To learn about the concept of the National Autopsy Network (NATON), a delegation of legal medicine specialists from six different institutes in Japan traveled to Germany for a three-day workshop. Following presentations by NATON coordinator Prof. Dr. Benjamin Ondruschka and NATON project manager Dr. Kristina Allgoewer, we engaged in discussions at the Institute of Legal Medicine at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf with Prof. Dr. Toshikazu Kondo (Wakayama Medical University), Prof. Dr. Kazuya Ikematsu (Nagasaki University), Prof. Dr. Yoshiro Koda (Kurume University), Prof. Dr. Yosuke Usumoto (Kyushu University), Prof. Dr. Koichi Tsuneyama (Tokushima University), and Prof. Dr. Hideto Suzuki (Jichi Medical University) about future collaboration opportunities on NATON-related issues and the implementation of an autopsy network in Japan.