Our firm conducts extensive research and analysis, primarily through literature reviews and interviews, on the outlines and latest updates concerning various regulatory trends and related policies. Currently, Japan faces essential challenges such as new financial risks, safety and security, energy transition, aging population, digitalization, and cybersecurity. These issues are crucially interlinked with the financial sector, considered a critical infrastructure, necessitating comprehensive responses. We assist a wide range of clients, including government agencies, local governments, and private companies, by identifying problems, extracting issues, and providing support from legal, systemic, and service-oriented perspectives. Our support includes creating foundational materials for policy advancement and revising guidelines to address new challenges, offering numerous clients valuable information and insights based on our research and analysis.

To meet our clients' expectations, we focus on setting the scope through meticulous communication, sharing challenges, and aligning outputs. In each project, we often appoint a project leader and, depending on the research theme, involve internal experts as advisors to optimize and enhance quality control. Our research methods are based on the specialized knowledge of our staff in law, administration, finance, digital technology, and cybersecurity, involving in-depth literature reviews using public information and various specialized databases. Additionally, when necessary, we conduct on-site interviews to gather firsthand information.

We also facilitate the organization of workshops and seminars tailored to our clients' needs, supporting the advancement of various initiatives and providing hands-on support to stakeholders. In this way, our approach to regulatory trend research goes beyond mere information gathering. We aim to offer solutions for challenges that cannot be addressed by existing knowledge or precedents, focusing on supporting our clients' long-term needs.

• Provides foundational information and insights necessary for government agencies and corporations to consider future policies and business developments.
• Offers information on various regulatory trends and the latest trends in society and business, based on expert knowledge and analysis.
• Organizes clients' challenges based on issue analysis and proposes necessary information related to regulatory trends and other trends.