| Other |
Comparing media relations in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States: A metaresearch analysis |
MY Wu |
2011 |
(abstract not available) |
4 |
| Journal Article |
Concentrated Power: The Paradox of Antitrust in Japan |
H First, T Shiraishi |
2005 |
Abstract
Many reasons have been given for weak antitrust enforcement in Japan. In this paper we explore one reason that has been overlooked - the concentration of enforcement authority in Japan's Fair Trade Commission.
The paper begins with a description of Japan's antitrust enforcement system, with a particular focus on the current position and activities of the JFTC. We then compare Japan's system to the antitrust enforcement system that has evolved in the United States, primarily to provide the contrast of a system where enforcement is more deconcentrated and enforcers operate in a networked environment rather than in a hierarchical one. We conclude with three suggestions for opening up antitrust enforcement in Japan: Increase the networking of the JFTC and other ministries regarding competition matters; strengthen the support structure for private litigation; and encourage the JFTC to participate fully in the growing internationalization of antitrust enforcement. |
4 |
| Journal Article |
Corporate social responsibility, corporate governance and auditing in Japan |
R Kurihama |
2005 |
Abstract
This paper clarifies the issues and future challenges that Japanese corporations are facing through discussion of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Japan. And it also clarifies the relationship between CSR, corporate governance, and auditing in Japan while it examines the concept of auditing as corporate auditing. In recent years, we see a growing trend toward discussion of CSR. However, CSR varies depending on the country, region, and corporation while the background to discussion about CSR and the issue and future challenges of CSR vary. We need to examine the background to discussion about CSR and the issues and future challenges of CSR in Japan. Thus, I begin by considering the current status of CSR in Japan. Then I argue corporate governance in Japan because it is necessary to ensure the implementation of CSR.
Based on the foregoing discussions, I examine how auditing contributes to reestablishing the mutual trust of corporations and society as well as how auditing must be changed in line with CSR, and present a new analytical framework of auditing as a new view in Japan. |
4 |
| Journal Article |
Indirect evidence in japanese cartel control |
K Arai IIC |
2015 |
Cartel control is a major issue in any economy with competition laws. This article deals with the proof of cartel agreements based on indirect evidence from communications, which extends the interpretation of the term “mutually” in the Japanese judicial system. A case precedent has referred to the word “mutually” as indicative of the existence of a communication of intention, or a “liaison of intention”. The term “liaison of intention” is defined as an action that facilitates recognizing and predicting the implementation of the same or similar types of action by others. This article incorporates economic insights into the discussion of indirect evidence, refers to the system of reporting parallel price increases, and examines four Japanese case studies to investigate recent developments concerning the proof of a liaison of intention. |
4 |
| Journal Article |
Japan's" PXL" Decision: The Politics of Weapons Procurement |
S Han |
1978 |
(abstract not available) |
4 |
| Other |
A Declining Technocratic Regime: Bureaucracy , Political Parties and Interest Groups in Japan, 1950-2000 |
T Nakamura |
2002 |
(abstract not available) |
3 |
| Journal Article |
Case studies of bid - rigging and procurement reform assessment in fuel oil supply in Japan and Korea |
K Arai |
2012 |
In November 1999, the Japanese Fair Trade Commission took legal action against participants in bids for oil delivery work ordered by the Self-Defense Forces. Then, in September 2000, the Korean Fair Trade Commission took legal action against participants in bids for oil delivery work ordered by the Korean Ministry of National Defense. These actions were not related, though there are similarities between the cases, each of which involves oil delivery companies obtaining special procurement privileges through deals with national security authorities. Study of these cases led to speculation as why the industry is conductive to collusion. According to the study three important results were recognized: Several measures in the plan for Japanese and Korean procurement reform were then analyzed. The implementation can clarify issues that are important for eradicating the participantsyʼ incentives for collusion. |
