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Taking National Security Seriously: Navigating Japan’S Expanded Restrictions On Global Trade And Investment, C.D.A. Evans, Aviel Menter May 2023

Taking National Security Seriously: Navigating Japan’S Expanded Restrictions On Global Trade And Investment, C.D.A. Evans, Aviel Menter

The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law

This paper explores recent changes to Japan’s national security restrictions on the foreign acquisition of Japanese companies and other financial assets. Commentators have often incorrectly characterized these developments as driven by economic or diplomatic considerations. In fact, a different set of concerns has motivated Japan’s policy shift: national security. Due to the critical security relationship between Japan and the United States, Japanese macroeconomic policy often changes in response to American politics. Recently, changes in the Trump Administration’s approach to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) have caused corresponding changes in how Japan regulates international business transactions. …


Penyelesaian Sengketa Sengketa Pulau Dokdo Antara Jepang Dan Korea Selatan Secara Damai, Utami Gita Syafitri Dec 2022

Penyelesaian Sengketa Sengketa Pulau Dokdo Antara Jepang Dan Korea Selatan Secara Damai, Utami Gita Syafitri

"Dharmasisya” Jurnal Program Magister Hukum FHUI

The Dokdo Island dispute is a territorial dispute involving Japan and South Korea in the dispute over the island located in the Sea of Japan. The governments of Japan and South Korea base their claims of ownership of Dokdo Island on historical evidence and geographical connectivity. The Dokdo Island dispute hampered the process of negotiating the maritime zone delimitation in the Sea of Japan. The Dokdo Island dispute needs to be resolved immediately by establishing the maritime zone boundaries of Japan and South Korea, as well as providing legal certainty over the ownership status of Dokdo Island. The sovereignty claim …


Trademark Use Doctrine In The European Union And Japan, Martin Husovec Jan 2017

Trademark Use Doctrine In The European Union And Japan, Martin Husovec

Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review

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International Trade In Services From The Japanese Viewpoint, Masato Dogauchi Dec 2014

International Trade In Services From The Japanese Viewpoint, Masato Dogauchi

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


Japanese Fair Trade Commission Guidelines For Licensing Agreements: An Overview And A Critique, Bradley J. Nicholson Nov 2014

Japanese Fair Trade Commission Guidelines For Licensing Agreements: An Overview And A Critique, Bradley J. Nicholson

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


Trends. International Trade And The Subversion Of Justice: Japan, The European Union, And Iraq, Ibpp Editor Dec 1997

Trends. International Trade And The Subversion Of Justice: Japan, The European Union, And Iraq, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the moral philosophy, the psychology of moral judgment, and treatises on law often suggest that justice subsumes some combination of behavioral and intentional accountability and equity.


The New Law Of Asset Securitization In Japan, Michael T. Kawachi Jan 1994

The New Law Of Asset Securitization In Japan, Michael T. Kawachi

Seattle University Law Review

This Article discusses one financial product developed in the United States and expected to develop in Japan as a result of recent legislation adopted there. The Article examines the high degree of regulation of this new financial product under that legislation and concludes that such regulation, while common in Japan, will delay the full development of the market in Japan. This Article begins with a description of an important financial tool first developed in the United States, the securitization of financial assets. The Article next examines several aspects of the new Japanese legislation and reviews the provisions of that legislation. …


Latin American Trade Relations With Japan: New Opportunities In The 1990s?, Barbara Stallings Jul 1991

Latin American Trade Relations With Japan: New Opportunities In The 1990s?, Barbara Stallings

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


Latin American Trade Relations With Japan: New Opportunities In The 1990s?, Barbara Stallings Jul 1991

Latin American Trade Relations With Japan: New Opportunities In The 1990s?, Barbara Stallings

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.


