The vital factors which can facilitate the development of startups and SMEs in markets are appropriate regulatory and policy frameworks. However, there are differences in the frameworks that may contribute to different levels of development in startups and SMEs in Japan, the Republic of Korea,...

Japan experienced falling asset prices, financial market reform, and non-performing loan reductions from the late 1990s. We examine whether it was appropriate to guide the banking sector to aggressively write off non-performing loans in the early 2000s under the shadow of regulatory reform and...

This paper analyzes the causes, responses, and consequences of the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident (March 2011) by comparing these with Three Mile Island (March 1979) and Chernobyl (April 1986). We identify three generic modes of organizational coordination: modular, vertical, and...

In many ways, the current financial distress in Japan traces itself to the limited range of non-bank financial intermediaries available. That limited availability is itself a creature of regulation. By examining the recent deregulation of commercial paper issues by financial intermediaries, we...

The purpose of this article is to provide clarification to corporate environmental managers and/or legal counsel of multinational companies on current and emerging product-related regulatory developments in China, Japan and Korea. Specific pending and proposed product-related environmental...

New Zealand lawyers are dealing increasingly with Japan, and with its big corporations. This article discusses points of interest which arise, e.g. Cross-cultural overview, the status of the merchant, the development and use of law, Japanese strength of tradition and how Japan and its business...

As in many other countries, the Japanese government has been keen on both inviting foreign direct investment into the domestic market and protecting against the threat to the public interest that could be caused by foreign ownership. As compared with the discussions in Europe and the US, the...

Have China, Japan and Korea achieved their policy goals in an effective and efficient manner by introducing its own WEEE and RoHS regulations? While the three countries enacted RoHS- and WEEE-like regulations which are comparable to the EU RoHS (2002/95/EC) and WEEE (2002/96/EC) in the middle of...

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 38-meter tsunami destroyed Tokyo Electric's Fukushima nuclear power complex. The disaster was not a high-damage, low-probability event. It was a high-damage, high-probability event. Massive earthquakes and tsunami assault the coast every...

Economists have dominated U.S. scholarship about the S&L debacle and they have universally viewed the regulatory response as horrific. This paper argues that the conventional economic wisdom is badly flawed. The U.S. regulatory response to the debacle was disastrous – when economists shaped it...