
Wakaba Hara (LL.B., LL.M)
Former Japanese Contributor
Wakaba is in private practise at Makino-Law, prior to which she worked for the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Her work there involved all areas of intellectual property law and corporate law focusing on international protection of intellectual property. She has studied at Keio University, Japan; the Legal Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan and Columbia University School of Law, United States following which she was an associate lawyer at Mitsui, Yasuda, Wani & Maeda, Tokyo. She is a member of Dai-ichi Tokyo Bar Association and Japan Federation of Bar Associations since 1990.