{"id":9817,"date":"2025-12-15T15:23:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T06:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/en\/?p=9817"},"modified":"2025-12-15T15:23:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T06:23:47","slug":"pbv-begins-pro-bono-partnership-with-nishimura-asahi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/en\/news\/pbv-begins-pro-bono-partnership-with-nishimura-asahi\/","title":{"rendered":"PBV Begins Pro Bono Partnership with Nishimura &amp; Asahi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Peace Boat Disaster Relief (PBV) is pleased to announce a new pro bono partnership with <em>Nishimura &amp; Asahi<\/em>, one of Japan\u2019s leading law firms. Since October 2025, the firm has been supporting PBV by providing legal expertise to strengthen our organizational activities and enhance our ability to serve communities affected by disasters in Japan and around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nishimura &amp; Asahi released a press statement introducing the partnership and highlighting the team involved in supporting PBV\u2019s work. Their pro bono services contribute to PBV\u2019s mission of assisting disaster-affected people and promoting community resilience through practical, people-centered disaster risk reduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are deeply grateful for their commitment to public interest activities and for sharing their professional skills to help advance a safer, more resilient society. Collaborations like this enable PBV to continue improving its programs, outreach, and operational capacity\u2014ultimately benefiting the individuals and communities we serve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nishimura.com\/en\/news\/20251208-117276\">HERE<\/a> is the original press release from Nishimura &amp; Asahi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/wp_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/b1b1219bb7d5f5ca64540aa1337ffb3c-e1764913958694.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"358\" src=\"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/wp_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/b1b1219bb7d5f5ca64540aa1337ffb3c-e1764913958694-1024x358.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/wp_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/b1b1219bb7d5f5ca64540aa1337ffb3c-e1764913958694-1024x358.png 1024w, https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/wp_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/b1b1219bb7d5f5ca64540aa1337ffb3c-e1764913958694-300x105.png 300w, https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/wp_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/b1b1219bb7d5f5ca64540aa1337ffb3c-e1764913958694-768x269.png 768w, https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/wp_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/b1b1219bb7d5f5ca64540aa1337ffb3c-e1764913958694.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peace Boat Disaster Relief (PBV) is pleased to announce a new pro bono partnership with Nishimura &amp; Asahi, one of Japan\u2019s leading law firms. Since October 2025, the firm has been supporting PBV by providing legal expertise to strengthen our organizational activities and enhance our ability to serve communities affected by disasters in Japan and around the world. Nishimura &amp; Asahi released a press statement introducing the partnership and highlighting the team involved in supporting PBV\u2019s work. Their pro bono services contribute to PBV\u2019s mission of assisting disaster-affected people and promoting community resilience through practical, people-centered disaster risk reduction. We are deeply grateful for their commitment to public interest activities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[438,319,439],"class_list":["post-9817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-partnership","tag-pbv","tag-probono"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9820,"href":"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9817\/revisions\/9820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}