Current status
- Professor
The Advanced Institute for Law and Politics, Hokkaido University
- North 9 West 7, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0809, JAPAN
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Education
- Kyoto University, Department of Law, B.A. (Law), 1999.
- Kyoto University, Graduate School of Law, M.A. (Law), 2001.
Japan Securities Scholarship Foundation Grant, 1999-2001.
- Kyoto University, Graduate School of Law, Ph.D. program (Law), 2001-2004.
Asahi Glass Scholarship Foundation Grant, 2001-2004.
- Kyoto University, Ph.D. (Law), 2008.
Dissertation: Incentive Balancing Approach to Analyze Horizontal Restraints (2007).
- Yale Law School, LL.M, 2009.
ITO Foundation for International Education Exchange Grant, 2008-2009.
Speech at the 19th Annual Meeting of ITO Foundation for International Education Exchange (12/11/2010)
Employment
- Research Fellow, Department of Law, Kyoto University, 2004-2005.
- Research Fellow, Center of Excellence Program, Kyoto University, 2005-2006.
- Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property, 2006-2007.
- Education Program Coordinator, Modern Good Practice Program (Human Resources Development for IP Management in International Business), Department of Law and Politics, Rikkyo University, 2007-2008.
- Associate Professor, Graduate School of Law, Hokkaido University, 2009-2016
- Professor, The Advanced Institute for Law and Politics, Hokkaido University, 2016-
Presentations » » » Full descriptions available in Japanese
- Big Data Business and Discrimination (Hokkaido University, December 21, 2019)
- Antimonopoly Policy in the Japanese Mobile Market (Hokkaido University, August 2, 2017)
- Antimonopoly Law in the Globalizsed Era: International Factors of Law-making and Extraterritorial Applications (Doshisha University, March 29, 2017)
- Unilateral Resale Price Maintenance & In-store Interbrand Rivalry (Hokkaido University, January 30, 2016)
- Vaccine Supply Chain (Hokkaido University, January 30, 2016)
- Assessment of Import Competition in Merger Control: Lessons from the EU Practice (Hokkaido University, November 21, 2015)
- Spatial Competition and Merger Control (Hokkaido University, June 20, 2015)
- Private and Public Interests and the Antimonopoly Law Enforcement (Kobe University, January 25, 2015)
- RPM: Hamanaka and Addidas (Kanseigakuin University, October 17, 2014)
- Determinants of Advanced Competition Laws (Hokkaido University, January 25, 2014)
- Legal Reasoning and Economic Analysis in the Antimonopoly law (Japan Economic Law Annual Conference, October 19, 2013)
slides(uncensored) handout
- Rethinking Regulation of Exorbitant Prizes: Complete Gachapon (Hokkaido University, September 7, 2012)
Publications in English » » » Full Publications List available in Japanese
Postscript Economic facts analyzed in competition law cases tend to be ambiguous and thus their characterizations could vary depending on who makes the decision. For example, any product is to some extent differentiated; a given product is homogeneous for some but not for others. In Western Digital Irland/Viviti Technologies, the European Commission reasoned that 3.5" Desktop HDD products showed features of differentiated products, whereas FTC and JFTC treated desktop HDD products as largely homogenous products. Such divergent economic fact-findings can also be explained by theory-ladenness.
Research Interests
- Economic Analysis of Alliances & Mergers
- Governance structures and competitive effects of alliances
- Informational structure of legal decision making
- Cognitive theory of human decision making
- Personal factors in legal decision making: disciplines, cultures & languages
- Price Leadership in a Strategic Context
- Big Data and Data Protection Law
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