One of our readers wrote in about the negative experience he had with a lawyer in Japan:
Last year I contacted a lawyer at a foreign resident center in Osaka. My wife had signed a divorce paper and forced me from the house.
The lawyer said he would handle the case until the end for ¥100,000. I went to his office and he copied some papers and called my wife.
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