"Toban Bengoshi" (Lawyer on Duty)
If you need a lawyer during the pre-indictment period, you can ask the police to contact one of the following numbers for a 'lawyer on duty'.
A lawyer on duty will visit you at your request as soon as he/she can. This initial service is free of charge. If you decide to hire him/her, you will be charged for subsequent services.
Please visit the Japan Federation of Bar Associations website for Japan's Duty Attorney System and the list of Duty Attorney Contact.
- Tokyo 03-3580-0082
- Yokohama 045-212-0010
- Saitama 048-866-9845
- Saitama (Kawagoe) 049-226-3972
- Saitama (Kumagaya) 048-521-0844
- Chiba 043-221-7330
- Yamagata 0236-22-2234
- Fukushima 0245-34-2334
- Gunma 0272-35-6900
- Tochigi 0286-43-1234
- Ibaraki 029-228-9800
- Yamanashi 0552-35-7202
- Niigata 025-222-3765
- Nagano 0262-32-3658
- Shizuoka 054-252-0008
- Shizuoka (Hamamatsu) 053-455-3009
- Shizuoka (Numazu) 0559-31-1848