President’s Message

Yutaro KIKUCHI, President of the JFBA

Welcome to the Japan Federation of Bar Associations ("JFBA").

In the JFBA presidential election held on February 9, 2018, I was fortunate enough to receive 13,014 votes, the largest ever in JFBA history, including many votes from across all of the 52 local bar associations around Japan. I am truly grateful for the strong support shown by receiving as much as 80% of all votes cast.

To date, the JFBA has worked extensively on the wide-ranging issues faced by our society as well as on the issues related to attorneys in the JFBA’s role as an organization committed to its mission to protect human rights and achieve social justice. We have particularly focused our efforts on carrying out activities to provide relief for the socially vulnerable and to improve the judicial system so as to make it truly reliable and accessible for citizens. We will continue to dedicate our further strengthened efforts to resolve these issues by building upon and learning from the efforts made by our predecessors.

2018/12/10	Comment on the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
2018/10/05	Resolution Aiming at Preventing and Recovering Damage, and Supporting Victims of Organized Crimes Targeting the Socially Vulnerable, Notably Special Fraud (Summary)
	Declaration Calling for the Introduction of a New System to Accept Foreign Workers and the Establishment of a New Society in which People from Various National Backgrounds can Live Together (Summary)
	Resolution Calling for a Society in which Young People can See Hope for the Future (Summary)
2018/10/02	Symposium　Why is it necessary to ratify the Optional Protocol to Eliminate Discrimination against Women?　～We think with Ms.Patricia Schulz (Chair of Working Group on Communications of CEDAW)～
2018/09/05	2018 ESG Seminar Series II　Conversations with lawyers from the International Bar Association (IBA) and former Japanese general counsel“Global trends of Business & Human Rights and the role of lawyers and in-house counsel in Japan”
2018/08/23	Guide on ESG-related Risk Management - for Coordinated Efforts and Dialogue among Companies, Investors, and Financial Institutions (Summary)
2018/07/26	Statement Strongly Protesting Today’s Executions and Calling for an Immediate Moratorium and the Abolition of the Death Penalty by 2020
2018/07/06	Statement Strongly Protesting Today’s Executions and Calling for an Immediate Moratorium and the Abolition of the Death Penalty by 2020
2018/06/15	Opinion Calling for the Formulation of a Basic Energy Plan Consistent with the Paris Agreement (Summary)
2018/06/13	Statement on the Enactment of the Act to Partially Amend the Civil Code to Lower the Age of Adulthood
2018/04/13	Opinion Calling for the Establishment by Law of the Right to Have Counsel Present in Interrogations (Summary)
2018/03/29	Request to Suspend Executions
2018/02/14	JFBA Opinion concerning the Japanese Government’s Comments on the Draft General Comment No.36 on Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
2017/12/21	Statement on the Performance of the Verification of the Identity of the client by Attorneys, etc.

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