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NAKANO Masayuki

NAKANO Masayuki

Title
Special Counsel

Career Summary

October 1954
Born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
March 1973
Graduated from LaSalle High School
March 1979
Received his LL.B. from the University of Tokyo
April 1979
Joined the Ministry of Labor (Present: Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare)
June 1988
Appointed as Manager of Employment Security Section, Department of Commerce, Industry, Tourism, Kumamoto Prefectural Government Office
July 1996
Appointed as Director-General of Employment Measures for Construction and Port Workers Office, Employment Security Bureau, Ministry of Labor (Present: Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare)
June 1998
Appointed as Director of Policy Planning Division, Industrial Safety and Health Department, Labor Standards Bureau Ministry of Labor (Present: Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare)
June 2000
Appointed as Director of General Affairs Division, Labor Standards Bureau, Ministry of Labor (Present: Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare)
January 2001
Appointed as Director of Inspection Division, Labor Standards Bureau, Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare (MHLW)
August 2002
Appointed as Counsellor (official in charge of Accounting) of Minister's Secretariat, MHLW
July 2004
Appointed as Director of Regional Bureau Administration Division, Minister's Secretariat, MHLW
July 2006
Appointed as Deputy Director-General for Policy Evaluation, Minister's Secretariat, MHLW
August 2007
Appointed as Deputy Director-General of Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Finance
August 2009
Appointed as Director-General for Policy Planning and Evaluation (official in charge of labor) of MHLW
2012-2014
Served as Director-General of Labor Standards Bureau, MHLW
March 2017
Received his J.D. from the Sophia University School of Law
December 2019
Received his Diploma from the Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan (72nd) ・Registered as a Japanese attorney
December 2019
Joined Iwata Godo

Practice Areas

Professional Memberships

Dai-Ichi Tokyo Bar Association

List of Main Publications

・Freelancers as Workers Under Employment Law" (Rodo Shimbun, a series of 12 articles, July to September, 2022)
・Employers’ Efforts Required by the Power Harassment Prevention Act (Roumu Jijo No. 1403, 2020)

List of Main Lectures

・“The Recent Revised Labor Legislations (1. Rules of Conversion of a Fixed-term Employment Contract to an Indefinite-term Employment Contract, 2. Equal Pay for Equal Work, 3. Power Harassment Prevention Act” (September 25, 2020, National Silver Human Resources Center Association)
・“Labor Standards Act for Hospital Doctors (including the Equal Employment Opportunity Act)” (November 3, 2014, 15th National Hospital Doctors Liaison Council of the Japan Ophthalmologists Association, The Journal of the Japan Ophthalmologists Association No.86:3 (2015), page 81)

Publications

  • 2024.07
    Publications

    Nakano Masayuki authors "Casual Workers: Legal Issues" in Nihon Horei's Business Guide

    Author:
    NAKANO Masayuki 
  • 2024.02
    Publications

    Nakano Masayuki authors "Dealing With Guidelines for Passing On Labor Costs" in Nihon Horei's Business Guide

    Author:
    NAKANO Masayuki 
  • 2023.11
    Publications

    Nakano Masayuki authors "Labor Standards Offices Report Subcontractor Harassment Cases to the JFTC: Dealing with the JFTC's Policy on Enabling Appropriate Price Increases" in SR, a journal for labor and social insurance professionals

    Author:
    NAKANO Masayuki 
  • 2023.10
    Publications

    Fujiwara Hiroki and Nakano Masayuki co-author "Major Work-related Accidents: Corporate Responsibilities and Practical Responses" in Roseijiho

  • 2023.08
    Publications

    Nakano Masayuki authors "Contents of New Freelance Law and Practical Issues to Be Addressed" in August 1 and 15 Roumu Jijo

    Author:
    NAKANO Masayuki 
  • 2022.10
    Publications

    Nakano Masayuki authored a series of 12 articles entitled "Freelancers as Workers Under Employment Law" in Rodo Shimbun (July to September)

    Author:
    NAKANO Masayuki 
  • 2021.04
    Publications

    Nakano Masayuki, Fujiwara Hiroki, Nakamura Saeko and Fukuchi Takumi co-authored the article titled "Basic Law Course Useful in Practice (70) Equal Pay for Equal Work" which appears in 4012 issue of Roseijiho.

Lectures, Seminars and Conferences

  • 2023.11

    Nakano Masayuki gave a webinar on "Dealing with the new Freelancer Protection Act" for Rodo Shimbun

    Speaker: NAKANO Masayuki 

  • 2023.02

    Nakano Masayuki is keynote speaker on "Unreasonable Differences in Treatment of Employees" at an equal pay conference of the Japan Federation of Labor and Social Security Attorneys' Associations

    Speaker: NAKANO Masayuki 

News

  • 2020.01

    We welcomed a new special counsel, Nakano Masayuki, the former Director-General of Labor Standards Bureau, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.