Japan's lawyers are disproportionately concentrated in Tokyo, leaving 39 district court jurisdictions out of 253 nationwide with no practicing lawyers, according to a report issued Monday by the Japan Federation of Bar Associations.
Aomori Prefecture has 24 times more residents per lawyer than Tokyo, says the report, submitted to the Judicial Reform Council, which was created in 1999 under then Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi's Cabinet.
Aomori has 36,950 residents per practicing lawyer, while Tokyo, where half of Japan's 17,000 lawyers practice, has 1,532 people per attorney. Aomori has the largest number per lawyer and Tokyo has the least, according to the report.