As one of only a few Japanese attorneys in the United States focusing on business immigration work specific to Japanese organizations, Shintaro serves as a strategic advisor to clients in both countries. He leads Fragomen’s Japanese Business Group in the firm’s New York office.

Shintaro has more than 25 years of experience working with Japanese organizations in both the United States and Japan. He effectively collaborates with the U.S. embassy and consulates in Japan to ensure his clients’ transfers of key personnel are in compliance with regulations and without incident, allowing organizations to execute their most important projects—through the help of skilled talent—in a timely fashion. He often travels to Japan to coordinate meetings between consular officers and client representatives, facilitating a collective understanding of the staffing requirements for projects.

Given the global nature of Shintaro’s work, he deeply values in-person connection with clients and is dedicated to visiting them on an annual basis, providing strategic consultation and guidance on all matters of U.S. immigration and nationality law, regulation, policy and compliance. In particular, he has advised many multinational corporations on the immigration-related consequences of corporate mergers and acquisitions and corporate start-ups, as well as current practices at the U.S. consular posts in Japan.