{"id":5,"date":"2015-03-10T01:41:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T01:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yuasa-hara.co.jp\/english\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2025-12-05T11:44:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:44:41","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yuasa-hara.co.jp\/english\/about\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"

YUASA AND HARA was established by ex-Judge Toyotaro Yuasa in 1902.\u00a0 His son, Dr. Kyozo Yuasa, who studied in the UK and qualified as Barrister-at-Law, started his career in Japan in the 1920s and engaged in many international legal and IP cases for major banks and enterprises in Europe and the US from the early 1940s onwards.\u00a0 International activities continued to increase after the office was moved from Osaka to Tokyo in 1947.<\/p>\n

Below is a chronological glance at YUASA AND HARA\u2019s growth over the past 110 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
1902<\/th>\nEx-judge Toyotaro Yuasa establishes \u201cYuasa Law Office\u201d in Osaka.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1924<\/th>\nDr. Kyozo Yuasa goes to the UK to study law.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1927<\/th>\nDr. Kyozo Yuasa qualifies as a barrister and comes back to Japan in the following year.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1929<\/th>\nDr. Kyozo Yuasa registers as a patent attorney to start IP filing services in addition to international legal services.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1945<\/th>\nDr. Kyozo Yuasa is appointed counsel to General Headquarters, the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (GHQ\/SCAP).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1947<\/th>\nThe office is moved from Osaka to Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1951<\/th>\nEx-assistant professor of Tokyo University Hiroshi Kawai joins the firm as attorney-at-law.
\nAn ex-legal director of the Closed Institutions Liquidating Commission (CILC), Yoshikatsu Sakamoto, joins the firm as attorney-at-law.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1953<\/th>\nDr. Kyozo Yuasa wins loan contracts from the World Bank and the Export-Import Bank of Washington for funds for postwar reconstruction of the nation\u2019s key industries.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1958<\/th>\nThe firm changes its name to \u201cYuasa and Sakamoto Law & Patent Office\u201d and becomes a partnership.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1959<\/th>\nEx-director general of the JPO appeals department, Mitsuya Ikenaga, joins the firm as a patent attorney, and the Patent Division becomes a separate department.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
around 1960<\/th>\nPatent litigation cases handled by the firm drastically increase.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1963<\/th>\nThe firm changes its English name to \u201cYuasa, Sakamoto, Kawai and Ikenaga.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1965<\/th>\nA certified public accountant, Akira Kagawa, a former government official of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, joins the firm and the Accounting Division is established.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1967<\/th>\nAn ex-judge of the Tokyo High Court, Masuji Hara, joins the firm.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1969<\/th>\nDr. Kyozo Yuasa becomes the\u00a0President of Japan Patent Attorneys Association\u00a0(JPAA).\u00a0 He also calls for establishment of the Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA) and is elected as the 1st President thereof.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1970<\/th>\nAn ex-judge, Shigeru Ogiso, joins the firm after a career at the Ministry of Justice.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1971<\/th>\nAttorney-at-law Yoshikatsu Sakamoto resigns to become a judge of the Supreme Court.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1972<\/th>\nThe firm changes its Japanese name to \u201cYuasa & Hara\u00a0Law & Patent Office\u201d.\u00a0 The English name has been \u201cYuasa and Hara\u201d since then.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1983<\/th>\nAn ex-director general of the JPO Appeals Department, Ichio Shamoto, joins the firm and becomes the chief partner of the Patent Division.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1991<\/th>\nThe firm changes its Japanese name to \u201cYuasa Law & Patent Office\u201d after the passing of attorney-at-law Masuji Hara.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998<\/th>\nThe Trademark & Design Division separates from the Patent Division.\u00a0 An ex-judge of the Tokyo High Court, Toshiaki Makino, joins the firm.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002<\/th>\nThe 100th anniversary ceremony is held in Tokyo, Japan and the U.S.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/th>\nAn ex-deputy commissioner of the JPO, Shinjiro Ono, joins the firm and becomes the chief partner of the Patent Division.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014<\/th>\nAn ex-chief judge of the IP High Court, Toshiaki Iimura, joins the firm.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

YUASA AND HARA was established by ex-Judge Toyotaro Yuasa in 1902.\u00a0 His son, Dr. Kyozo Yuasa, who studied in the UK and qualified as Barrister-at-Law, started his career in Japan in the 1920s and engaged in many international legal and IP cases for major banks and enterprises in Europe and the US from the early 1940s onwards.\u00a0 International activities continued to increase after the office was moved from Osaka to Tokyo in 1947. Below is a chronological glance at YUASA AND HARA\u2019s growth over the past 110 years. 1902 Ex-judge Toyotaro Yuasa establishes \u201cYuasa Law Office\u201d in Osaka. 1924 Dr. Kyozo Yuasa goes to the UK to study law. 1927 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuasa-hara.co.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuasa-hara.co.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuasa-hara.co.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuasa-hara.co.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuasa-hara.co.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuasa-hara.co.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2991,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuasa-hara.co.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/2991"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuasa-hara.co.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuasa-hara.co.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}