Business and Human Rights 2025

JAPAN Trends and Developments Contributed by: Hideaki Roy Umetsu, Aki Tanaka, Aritsune Miyoda and Chihiro Tsukada, Mori Hamada

Aritsune Miyoda is a partner at Mori Hamada with over 12 years of experience. His practice

Chihiro Tsukada is a counsel at Mori Hamada with over ten years of experience, primarily focused on crisis management and compliance practices – including providing support for

focuses on global compliance matters, business and human rights, and cross-border and domestic M&A transactions. He has extensive experience handling foreign bribery regulations/corruption, internal investigations, white-collar crimes, and other corporate criminal matters. He is an officer of the International Commerce and Distribution Committee of the International Bar Association.

corporate efforts to address human rights matters. He was seconded to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, where he directly drafted the Guidelines on Respecting Human Rights in Responsible Supply Chains. He published his single- authored book titled “Business and Human Rights – From Basics to Actual Practice” in April 2024. In 2024, He committed to donate 1% of his annual income to organisations that address human-rights and/or environmental issues.

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