
publication · Nov 2026 · names
- 【論稿/商標】近年の商標の識別性に関する拒絶査定不服審判の審決の現状及び課題(浅田瑠衣、山田朋彦、パテント誌2025年10月)
publication · Nov 2026 · names
- ニュース&トピックス
publication · Nov 2026
- Attorney-at-Law and Patent Attorney Reiko Tonomura Delivered a Lecture Entitled “Initiatives for Exporting Agricultural Products” at a Practical Seminar on the Protection and Utilization of Agricultural Intellectual Property.
publication · Oct 2026 · names Kei IIDA, Reiko TONOMURA, Masakazu KOBAYASHI
- ニュース&トピックス
publication · Oct 2026
Record
- Jurisdiction
- Japan
- Founded
- Not stated
- Entity source
- The firm's own website
- Firm’s site read
- 9 Nov 2026
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