Fukuoka Chuo Branch of Fukuoka Gyoseishoshi Lawyers Association

Thank you very much for visiting the website of Fukuoka-Chuo Branch of Fukuoka Gyoseishoshi Lawyers Association.

It has been 5 years and 10 months since I was appointed as the General Manager of Fukuoka-Chuo Branch. We offer our services in Chuo-ku of Fukuoka-shi. The city has shown remarkable growth with a population which has been increasing to the top in terms of number and rate among the designated large cities in Japan.

The number of members who belong to the branch has also increased along with the city’s development. Now we have over 200 members and they handle a wide variety of duties.

In order to adjust ourselves to new service demands, we organize various trainings for our members to develop their abilities.

Furthermore, the Fukuoka-Chuo Branch is engaged in many programs by collaborating with external organizations.

In our original administrative service fields, we dispatch our Gyoseishoshi members to Startup Café Fukuoka City as consultants and support One-Stop Center for starting a business, where entrepreneurs can take all the necessary procedures to establish for incorporation at a single time.

Fukuoka City, which is designated as “a National Strategic Special Zone for Global Startups & Job Creation”, supports startup activities of international companies and entrepreneurs who are trying to operate businesses in Fukuoka.

As our office is located in a commercial area, many of our members have broad experience in business startup procedures or residence permission of foreigners. We would like to cooperate with the city’s activities.

In addition to the above, we collaborate with the Legal Support Center for Small and Medium-sized Businesses of the Fukuoka Law Association, and we try to enhance the quality of our support.

We recently launched a new project, in which we support Oyafuko-dori Shopping Street Cooperative Union (former Oyafuko-dori Shopping Street Shop Owners Association) at the request of Chuo-ward of Fukuoka City. Specifically, we have joined in the cooperative establishment, consultation for co-op members, meetings, and dispatched our professionals to their secretariat to revitalize the shopping street in our community.

As for the COVID-19 pandemic, we work with the Business Grants Application Support Center, which was uniquely established by Fukuoka City as an emergency economic assistance initiative, to help business operators in the city. We send our capable Gyoseishoshi lawyers to the Center as professional consulting supporters. Fukuoka City gives grants for a part (four-fifths) of the fees required as the cost of Gyoseishoshi service for application of such grants. For details, click “For Business Owners suffering from COVID-19” on the main page of our website.

We do not want to be just “a community lawyer”, a traditional catch line for us, but to be even more than that. Therefore, we conduct various activities so that people in our communities feel familiar with us.

For example, we join in the “One-Citizen-One-Flower” project organized by the city, the “Fukuoka Castle/Korokan Festival” jointly organized by Chuo-ward of Fukuoka City (sponsorship as well), and the “Fukuoka City Chuo-ward Flowerbed Creation Initiative”.

In addition to devoting ourselves to Gyoseishoshi duties as individuals, we aim to grow with communities to be “a community infrastructure” as a team through Fukuoka City/Chuo-ward municipal administrations and to play a role in creating its future.

And we are determined to continue working and growing closer to the people in our communities to support them as much as possible. We really appreciate your understanding and cooperation.