About Us

Support shaped around what you actually need.
Please talk to us once, even if your circumstances are complicated.

Working around each person’s circumstances

Chunichi Houmu Gyoseishoshi Office is a Gyoseishoshi practice based in Nishi-ku, Nagoya. We handle the procedures that arise at turning points in life and in business: applications for a Status of Residence or naturalization, company formation, grave closures, wills and estate division agreements.

The circumstances behind a procedure differ from person to person. Even for the same procedure, how someone arrived there, and how urgent it is, vary a great deal.

Drawing on what we have learned over the years, we place importance on proposing a solution suited to each person’s situation. We have taken on cases from people whose own applications were refused, and from people other offices turned away. Please do not carry it alone; start by telling us about it.

Our guiding principle

Coexistence — a society in which people of many nationalities, ethnicities and cultures respect one another and live together

We arrived at this principle through years of advising foreign residents living in Nagoya. For those who feel uneasy about communicating in Japanese, this site is available in nine languages, including Japanese. Enquiries are handled in Japanese and Chinese; in any other language you are welcome to come with family or friends.

The person in charge

Akihiro Iwata, Certified Gyoseishoshi (Tokutei Gyoseishoshi)
いわた あきひろ

I run the Chunichi Houmu Gyoseishoshi Office in Nishi-ku, Nagoya. My principle is to give each client sincere support.

Career

1. March 1984Graduated from the Faculty of Law, Kwansei Gakuin University
2. April 1984Joined a consumer credit company (left in February 2021)
3. April 2016Registered as a gyoseishoshi and opened the Iwata Gyoseishoshi Office
4. December 2018Renamed the office Chunichi Houmu Gyoseishoshi Office and moved to Naka-ku, Nagoya
5. March 2025Moved to Nishi-ku, Nagoya

Office details

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