Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity

Knowledge Management

通产省与日本奇迹 = Mi Ti and the Japanese miracle

20th anniversary edition of "The End of History and the Last Man", a landmark of political philosophy by Francis Fukuyama, author of "The Origins of Political Order". With the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 the threat of the Cold War which had dominated the second half of the twentieth century vanished. And with it the West looked to the future with optimism but renewed uncertainty. "The End of History and the Last Man" was the first book to offer a picture of what the new century would look like. Boldly outlining the challenges and problems to face modern liberal democracies, Frances Fukuyama examined what had just happened and then speculated what was going to come next. Tackling religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes and war, "The End of History and the Last Man" remains a compelling work to this day, provoking argument and debate among its readers. "Awesome ...a landmark ...profoundly realistic and important ...supremely timely and cogent ...the first book to fully fathom the depth and range of the changes now sweeping through the world." (George Gilder, "The Washington"). Post Francis Fukuyama was born in Chicago in 1952. His work includes "America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy" and "After the Neo Cons: Where the Right went Wrong". He now lives in Washington D.C. with his wife and children, where he also works as a part time photographer.

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The end of history and the last man : kemenangan kapitalisme dn demokrasi liberal / oleh Francis Fukuyama, penerjemah M.H. Amrullah

How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan:

Preface, Akira Kawamura 1. Foreign Investment and Dispute Resolution Law and Practice in Asia: An Overview, Vivienne Bath and Luke Nottage 2. Investment Arbitration in Asia: Five Perspectives on Law and Practice, Luke Nottage and J. Romesh Weeramantry 3. A Passive Player in International Investment Law: Typically Japanese?, Shotaro Hamamoto 4. The Quandary for Chinese Regulators: Controlling the Flow of Investment into and out of China, Vivienne Bath 5. China's Investment Treaties: A Procedural Perspective, Nils Eliasson 6. Foreign Investment in Indonesia: The Problem of Legal Uncertainty, Simon Butt 7. The Japan-Indonesia Economic Partnership Agreement: An Energy Security Perspective, Sita Sitaresmi 8. Foreign Investment Laws and the Role of FDI in Malaysia's 'New' Economic Model, Salim Farrar 9. Treaty Definitions of 'Investment' and the Role of Economic Development: A Critical Analysis of the Malaysian Historical Salvors Cases, Govert Coppens 10. The 'Object and Purpose' of Indian Investment Agreements: Failing to Balance Investment Protection and Regulatory Power, Prabhash Ranjan 11. The Evolution of Korea's Investment Treaties and Investor-State Dispute Settlement Provisions, Joongi Kim 12. Legal Issues in Vietnam's FDI Law: Protections under Domestic Law, Bilateral Investment Treaties and Sovereign Guarantees, Hop Dang 13. Review of Asian Views on Foreign Investment Law, Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah

Foreign investment and dispute resolution law and practice in Asia

Developing insights from a number of disciplines and with a details analysis of legislation, case law and academic theory, Product Safety and Liability Law in Japan contributes significantly to the understanding of contemporary Japan, its consumers and its law. It is also of practical use to all professionals exposed to product liability regimes evolving in Japan and other major economies.

Product Safety and Liability Law in Japan: From Minamata to Mad Cows

Following the success of the first edition, Principles of Contemporary Corporate Governance Second Editionmaintains the delineation of core principles of corporate governance and provides a concise presentation of vital topics and emerging themes in corporate governance within the private sector. This definitive book not only exposes the fundamental principles of corporate governance, it builds upon them by illustrating how they are applied. It includes several prominent case studies, and directors’ duties and liabilities are illustrated by drawing on the most recent Australian court cases. Although grounded in Australian corporate governance, the book will appeal to practitioners and students of law and business management internationally. Principles of corporate governance are explicated for readers in all jurisdictions, with specific reference to the global financial crisis and the implications for corporate governance developments in the future. The OECD Principles of Corporate Governance are addressed, and specific chapters on corporate governance debates in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Japan and China have been provided by expert contributors for this new edition.