3 |
| Journal Article |
Collusion between public procurers and suppliers in the context of japan's public procurement: The role of the risks of “unsuccessful procurement” |
S Tanaka, S Hayashi |
2016 |
This paper examines the economic forces which may lead to government-assisted or -facilitated bid-rigging (kansei-dango) in public procurement in Japan, and considers their implications. A public official may often worry about situations where his/her procurement project will not be successfully implemented. Based on a simplified theoretical treatment and on case studies of kansei-dango, it is argued that the desire to avert the risk of unsuccessful procurement resulting from the "experience goods" status of procured goods and/or services may be one reason for bid-rigging. Based on this understanding of kansei-dango, we discuss some implications for policies to restrain this type of corruption. |
3 |
| Book |
Contributions, covenants, and corruption: Politicians and society in Japan |
S Pharr |
2005 |
(abstract not available) |
3 |
| Journal Article |
Deterrence of Antitrust Violations: Do Actions for Damages Matter in Japan? |
SV Walle |
1985 |
There is considerable debate about the role private litigation should play in the enforcement of antitrust law. This article focuses on one of the most controversial private enforcement mechanisms – damages actions – and assesses whether and how much such actions have contributed to deterring antitrust violations in Japan. It does so by answering two questions: (1) how much have damages actions contributed to the detection of antitrust violations?, and (2) how much have damages actions contributed to an increase in the sanctions for antitrust violations? Based on original data concerning damages actions between 1990 and 2010, the article argues that damages actions have somewhat contributed to deterring certain antitrust violations, bid-rigging in particular, but that an almost equivalent measure of deterrence could have been generated more efficiently by imposing higher penalties through public enforcement. |
3 |
| Journal Article |
Exporting a Japanese model? Collusion in the foreign aid program |
DM Potter |
1998 |
(abstract not available) |
3 |
| Other |
Japan Bar Association Issues New Anticorruption Compliance Guidelines |
JE Hough, C Yakura |
2016 |
(abstract not available) |
3 |
| Journal Article |
Corruption in Japanese Defense Procurement : A Game-theoretic Analysis |
T Mizoguchi, N Van Quyen |
2008 |
The Japanese defense market is an oligopoly. Firms in the defense industry also produce civilian goods, and the revenues they obtain from defense contracts are quite small relative to the revenues coming from the production of private goods. Because the Japanese constitution prohibits arms export, the defense industry in Japan essentially serves an internal market. Furthermore, defense contracts are not awarded on a competitive basis. The procurement procedures rely on cost-plus contracts, most of which are carried out at the discretion of the bureaucrats in charge. Information on prices and contracts thus become extremely opaque, which makes it easier for misuse and corruption to flourish. The paper presents a game that incorporates these features of the defense procurement process. The results of the analysis suggest that the government pay for low-quality defenses goods at inflated prices. Furthermore, because Japanese firms are shielded from competition and because of the lack of a large foreign market, the Japanese defense industry has no incentive to engage in R&D to improve the quality of its defense goods. |
2 |
| Journal Article |
Culture versus Competition: Economic Liberalization in Russia, China, and Japan |
S Rosefielde Problems of Post |
2002 |
(abstract not available) |
2 |
| Journal Article |
How Japan's Lobbyists in the United States Manipulate America's Political and Economic System |
P Choate |
1990 |
(abstract not available) |
2 |
| Journal Article |
Study on the Crime of Commercial Bribery between China and Japan [J] |
C Jialin |
2006 |
Both China and Japan are paying attention to fighting against commercial bribery,but there are some different rules in the two criminal laws.In Japan,the crime of bribery concerning public officers is ordained in criminal law while crimes of commercial bribery are included in accessory criminal law.The descriptions on the constitution elements of commercial bribery in criminal law are much stricter than those on crimes of bribery concerning public officers.The above mentioned descriptions in Japanese law can be used for reference in the legislation and interpretation of crime of commercial bribery in China. |
2 |
| Other |
Value for Money or No value for money?: A Case of Public Sector Auditing in Japanese Local Government |
