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Bengo4.com Exclusively Features "6000 Legal Countermeasures for Financial Institutions" by Kinzai Institute for Financial Affairs on its Legal Services

- Available on three services including "Legal Brain Agent" to support practical decision-making using AI -

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LEGAL BRAIN

Mar 11 2026

Bengo4.com, Inc. (Minato-ku, Tokyo; Taichiro Motoe, Representative Director, President and CEO, Lawyer; hereinafter, “the Company”) is pleased to announce that it has begun exclusively featuring "6000 Legal Countermeasures for Financial Institutions" (6 volumes in total) published by the Kinzai Institute for Financial Affairs, Inc. on three of its services: the AI agent specialized in legal affairs, "Legal Brain Agent," and the legal book subscription services, "Bengo4.com LIBRARY" and "BUSINESS LAWYERS LIBRARY."


■About "6000 Legal Countermeasures for Financial Institutions"
Since its first edition was published in 1958, this commentary book has undergone revisions for over half a century and can be considered the culmination of financial practice. In addition to traditional points of issue such as deposits, loans, exchange, and bills/checks, it comprehensively covers all legal issues in financial business, including themes of growing importance in modern financial practice such as SDGs, ESG, and land with unknown owners. The massive Q&A spanning 8,700 pages across 6 volumes is widely utilized not only by bank personnel of financial institutions but also by lawyers involved in financial legal affairs as the "most reliable definitive book on financial practice."
By featuring the Institute's symbolic work, "6000 Legal Countermeasures for Financial Institutions," on our legal research platforms, we will continue to support the further streamlining of increasingly complex financial legal research.




Benefits of Utilizing Legal Brain Agent
1. Quick access to "6000 Legal Countermeasures for Financial Institutions" through natural language 
The precise knowledge covering 6,000 items across all 6 volumes of "6000 Legal Countermeasures for Financial Institutions" will be added to the research foundation of the AI agent. Even for points of issue that require a wide range of practical judgments, such as handling a depositor's death or complex offset processing, the AI will support the organization of issues based on the book's commentary, enabling users to quickly establish the "pillars of consideration" before diving into detailed research.

2. Providing accurate and verifiable answers through source indication 
In financial practice, which demands high accuracy, AI answers with unclear grounds entail risks. "Legal Brain Agent" thoroughly ensures that the sources underlying its generated texts are explicitly stated, displaying reference source information with links as a bibliography. Users can instantly verify primary information, supporting secure research that eliminates the risk of hallucination.

3. "Cross-sectional research" of practical books, laws/regulations, judicial precedents, and guidelines 
In addition to the knowledge from "6000 Legal Countermeasures for Financial Institutions," which is a bible for practice, users can conduct cross-sectional research that combines the latest laws and regulations, judicial precedents, and Financial Services Agency (FSA) guidelines learned by the AI agent. While basing its answers on the book's commentary, the AI supplements and presents related "revisions to FSA guidelines" and "recent similar judicial precedents," enabling more sophisticated consideration in the rapidly changing field of financial legal affairs.




About Kinzai Institute for Financial Affairs, Inc.
Founded in 1950, it is a "Financial Knowledge Solution Firm" established for the purpose of collecting and disseminating information on financial and fiscal policies and financial institution management, conducting research and studies, and popularizing and enlightening economic and financial knowledge. Under a system where former executives of the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Japan, heads of financial organizations, and academic experts serve as directors, the Institute promotes activities based on high expertise and advanced insights.
The Institute engages in diversified businesses, including the publication of periodicals that serve as guidelines for financial practice, such as KINZAI Weekly and Financial Law Affairs, the publication of practical books, the implementation of FP (Financial Planner) skill certification examinations (national qualification), and research and studies on finance and public finance. It is an institution that has continued to play a crucial role in the development of Japan's financial economy and legal practice for over half a century.




■ About Legal Brain Agent

Legal Brain Agent is an AI agent specialized in legal affairs that is equipped with the Legal Brain legal-specialized AI platform developed exclusively by the Company. It understands the user’s research intention through natural language input, clearly indicates links to the sources (*1) that are used to produce the answer, automatically extracts legal issues, and presents them in an easy-to-understand bullet-points format. It considerably reduces complex, time-consuming, and labor-intensive research tasks, helping to create an environment where lawyers, legal staff, and other professionals can concentrate on more value-added work.
*1: Relevant laws and regulations, precedents, technical books, guidelines, etc.
URL of the website for the service: https://legalbrain.com/

■About Bengo4.com LIBRARY and BUSINESS LAWYERS LIBRARY
These are legal research services that allow users to search and view approximately 4,200 legal books and magazines (as of February 2026) using keywords or AI-powered natural language processing. By saving the trouble of searching for information among a vast amount of paper legal books, they can streamline practical work for lawyers and corporate legal affairs, such as considering policies for case processing and drafting documents.

Bengo4.com LIBRARY:https://library.bengo4.com/about
BUSINESS LAWYERS LIBRARY:https://services.businesslawyers.jp/lib/about/

Contact for inquiries

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TEL +81-3-5549-2555 E-Mail info-press@bengo4.com