Journal Article |
Spoiling the Surprise: Constraints Facing Random Regulatory Inspections in Japan and the United States |
A Chin |
1999 |
(abstract not available) |
14 |
Journal Article |
Conflicts of interest between banks and firms: Evidence from Japanese mergers |
HN Higgins Pacific |
2013 |
This paper assesses conflicts of interest between banks and their client firms via the merger transaction by examining the wealth gain of merger acquirers who were listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 1990–2004. The paper reports two main findings. First, acquiring firms did not gain from their acquisitions. Second, acquirers with stronger bank ties experienced larger wealth loss than those with weaker bank ties. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that banks played a conflicted role in mergers during the examination period. |
13 |
Journal Article |
Japan's pattern of rewards for high public office: A cultural perspective |
A Nakamura, K Dairokuno |
2003 |
This chapter aims to use rewards for high public office (RHPOs) as a window for
assessing both the degree and quality of Japan’s democracy in comparative
perspective. It briefly explores both the ‘vertical’ and ‘horizontal’ dimensions of
RHPOs that were identified and discussed in Chapters 1 and 2. That is, it compares rewards at the top with those lower down the income scale and it compares
the rewards of top public officeholders with their private-sector counterparts. |
13 |
Journal Article |
New whistleblower protection laws for Japan |
L Wolff |
2004 |
(abstract not available) |
13 |
Journal Article |
Political Clientelism in Japan: The Case of" S" |
PP Cheng |
1988 |
(abstract not available) |
13 |
Journal Article |
Bid roundness under collusion in Japanese procurement auctions |
R Ishii |
2014 |
We analyze the “roundness level” of bids—defined as the number of zeros at the end of the bid—in public procurement auctions for construction works in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, where a bid-rigging case was filed. We hypothesize that bid rigging increases the roundness of bids through the bid coordination process. Specifically, winners choose round numbers to avoid any miscommunication when they announce their planned bids to other ring members, and losers prefer round numbers when they arbitrarily bid above the winning bid. We find that (1) there is a positive relationship between the roundness of a bid and its relative value as a fraction of the reserve price, (2) the roundness of bids is higher when collusion is active than when it is inactive, (3) among the ring bids, the roundness of the lowest bids is even higher than that of the other bids, and (4) bids by non-ring members are also round when collusion is active. |
13 |
Journal Article |
How Japan is Tackling Enforcement Activities Against Cartels |
A Uesugi |
2004 |
(abstract not available) |
12 |
Journal Article |
Japan's Government Procurement Regimes for Public Works: A Comparative Introduction |
S Kusunoki |
2006 |
(abstract not available) |
12 |
Journal Article |
Political corruption in Japan |
A Rothacher |
2003 |
In international comparisons Japan is not a particularly corrupt country. According to TI’s 2001 Corruption Perceptions Index (where the higher a country’s placement the lower its perceived levels of corruption) among 91 countries Japan was ranked twenty-first, just behind Germany, ahead of France and Belgium, and ahead of the EU’s four southern Member States.1 There is virtually no petty corruption; and apart from among segments of the political and managerial class, moral condemnation of corruption is near universal. Yet at the same time corruption is a structural component of Japan’s power structure. Political contributions — mostly of the illicit sort — are an essential lubricant of co-operative interactions in Japan’s fractious power triangle. Political corruption is endemic in a system run by an oligarchy operating in a gift culture. |
12 |
Journal Article |
Changes in the handling of corruption scandals in Japan since 1994 |
V Blechinger |
1999 |
Over the last fifty years, the Japanese political landscape has been shaken from time to time by the exposure of corruption scandals. In 1993, a multiparty coalition won government in Japan and initiated a package of reform legislation that was passed by the Diet in 1994. The system of legal controls was tightened, penalties for wrongdoing were increased, and the flow of money in politics was made more transparent. However, after more than five years of debate about reform and putting an end to money politics, corruption is still prominent in Japanese politics, and the number of corruption scandals even seems to be growing. Dr. Verena Blechinger of the German Institute for Japanese Studies analyzes how corruption scandals were handled up till 1993, and how this has changed since. She argues that the process of political reform since 1994 has brought about change in the structural framework of the Japanese political system which has caused a shift in relations between the three main political elite groups. |
11 |
Journal Article |
Developments in Insider Trading in Japan |
K Kanzaki |
1982 |
(abstract not available) |
10 |
Journal Article |
Japan tackles insider trading |
M Whitener |
1988 |
(abstract not available) |
10 |
Journal Article |
Japan's efforts in the global fight against money laundering and terrorist financing |
K Kishima |
2004 |
Describes briefly the measures taken by Japan as part of the fight against terrorism; Japan was a founding member of the Financial Action Task Force. Outlines the provisions of the Law for Criminalisation of the Financing of Terrorism, passed in 2002, which criminalises terrorist financing even before commission of a criminal act, and also covers criminal acts outside Japanese jurisdiction. Moves on to the Anti‐Organised Crime law, which now allows seizure of these funds and requires financial institutions to report suspicious transactions; and the Law on Customer Identification and Retention of Records on Transactions with Customers by Financial Institutions, which requires financial institutions to keep customer identification records. Focuses on the performance of the Japanese Financial Intelligence Office (JAFIO) in analysing suspicious transaction reports and passing on relevant information to law enforcement agencies. |
