Atsushi Shiraki is an Associate Professor at Waseda University Law School and Counsel at Kollect Partners in Tokyo, where his practice focuses exclusively on cross-border divorce and family law disputes between the United States and Japan, including matters arising under the Hague Convention, international discovery under 28 U.S.C. § 1782, and the enforceability of prenuptial agreements. His commentary on cross-border family and human rights matters has been featured by The Guardian, the BBC, Bloomberg, Nikkei, and other outlets. He is admitted to practice in Japan, New York, and Maryland. Shiraki holds an S.J.D. from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, William S. Richardson School of Law, as well as an LL.M. from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (Fulbright Scholar) and a J.D. and B.A. from Waseda University. He has authored more than 40 publications in English and Japanese on transnational civil procedure and family law, serves on the Board of Trustees of the Human Rights Watch Tokyo Office, and previously held a Visiting Scholar appointment at Columbia Law School. He is also a fellow at the United States-Japan Foundation.