U.S. Trade Policy Toward The New Nics Of Southeast Asia, Linda Y.C. Lim Jan 1990

U.S. Trade Policy Toward The New Nics Of Southeast Asia, Linda Y.C. Lim

Michigan Journal of International Law

As export and economic growth in Korea and Taiwan has slowed since 1988, it has increased dramatically in several countries of Southeast Asia. Thailand, for one, is chalking up a second year of eleven percent real GDP growth in 1989 to become the fastest-growing economy in the world. Malaysia and even the Philippines are not far behind, with growth predicted to reach the six to eight percent range for the second or third year in a row. Even Indonesia's growth is rising above five percent for the first time since the oil price slump of the early 1980s. Manufactures now …


The Structural Impediments Initiative: An Example Of Bilateral Trade Negotiation, Mitsuo Matsushita Jan 1990

The Structural Impediments Initiative: An Example Of Bilateral Trade Negotiation, Mitsuo Matsushita

Michigan Journal of International Law

In June 1990, the governments of the United States and Japan concluded the Structural Impediments Initiative ("SII"), a series of bilateral trade negotiations. The SII came about as a result of a large trade imbalance between the two countries in favor of Japan, which, despite many efforts, the United States and Japan had been unable to reduce. It was the U.S. government's perception that the real cause of the trade imbalance was not Japan's protective border measures in the form of tariffs or quantitative restrictions, such as import quotas on agricultural and leather products, but rather the oligopolistic industrial sector …


Japan, Sii And The International Harmonization Of Domestic Economic Practices, Gary R. Saxonhouse Jan 1990

Japan, Sii And The International Harmonization Of Domestic Economic Practices, Gary R. Saxonhouse

Michigan Journal of International Law

The Structural Impediments Initiative ("SII") discussions, the first stage of which concluded with a report on June 28 of last year, have been heralded as a new departure in international economic relations. Instead of talking about the removal of barriers at national borders, the United States and Japan have been discussing the relationship between international trade, international payments balances and domestic economic institutions. Trade negotiators have been exploring whether the harmonization of domestic economic institutions can allow for more intimate as well as more balanced economic relations between the United States and Japan. Concern with the international harmonization of institutions …


The Administrative Regulation Of Technology Induction Contracts In Japan, K. Blake Thatcher Jan 1987

The Administrative Regulation Of Technology Induction Contracts In Japan, K. Blake Thatcher

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

The purpose of this Comment is to investigate the current effect of both the FECL and the AML on TICs.'6 It begins with a historical analysis of past applications of these laws to TICs. It then discusses the current terms of the AML and the FECL, the government's application of these terms to TICs, and the effect of this application on the formation of TICs. This Comment concludes that, although the means of regulation has changed and there has been some liberalization, the FECL and the AML continue to create substantial prejudicial effects for the interests of foreign parties to …


Japanese View Of United States Trade Laws, A , Mitsuo Matsushita Jan 1987

Japanese View Of United States Trade Laws, A , Mitsuo Matsushita

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

The purpose of this Article is to present a Japanese view of United States trade laws, concentrating on the differences between the United States and the Japanese laws. This Article will address the questions of whether United States trade laws have been used for protectionist purposes and whether there are inconsistencies and conflicts within United States trade laws. Finally, this Article will discuss Japanese suggestions for the enforcement of United States trade laws. The views expressed here are neither those of the Japanese business community nor those of the Japanese government; they are solely the views of the author, who …


Trade Friction With Japan And The American Policy Response, Thomas J. Schoenbaum May 1984

Trade Friction With Japan And The American Policy Response, Thomas J. Schoenbaum

Michigan Law Review

In Toyko recently I called upon an official of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) to discuss trade frictions between the United States and Japan. On the way to my appointment I passed by Hibiya Park in the center of the city. About 10,000 people were gathered in a peaceful demonstration against any lifting of Japan's quotas on imports of agricultural products. Inside the MIT! building I asked the official whether the quotas on beef and oranges would be abolished soon. He told me they would eventually be liberalized or abolished to please the United States, but that …


Industrial Policy: Diverting Resources From The Winners, Edwin L. Harper, Lehmann K. Li Jr. Jan 1984

Industrial Policy: Diverting Resources From The Winners, Edwin L. Harper, Lehmann K. Li Jr.

Michigan Journal of International Law

This article argues that the various forms of industrial policy currently being proposed are inappropriate for the United States (U.S.). They would fail not only on economic grounds, but on political grounds as well. The article outlines the appropriate role for government in the economy.


