Our law firm Sonderhoff & Einsel Law and Patent Office was founded on the principle of multiculturalism and has practiced it for over the past 100 years. This has become part of our DNA as a firm.
In order to facilitate an education founded on the principles of multiculturalism within Japan, our firm’s managing partner Felix-Reinhard Einsel founded HEINESSEN Multicultural Support Foundation in the summer of this year. HEINESSEN Foundation’s goal is to make multiculturalism a reality in the education of future lawyers and patent attorneys in Japan. It aims at students aspiring to bridge the cultures of Europe and Japan in this line of work and wants to aid in mitigating the financial burden of getting such an education in Japan.
Besides colleagues of our firm acting pro bono for the Foundation, the Foundation has been privileged to add a diverse range of directors who are all committed to the idea of multiculturalism and its role in preserving peace, democracy, and the rule of law. They are:
- Professor Toshiko Takenaka, Ph.D., LL.M. (Washington Research Foundation Simpson Professor of Law, University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A.)
- Professor Dr. Andreas Fuchs, LL.M. (Professor for Civil, Commercial, Economic and Comparative Law, University of Osnabrueck, Germany)
- Mr. Carl Mirwald (Director of Montessori Technical School Munich, Germany)
- Dr. Thomas Nagano (Physician, Tokyo International Clinic, Japan)
- Mr. Naoki Watanabe (Japanese Attorney-at-law, Sonderhoff & Einsel, Tokyo, Japan)
- Dr. Shigeo Yamaguchi (German Attorney-at-law, ARQIS, Duesseldorf, Germany)
I, as a German attorney-at-law registered in Japan as Foreign Law Attorney (Sonderhoff & Einsel), am honored to act as Representative Director of the Foundation.
We would like to bring to your kind attention that Heinessen Foundation has begun accepting applications from high school students for a grant ranging from 50.000 JPY to 100.000 JPY/month (depending on the applicant’s economic circumstances). The current application deadline is October 31st. The requirements for application can be found online, and entries can be made directly via the foundation’s website:
https://www.heinessen-foundation.org
In the coming year, HEINESSEN will also begin granting two scholarships for college students.
We would like to point out that applications are open to all students with a background that demonstrates a multicultural und multilingual involvement with one or more European countries (not limited to EU countries) who wish to study and graduate in Japan in order to become attorney-at-laws or patent attorneys, regardless of their nationality.
Tokyo, September 2022
Robert Rauther
Representative Director
HEINESSEN Multicultural Support Foundation, Tokyo
⼀般財団法⼈ ハイネセン多⽂化⽀援財団
