Introduction – “Dispute Resolution, Law and the Economy in Present-Day Japan”

Abstract

On 3 March 2014, the annual spring conference on recent developments in Japanese law was organized by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law on its premises with the help of Professor Souichirou Kozuka, Gakūshuin University, Tōkyō, and in cooperation with the German Japanese Association of Jurists. It was the third conference since the series began in 2012. The conference started with an overview of the 2013 evaluation of the law regulating alternative dispute resolution. Two lectures on corporate law followed that dealt with, first, the political environment of company law reforms in Japan in recent years and, second, the final Bill to amend the Companies Act approved by the Japanese Diet on 20 June 2014. A fourth lecture analyzed the changes in long-term employment and their impact on corporate governance in Japan. These four lectures are presented hereafter.