Building The Case For Industrial Strategy, David E, Bonior Jan 1984

Building The Case For Industrial Strategy, David E, Bonior

Michigan Journal of International Law

The argument for an industrial strategy begins with the failures of present policies. The indictment is not concerned with the relative simplicity or elegance of competing economic theories but with actual results in the world marketplace. The case for an industrial strategy is not primarily about compassion, or about full employment, or even about economic growth. While we desperately need a compassionate economic policy, full employment, and sustained economic growth, these are goals. The industrial policy debate is not a debate about goals, but means. The argument rests on the premise that the old means must be changed because the …


Private Leased Telecommunication Lines: Threats To Continued International Availabliltiy, Jill L. Martin Jan 1984

Private Leased Telecommunication Lines: Threats To Continued International Availabliltiy, Jill L. Martin

Michigan Journal of International Law

This article examines both actual and proposed actions by Japanese and European telecommunications authorities, known as Ministries of Post, Telephone, and Telegraph (PTTs), to restrict private leased line availability, and then explores the possibility that these actions presage the total elimination of private leased lines. It concludes that unless the United States government adopts a unified and reasonable policy opposing the escalation of regulations and restrictions, their deleterious effects will become more severe.


A Labor View Of Industrial Policy, Henry B. Schechter Jan 1984

A Labor View Of Industrial Policy, Henry B. Schechter

Michigan Journal of International Law

This article discusses the following topics: secular economic decline, factors in the loss of U.S. competitive position, foreign industrial policies, a labor-endorsed legislative proposal for an industrial policy, and supplementary measures that are required for a successful industrial policy.


Whither The Future Of Japanese Industrial Development Policies?, Merit E. Janow Jan 1984

Whither The Future Of Japanese Industrial Development Policies?, Merit E. Janow

Michigan Journal of International Law

This article describes past and present Japanese industrial policies. After discussing the evolution of Japanese industrial policies generally, it addresses the specific instruments of those policies including those intended to assist declining industries as well as those intended to promote the development of new industries. Finally, this article suggests that government guidance of Japan's industrial sector has decreased and is likely to decrease further still in the future.


The Role Of The Federal Government In Worker Adjustment Assistance, Linda Elliott Jan 1984

The Role Of The Federal Government In Worker Adjustment Assistance, Linda Elliott

Michigan Journal of International Law

Part I of this note examines worker adjustment assistance in the United States. It traces TAA's evolution from its inception as a means of compensating trade-displaced workers while minimizing government intervention in the market adjustment process, through its amendment to reflect congressional concern over the low number of worker certifications, to the criticism of its procedures arising out of more recent congressional interest in government-sponsored retraining as a means of attaining worker adjustment. After arguing that current certification and distribution procedures continue to reflect the original goal of the program- compensation with minimal intervention in the market- the note examines …


An Overview Of The Japanese Legal System, Elliott J. Hahn Jan 1983

An Overview Of The Japanese Legal System, Elliott J. Hahn

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

Trade between the United States and Japan is growing at such a rapid pace that it is incumbent on those involved in private international law to be well-versed in the Japanese legal system. This Article is inteded to be of service to one weeking an overview of that system. The basic lesson for the reader is that the legal system is that the legal system of Japan differs significantly from that of the United States. This difference arises from disparate views of Americans and Japanese as to the fundamental purpose of a legal system. Upon reflection, it is perhaps not …


"Black Ships" And Balance Sheets: The Japanese Market And U.S.-Japan Relations, Kenneth W. Abbott, Conrad D. Totman Jan 1981

"Black Ships" And Balance Sheets: The Japanese Market And U.S.-Japan Relations, Kenneth W. Abbott, Conrad D. Totman

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

In this Article, Professors Abbott and Totman address the widespread Western belief that the Japanese economy is unfairly closed to foreign trade and investment. The authors identify several levels of barriers to penetration of the Japanese market. They contend that considerable progress has been made in reducing direct official restraints and official non-tariff barriers. Further progress in resolving the closed market issue, the authors predict, will be more difficult. Some of the remaining problems are rooted in Japanese society and culture; others in Western attitudes toward Japan. All reflect the historical pattern of Japan's relations with the West. The authors …


Antidumping Law In Japan, Gary Saxonhouse Jan 1979

Antidumping Law In Japan, Gary Saxonhouse

Michigan Journal of International Law

The Japanese antidumping law neither works nor is it practiced. Until very recently, it has been a case of managed economy, with extensive government-business interaction obviating the need to use antidumping laws. While some legislation has been on the books, there's never been an action filed under the available legal framework for antidumping actions.