Hideo specializes in the areas of environment and labour law. Hideo's practice focuses on providing advice and legal services for companies entering into international agreements. His areas of specialty include contract law concerning joint venture projects, partnerships, hotel and resort management, franchising, technical assistance, marketing, licensing, joint development, plants manufacturing, and service; due diligence relating to mergers and acquisitions; international litigation and arbitration; labour law associated with corporate restructuring, early retirement packages, adjustment termination, and selective termination; environmental law; and union negotiations. The following list highlights some of Hideo's recent transactions work : Advised on a CER resulting from a forestation CDM project. Advised on CERs resulting from CDM projects. JI research. Performed environmental due diligence for a US company's acquisition of a factory in Japan. Advised on the development of environmental systems. Advised on soil contamination regulations in Japan. Researched recent litigation concerning air pollution. Assisted U.S. and French subsidiary companies in the acquisition of several semiconductor factories located in Japan. Assisted a French subsidiary in the acquisition of several automobile components manufacturing factories located in Japan. Represented a Japanese company in its acquisition of several Asian subsidiaries and subsequent corporate restructuring. Environment and Operation Legal Due Diligence (Phase I and/or Phase II) on more than eight hundred sites Environmental Due Diligence in connection with the acquisition of factories Advices on Recent Development of Environmental Systems Advices on Soil Contamination Regulations Research on Recent Litigation in relation to Air Pollution Research and Advice on Kyoto Protocol and Japanese CDM and JI mechanism Hideo's publications include “Soil Contamination Prevention Law and M&A” (Journal of Junkan Keiri Joho, February, 2003),“Soil Contamination Prevention Law: Q&A” (published in March, 2003 by Chuo Keizaisha), "Special Problems and Aspects of Canada's Foreign Investment Law" (subject of LL.M. thesis at Queen's University), "Trends of Canadian Foreign Investment Practice" (Journal of the Japanese Institute of International Business Law, Vol. 10, No. 9), "Indirect Acquisitions of Canadian Corporations and Canadian Foreign Investment Law" (Journal of the Japanese Institute of International Business Law, Vol. 10, No. 12), "Asian Business Legal Guide" (an essay on Vietnam in Nikkei BP, 1996) and "Points of New Foreign Investment Law in Vietnam" (Journal of Accounting, February 20, 1997). Hideo also presented a draft Soil Pollution Control Act sponsored by a domestic institution to a major financial company group. He is a member of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations and the Tokyo Bar Association. Hideo graduated from the Chuo University Faculty of Law in 1972 and received an LL.M. from the Faculty of Law, Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, in 1981. Hideo teaches Litigation Practice Law and Environmental Law at the Law School of Chuo University and became a full time professor of law in 2010.