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My name is Keiko Mori, and I have opened a new Immigration Lawyer office in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo.
My office is located just a 4-minute walk from Kanamachi Station on the JR Joban Line, in an area that still retains the warm, friendly atmosphere of old downtown Tokyo.
I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself.
I am originally from Fujisawa City in Kanagawa Prefecture, and as I lived by the sea, there were various inconveniences in my daily life, such as the rusting of my car due to the sea breeze and the creaking of my piano, but as a child, the sea at Shonan was a part of my life.
When I was in high school, I commuted to Kamakura High School, which became famous overnight thanks to the basketball manga “Slam Dunk”, and I sweated it out in the track and field club. Nowadays, it seems that many tourists visit the school as a “holy place” for “Slam Dunk”, but at the time, in order to catch the Enoden train, which only ran five times an hour, I would run alongside the train as it passed by and rush to the station to catch it. Looking back now, I feel that those days were like a treasure that could not be replaced by anything else, when I would sit on the schoolyard steps after club activities and take a breather while enjoying the view of the “sunset, Enoshima, the Shonan coast and Mt. Fuji” all at once. Incidentally, I specialize in short-distance running, and I took part in the Kanto Regional Games in the 4x100m relay, but I’m terrible at middle- and long-distance running. So I really admire people who can keep running briskly in places like the Imperial Palace Run.
When I went to university, I chose the national and public humanities course, but I chose the easy way out and went to Toyo Eiwa Junior College on a designated school recommendation, where I spent three years studying English. Naturally, I was a little confused at first when I entered an environment where there were only girls, but I was able to study things that interested me, such as English phonetics, so it was a fun three years (two years in the English Department and one year in the English Major).
After graduating from junior college, I joined a system-related subsidiary of a non-life insurance company as a new graduate. I had never even touched a computer before, so I was a complete novice, but after joining the company I went through three months of intensive new-employee training, and then I worked as a programmer and then as a system engineer, building and operating systems for automobile insurance. I think it was a happy experience to be able to work so hard and enjoy it at the same time.
I moved to Katsushika Ward when I got married, and I resigned because my workplace was too far away. After that, I worked as a temporary employee at a life insurance company affiliated with the company I used to work for. After having my children, I enjoyed being a full-time housewife for a while, but as soon as my younger child started kindergarten, I decided to take the administrative scrivener exam because I had too much free time on my hands. Why did I choose to become an administrative scrivener? In a world where lifetime employment is becoming less common, I wanted to try a different path to that of a company employee, and I was also simply interested in the law. The first time I took the exam, my younger child had a high fever in the week before the exam and I spent all my time looking after him, so instead of cramming for the exam, I ended up releasing all my knowledge and I failed miserably. Just as I was feeling my fate after finding out I had failed the exam, I was contacted by the life insurance company I had worked for before and asked to come back, so I took a break from studying for a while, but when remote working became possible due to the coronavirus pandemic, I resumed my studies, making use of the time I had freed up by not commuting to work, and I passed the 2023 exam and here I am today.
After passing the exam, I was really worried about what I should specialize in among the wide range of administrative scrivener duties. I thought, “Even though I’ve studied English, I’ve almost forgotten it, and even though I want to support foreign people, will my weak English skills be okay…? However, I thought that if I didn’t do what I wanted to do and gave up, I would regret it, so I made up my mind to do what I could to support people in obtaining resident status and so on. As a specialist Immigration Lawyer who supports foreigners, I would like to make my office a place where you can feel free to consult with me about applications for permission to stay, changes, renewals, management, permanent residence, naturalization, etc. Please feel free to contact me.
Mori Immigration Lawyer Office, Keiko Mori
