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藤井 康次郎 Kojiro FUJII

藤井 康次郎
藤井 康次郎

Kojiro FUJII

  • Partner
  • Tokyo

  • He is a leading figure offering both advisory and contentious services in relation to a host of international trade issues, including investigations into anti-dumping, state subsidies and export controls. He is sought after by foreign and domestic government bodies, multinational corporations and industry associations for his expertise.

    Chambers Global International Trade (Japan) Band 1

Kojiro Fujii specializes in a broad range of practice areas, including competition law, international trade law, digital regulations, and public policy. He has been recognized by and received numerous awards from major media outlets, such as Chambers, Nikkei, The Financial Times, and Asian Legal Business.

Kojiro Fujii specializes in the fields of competition law and international trade law. He also covers emerging areas of digital policy/regulations and public policy/regulations, such as those related to sustainability. His expertise in these areas is frequently recognized by international and domestic legal publications. Kojiro also is regularly ranked by Chambers (Band 1 International Trade, Japan and Band 2 TMT, Japan) and Who’s Who Legal (Competition). He achieved the highest ranking in the “International Trade and Economic Security” category of Nikkei’s “Most successful lawyers” (as voted by Japanese companies and peer lawyers) in 2022; he was recognized by Asian Legal Business as one of the Top 15 Technology, Media and Telecommunications Lawyers in Asia in 2023; and he was shortlisted for the FT Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific as the Most Innovative Practitioner for his work covering those areas in 2024.

In addition to his career at N&A, he served as the deputy director of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, where he handled several important WTO disputes on behalf of the Japanese government. He also worked at a highly reputable international law firm in Washington DC, where he focused on antitrust matters.

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Education

2011
New York University School of Law (LL.M. in Competition Innovation & Information, Hauser Global Scholar, Frank T. Diersen Prize, Betty Bock Prize in Competition Policy)
2004
The University of Tokyo (LL.B.)

Professional Experience

A committee member of International data governance advisory board of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and Digital Agency
A committee member of the Task Force for the Creation of New Startup Markets of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
A committee member of the Japan Economic Foundation study group on a rules-based international economic system 
A committee member of the study group on cross-border data transfer of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry 
Committee Member of the Antidumping and Joint Petition Study Group of Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry 
A committee member of the Ministry of Finance Study Group on the Tariff System 
A committee member of Trade and Investment Committee of Japan Machinery Center for Trade and Investment 
A committee member of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's Study Group on WTO Jurisprudence 
A committee member of the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan's Study Group on Energy and Law 
A committee member of Agency for Natural Resources and Energy's Study Group on Procurement Method of Raw Materials  
Deputy Director Multilateral Trade System Department, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry 
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Washington D.C. 
A committee member of the Study Group of International Investment Arbitration of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry