Practice Areas
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Mr. Toyama’s main areas of business are finance (including the Currency Act and the Trust Law) and legal areas related to corporate governance. However, he constantly pays attention to financial and economic trends as well as financial regulatory trends both in Japan and abroad, and also engages in advisory activities for risk management and compliance of financial institutions. In the past, he strived to establish the Financial Law Board and in addition, served as a lecturer on financial regulations and the central bank law at the Hokkaido University Graduate School, the University Tokyo Graduate School of Public Policy, etc. He has also served as Alternate Executive Director for Japan of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as well as a member of the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems and of the Market Committee of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
Career Summary
- March 1959
- Born in Tokyo, Japan
- March 1977
- Graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Aoyama High School
- March 1982
- Received his LL.B. from the University of Tokyo
- April 1982
- Joined the Bank of Japan
- May 1988
- Received his LL.M. from School of Law, University of California
- May 1989
- Received his LL.M. on the International Banking Act from Boston University School of Law
- August 1988 - June 1989
- Joined Harvard Law School as a visiting researcher
- July 1989 - June 1990
- Worked for Legal Division, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve Board)
- January 2000
- Appointed as Alternate Executive Director for Japan of the International Monetary Fund
- May 2003
- Served as Head of Global Economic Research Division, International Department, Bank of Japan
- August 2004
- Served as General Manager of Bank of Japan Okayama Branch
- July 2006
- Served as Deputy Director-General, Payment and Settlement Systems Department, Bank of Japan
- March 2009
- Served as Director General, Financial Markets Department, Bank of Japan
- May 2001
- Served as General Manager for Americas, Bank of Japan (stationed in New York)
- November 2012
- Served as Director General, International Department, Bank of Japan
- September 2014
- Appointed as Executive Advisor of Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited (currently in office)
- March 2015
- Registered as a Japanese attorney
- June 2015 - June 2023
- Appointed as Outside Director of Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
- January 2019
- Joined Iwata Godo
- March 2021
- Appointed as Director of HORIBA, Ltd. (currently in office)
List of Main Publications
”Clearing Legislations for Multinational Enterprises”（co-author, a part of the “Enterprise Law Studies“, Japan Institute of Business Law, 1993）
”Liberalization of Financial Services in NAFTA”（a part of ”Kokusai Shoji Homu No.3”, THE JAPANESE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LAW, INC., 1994）
”Legal Issues concerning the European Currency Union”（round-table discussion, December 15, 1997 issue of Kinyu Homu Jijo.）
”The Monetary, regulatory and competitive implications of the restructuring of the Japanese banking industry ”（Bank for International Settlements 1999）