This is the presentation slide on the main points of New Japan's Corporate Governance Code (2021 Revision). It consists of the description on the background, transition, and scrutiny of the Code and scrutiny from the from the Perspective of 'Sustainable Growth of the Company and Improvement of...

Understanding of the entire picture of the share ownership structure of listed companies in each country in general will provide an important perspective for analyzing the present takeover rules in that country, and also for considering appropriate regimes for takeover rules for the future. This...

This paper presents a solution for Japanese Companies Act and comparative law analysis on hypothetical case regarding “abuse of shareholder rights”. It is based on “Mathias Siems and David Cabrelli (eds), Comparative Company Law - A Case-Based Approach, 2nd edition (Oxford, Hart...

Trust Act 2006 was the first full-fledged revision in 84 years since the enactment of the Former Trust Act, with no significant revision having been made during this period. This revision scaled up the Former Trust Act, which contained 75 Articles, into the one with as many as 271 Articles...

(※under revision)This paper describes the history of the academic theories on Trusts in Japan, focusing on how the theories have understood the fundamental construction of Trust.Ever since the enactment of the former Trust Act, the characteristics and essential elements of the act of creating...

This paper intends to scrutinize the Japan’s Corporate Governance Code from the perspective of its subtitle “sustainable growth of the company and improvement of medium- to long-term corporate value.” The first half of the paper focuses on the significance of this Code and related issues...

This is a transcript of an interview with Professor Kenneth Reid on the issues related to “Principles of European Trust law and Draft Directive on ‘Protective Funds'” – , held in August 2010 in Professor Reid's office at the University of Edinburgh. Professor Reid is an authority on...