10 |
Journal Article |
Amakudari: The Post‐Retirement Employment of Elite Bureaucrats in Japan |
T Mizoguchi, N Van Quyen |
2012 |
This paper analyzes the amakudari practice in Japan. Amakudari refers to a process in which government agencies contact the private firms that they regulate, asking them to provide employment for their retiring elite bureaucrats. Upon employment at the private firms, bureaucrats may collude with their former colleagues in the ministries they worked for to secure lucrative government contracts, avoid regulatory inspections, or obtain preferential treatment for their new employers. This paper provides an explicit formalization of the implicit collusion between the regulator and the regulated. |
10 |
Other |
Corruption in Japan: An economist's perspective |
W Pascha |
1999 |
(abstract not available) |
10 |
Journal Article |
Conflict of interest : a Japanese perspective |
A Akabayashi , BT Slingsby… |
2005 |
Until recently, many of Japan's medical and bioethical
communities had ignored the issue of conflicts of interest (CIs). This is
no longer the case. Discussion on the economic and ethical problems
defined by CIs is now apparent in academic, political, and even industrial
spheres. In June 2004, this debate was sparked by a scandal involving
AnGes MG, Inc., a bioventure company set up by a faculty member at Osaka
University Graduate School of Medicine. AnGes MG developed a gene therapy
using the Hepatic Growth Factor for obstructive blood vessel disease.
Japanese newspapers reported that “several physicians involved with
clinical trials for AnGes obtained unlisted shares of stock. One physician
allegedly received 32 million yen (U.S. $320,000) after AnGes MG went
public on the ‘Mothers’ stock exchange” (a market for
high-growth and emerging stocks). |
9 |
Journal Article |
Regulations on Bid Rigging in Japan, The United States and Europe |
N Okatani |
1995 |
(abstract not available) |
9 |
Journal Article |
The Supreme Court and the push for transparency in lower court appointments in Japan |
DH Foote |
2010 |
(abstract not available) |
9 |
Journal Article |
The Regulation of Insider Trading in Japan: Introducing a Private Right of Action |
GF Parker |
1995 |
(abstract not available) |
8 |
Journal Article |
Can trust facilitate bribery? Experimental evidence from China, Italy, Japan, and The Netherlands |
T Jiang, JW Lindemans , C Bicchieri |
2015 |
(abstract not available) |
8 |
Journal Article |
Legal Barriers to US Firm Participation in the Japanese Construction Industry |
DL Richter |
1991 |
(abstract not available) |
8 |
Journal Article |
Lightning up the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: A Case Study of US Tobacco Industry Political Influence Buying in Japan |
M Levin |
2008 |
(abstract not available) |
8 |
Journal Article |
Nurturing domestic firms through public procurement : A comparison between Brazil and Japan |
WF Sorte Junior |
2016 |
Due to the significant amount of financial resources involved, public procurement can be used as a useful pull mechanism to stimulate private investment and to influence market dynamics, entrepreneurship, and R&D activities, in order to promote the growth of local industries. This study examines recent policies implemented by the Brazilian government aimed at using public procurement to foster the domestic industry. It also discusses how the Japanese government used public procurement as a tool to promote the growth of domestic firms before the country signed the World Trade Organization’s Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) in 1995, in order to present the advantages and drawbacks of each country’s approach. This study argues that, while the pre-GPA Japanese approach was efficient in creating more significant partnerships between the government and key domestic firms to achieve industrial policy objectives in strategic sectors, the Brazilian recently implemented policy has the advantage of being more accountable and transparent. This research argues for the possibility to harmonize transparency and accountability with initiatives to nurture domestic firms in public tenders and contends that an efficient strategy to use public procurement to promote the growth of the national industry should be a mixture of the Brazilian and Japanese approaches. |
8 |
Journal Article |
Running on character? Running on policy? An analysis of Japanese candidates' campaign platforms |
JF Adams , E Scheiner , J Kawasumi |
2016 |
We present theoretical and empirical analyses of candidates' platforms in the 2003 and 2009 Japanese House of Representatives elections, in an effort to understand candidates' strategic decisions to emphasize policy debates and to highlight their character-based qualities. Our study highlights the significance of comparative electoral advantages that motivate differing strategies between candidates from different parties, between candidates competing in rural versus urban districts, and between candidates contesting the 2003 versus the 2009 elections. Our study contributes to the growing literature that jointly analyzes politicians' policy-based vote-seeking strategies versus electoral appeals based on valence-related attributes such as competence, integrity, and leadership ability, that may appeal to voters because they enhance winning candidates’ performance in office. |
8 |
Other |
Corruption and public trust: perspectives on Japan and East Asia |
SJ Pharr |
2000 |
(abstract not available) |
7 |