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Principles of contemporary corporate governance, 2nd edition

The 'lost' decade of economic stagnation in Japan during the 1990s has become a 'found decade' for regulatory and institutional reform. With nearly all areas of the 'law in the books' reviewed, revised and rewritten, the Japanese legal system is no longer the system that foreign commentators felt they were finally starting to understand by the 1980s. Nowhere is this more evident than in corporate governance. Corporate and securities legislation has been comprehensively revamped over 1993-2007, creating a more flexible and transparent regime for shareholders and managers. Financial markets law and regulatory institutions have changed, too, creating a new context for Japan's 'main banks' as alternative or additional outside monitors of managerial performance in borrowing firms. Even the legislation surrounding labour regulations has been amended, reinforcing the lifelong security privileges for elite employee-stakeholders, yet also hastening the growth of other atypical employment relationships. But how do such legislative reforms affecting key players in Japanese firms, covering areas central to the design of Japanese capitlaism, play out in the 'law in action'? Overall, this book argues that a significant gradual transformation has occurred. Although this is evident also in other advanced industrialised democracies, such as Germany, Japan reveals especially complex interactions in the various fields that sometimes emphasise different ways of achieving such transformation.

Corporate governance in the 21st century : Japan's gradual transformation

Japan finally seems to be pulling itself out of its "lost decade" (and a half) of economic stagnation. Some grudgingly or triumphantly attribute this to micro-economic reforms, freeing up arthritic markets, although there is also evidence that macro-economic policy failures have been a major cause of poor performance since the 1990s. Many point to overlapping transformations in corporate governance, broadly defined to cover relationships among managers and employees as well as between firms and outside shareholders, creditors, and other stakeholders. These relationships are in flux, with moves arguably favouring shareholders and more market-driven control mechanisms. It has certainly been a "found decade" for law reform in Japan, particularly in corporate law, with a plethora of legislative amendments commencing around 1993 and culminating in the enactment of a consolidated "Company Law" in 2005. This "modernisation" project, particularly since 2001, is reportedly aimed at (i) securing better corporate governance; (ii) bringing the law into line with a highly-developed information society; (iii) liberalising fundraising measures; (iv) bringing corporate law into line with the internationalization of corporate activity; and (v) modernizing terms and consolidating corporate law. Because the suite of revisions has moved away from strict mandatory rules set out originally in Japan's Commercial Code of 1899, modeled primarily on German law, another growing perception is that Japanese corporate law and practice is or will soon be converging significantly on US models. However, assessments remain divided as to whether these moves in corporate governance and capitalism more generally in Japan amount to a new paradigm or "regime shift". Focusing primarily on quite influential commentary in English, Part I of this paper outlines two pairs of views. It concludes that the most plausible assessment is of significant but "gradual transformation" towards a more market-driven approach, evident also in other advanced political economies. Drawing more generally from these often virulently divided views, Part II sets out five ways forward through the proliferating literature and source material on corporate governance in Japan. Particular care must be taken in: (i) selecting the temporal timeframe, (ii) selecting countries to compare, (iii) balancing black-letter law and broader socio-economic context, (iv) reflecting on and disclosing normative preferences, and (v) giving weight to processes as well as outcomes, when assessing change in Japan - and any other country's governance system. Part III ends with a call for further research particularly on law- and policy-producing processes, rather than mainly outcomes. It also outlines the usefulness of this analytical framework for analysing the broader field of Corporate Social Responsibility, now emerging as the next major area of debate and transformation in Japan - as elsewhere.

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Luke Nottage

Papers

Foreign investment and dispute resolution law and practice in Asia

Product Safety and Liability Law in Japan: From Minamata to Mad Cows

Principles of contemporary corporate governance, 2nd edition

Corporate governance in the 21st century : Japan's gradual transformation

Nothing New in the (North) East? Interpreting the Rhetoric and Reality of Japanese Corporate Governance