H Yoshimi |
2000 |
(abstract not available) |
2 |
| Other |
Collusion in fuel oil public bidding: Analytical case studies in Japan and Korea |
K Arai |
2004 |
(abstract not available) |
2 |
| Book |
Mediated by Gifts: Politics and Society in Japan, 1350-1850 |
M Chaiklin |
2016 |
(abstract not available) |
1 |
| Other |
Regulatory Capture in Public Procurement: Evidence from Revolving Door Bureaucrats in Japan |
K Asai , K Kawai, J Nakabayashi |
2016 |
(abstract not available) |
1 |
| Journal Article |
The Failure of the Japanese" Big Bang": Bureaucracy -Driven Reforms and Politician Intervention |
I Okamoto |
2005 |
The "financial big bang" of the late 1990s strove to fundamentally liberalize the Japanese financial system and create a free, fair, and global financial market. However, as is now evident from the stagnation of the stock market and the bad debt problems of Japanese banks, those reforms have not accomplished their desired ends. The question is: Why? This article attributes the failure of the big bang to the inability of the reforms to go beyond liberalizing the securities industry by challenging the government's protection of the banking sector, and to the government's haphazard intervention in the stock market. The article concludes that these are all problems of "financial gover-nance," that is, the reforms were "bottom-up," implemented at the initiative of the Securities Bureau of the Ministry of Finance (MOF), and politicians intervened in financial administration after the MOF was broken up. |
1 |
| Journal Article |
The paradox of economic crime in Japan: The thalidomide scourge, the Lockheed scandal, and endemic political corruption |
H Pontell, G Geis |
2007 |
(abstract not available) |
1 |
| Journal Article |
The Saitama Saturday Club Case: Political Meddling, Public Opinion, and Antitrust Enforcement in Japan at a Turning Point |
S Vande Walle |
2012 |
Abstract
This paper tells the story of the Saitama Saturday Club case and how it changed antitrust enforcement in Japan. Although the case is often cited as an example of failed antitrust enforcement, in fact, the case had a lasting and positive impact in many unexpected ways.
The case opposed Japan’s antitrust enforcement agency against the country’s mighty construction industry. For years, the construction companies had rigged bids for thousands of public works in Saitama Prefecture, in clear violation of Japan’s Antimonopoly Act. Yet they escaped relatively scot-free, as the Japan Fair Trade Commission decided not to bring criminal charges and instead handled the case with a trifle administrative penalty.
But this docile treatment triggered a public backlash. Angry citizens sued the bid-riggers for damages, an unprecedented move that would subsequently be replicated in over eighty other cases throughout Japan. More broadly, the case heightened public awareness of the pernicious nature of bid-rigging and galvanized popular support for more robust antitrust enforcement. In turn, this support enabled the Japan Fair Trade Commission to move against entrenched interests and, in the years that followed, gradually step up enforcement, an evolution that continues to this day. In this sense, the Saitama Saturday Club case constituted a turning point for antitrust enforcement in Japan. |
1 |
| Journal Article |
Accounting Fraud at Japanese Companies |
SK Dutta, RA Lawson |
2018 |
Abstract
Japanese companies in the 1980s were looked upon as the models for business innovation. Admired by the rest of the world for manufacturing efficiency and business strategy, Japanese companies were renowned for pioneering management techniques such as kaizen, target costing, and flexible manufacturing. Yet in recent years, the Japanese economy has experienced a spate of corporate scandals. Facing business setbacks, companies altered product data, hid losses, and even resorted to issuing misleading financial reports. Shareholder value was damaged, and consumers were outraged. What changed, and how could these scandals have been avoided? |
1 |
| Journal Article |
The Study of Organization of Regulating Bid - Rigging of Japan and Referenceto China [J] |
Y WANG, J WU |
2006 |
In Japan,as a kind of unreasonable restraints of trade,namely cartel,bid-rigging is regulated by Prohibition of Private Monopolization Act.Fair Trade Commission,as the organization of the law,regulatesconspirebidding and plays an important role. In addition to possessing the administrative power,the Fair TradeCommission still possesses the precise judicature and legislative power,and independentlyexercisesthe power.China should sets up the unified and centralisedorganizationto regulate bid-riggingdue to Japan's experiences. |
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