About 20 years ago, a group of professors including myself accepted a request to write a monograph on Japanese corporate law for the Encyclopedia of Laws published by the Dutch publishing company Kluwer and Law International, but owing to the enactment of a law in 2006, this had to be completely rewritten. We asked Ms Shibahara to take on the work of translating the monograph which she completed using elegant English and, moreover, in a short amount of time.

Based on the translation, Professor Yasuhiro Kawaguchi and partner and attorney, Mr. Takayuki Kihira edited the translation from a specialized perspective and we were finally able to keep our promise by sending it to the publisher’s.

At a time when information from Japan is in high demand, such a translator as Ms. Shibahara provides wonderful practical support.