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The Poison Pill: Still Relevant After All These Years—Even in Japan

4 April 2023

Curtis J. Milhaupt

Zenichi Shishido

The Future of Japanese Corporate Governance: Participation, Sustainability, and Technology

2 January 2023

Joseph Lee

Mizuki Suma

Long Legal Transplants: illustrations from Japanese Corporate Governance

In a recent paper I take a look at how the past twenty years of reform to the rules governing corporate director compensation in Japan can be characterized...

4 March 2022

Sean McGinty

Secured Lending Stimulants: The Role and Effects of Public Credit Guarantees in Japan

Entrepreneurship, market-creating innovations and business growth rely on various support mechanisms, one of which is access to credit. Different measures are taken to facilitate access to credit for businesses. These include...

19 March 2021

Marek Dubovec

Shogo Owada

‘Growth-oriented corporate governance’ and the roles of outside/independent directors in Japan

Japan has reformed its corporate governance system in recent years, with a particular focus on the role of outside/independent directors. Roughly stated, an “outside director” under the Japanese Companies Act...

16 January 2019

Gen Goto

Related Party Transactions in East Asia

2 May 2018

Kon Sik Kim

Hedge Fund Activism in Japan: Why Doesn’t it Work?

Hedge fund activism is essentially a search by funds for investment returns by putting pressure on target firms to change their corporate governance. It began in the USA in...

Yes, You Can Have Too Few Lawyers! A Quasi-Natural Experiment On the Effect of Lawyers, Yakuza and Zombie Firms on the Japanese Economy.

Anti-lawyer sentiment pervades modern popular culture: ‘What do you call a thousand lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean?’ asks the fictional character Andrew Beckett in the 1993...

25 November 2016

Paolo Campana

Ken Okamura

The Poison Pill: Still Relevant After All These Years—Even in Japan

The Future of Japanese Corporate Governance: Participation, Sustainability, and Technology

Long Legal Transplants: illustrations from Japanese Corporate Governance

Secured Lending Stimulants: The Role and Effects of Public Credit Guarantees in Japan

‘Growth-oriented corporate governance’ and the roles of outside/independent directors in Japan

Related Party Transactions in East Asia

Hedge Fund Activism in Japan: Why Doesn’t it Work?

Yes, You Can Have Too Few Lawyers! A Quasi-Natural Experiment On the Effect of Lawyers, Yakuza and Zombie Firms on the Japanese Economy.

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