Talk to members of Tokyo’s international legal community these days, and you hear a common refrain: Life is elsewhere.

“We’re a backwater now,” says David Sneider, head of the Tokyo office for Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. “It’s really China that’s the story. In terms of actual, fee-paying, high-quality work, firms are really focused on China now.”

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