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Extinguishing Security Interests: Secured Claims In Japanese Reorganization Law And Some Policy Implications To The U.S. Law, Wataru Tanaka
Extinguishing Security Interests: Secured Claims In Japanese Reorganization Law And Some Policy Implications To The U.S. Law, Wataru Tanaka
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This Article examines how secured claims are treated in Japanese business reorganization law, especially in the Civil Rehabilitation Act (Minji saisei ho), which was enacted in 1999 as the new general reorganization regime in Japan. Unlike the U.S. Bankruptcy Act, the Civil Rehabilitation Act does not have automatic stay on secured claims, nor does it allow any modification of secured claims by the rehabilitation plans. However, the Civil Rehabilitation Act has a unique procedure to restrict the rights of secured creditors, which is called “the procedure of extinguishing security interests (tanpo-ken shometsu seikyu tetsuzuki).” This procedure permits a debtor to …