Colin P a Jones

Colin Jones is from various places, but mostly Canada. He first went to Japan in 1983 as a student at International Christian University in Tokyo. From there he transferred to U.C. Berkeley, graduating in 1986 with a degree in East Asian Languages and Literature. After obtaining a master's degree in political history from Tohoku University's Graduate Faculty of Law, he attended Duke Law school where he was a Richard Nixon Fellow and graduated in 1993 with both a J.D. and an LL.M. in...See more

Colin Jones is from various places, but mostly Canada. He first went to Japan in 1983 as a student at International Christian University in Tokyo. From there he transferred to U.C. Berkeley, graduating in 1986 with a degree in East Asian Languages and Literature. After obtaining a master's degree in political history from Tohoku University's Graduate Faculty of Law, he attended Duke Law school where he was a Richard Nixon Fellow and graduated in 1993 with both a J.D. and an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law. After seven years doing finance and securities transactions for a large law firm in New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo, he bet his future on the First Internet Bubble, moving in-house to a position at the telecommunications firm Asia Global Crossing, which obligingly went bankrupt a few years later. In 2005 he became a professor at Doshisha Law School and continues to practice as a business lawyer while also sitting on corporate boards. He has written extensively on a wide range of subjects with a particular focus on Japanese law. In addition to his long-running column in The Japan Times, he has written four books in Japanese, as well as being lead author on the 2018 treatise, The Japanese Legal System (West Academic), See less