Q&A Guide to Economic Security: Legal Frameworks and Practical Risk Management Strategies
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Q&A Guide to Economic Security: Legal Frameworks and Practical Risk Management Strategies
Tokyo partner Yuki Sakurada authored a book titled “Q&A Guide to Economic Security: Legal Frameworks and Practical Risk Management Strategies,” published by Nikkei Business Publications in June 2025.
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External Seminars
- Analysis of the Framework and Current State of the FDI Screening and Exemption System under the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act of Japan (“FEFTA”)
Competition Law / International Trade
- Introduction of Prior Reporting Obligations for International Transfers of Key Technologies
Related Knowledge
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Japan: Designation of Large-scale Platform Operators Pursuant to Article 20(1) of the Information Distribution Platform Act
Data Protection
- Noriya ISHIKAWA
- Gai MATSUSHITA
- Takahiro SUGAUCHI and others
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Make Investing Safe Again: Investment Planning and Investment Screening in Times of Geopolitical Uncertainties
Europe
Competition Law / International Trade
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Future of regulation and quasi regulation
Los Angeles
External Seminars
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22nd Annual International Mergers & Acquisitions Conference
America
External Seminars
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Doing Business In Vietnam
Doing Business In Series
- Hikaru OGUCHI
- Kazuhide OHYA
- Taro HIROSAWA and others
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Forensic Science and the Confrontation Clause - Smith v. Arizona (2024)
Articles
He served as Director for Foreign Direct Investment Issues at the Ministry of Finance of Japan for three years from 2019 to 2022. During his tenure, he was the chief architect and strategist of the amendment of the FEFTA in 2020, where the threshold for prior mandatory notification for the acquisition of listed company shares by foreign investors was lowered from 10% to 1%. After the enactment of the amendment, he was in charge of reviewing the scope of designated business for the mandatory notification (addition of pharmaceuticals and medical equipment for communicable diseases, and critical mineral resource-related industries), strengthening the operation of screening and post-transaction monitoring, and strengthening cooperation in investment screening with relevant authorities of like-minded countries, including CFIUS of the U.S. He was also engaged in the planning and drafting of the revision of the FEFTA in 2022 (related to crypto assets) and the prohibition of new investment in Russia in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
He is the co-author of a section-by-section commentary on FDI screening under the FEFTA (“Sho-kai Gaitame-hou, Inward Direct Investment and Specified Acquisition Edition” (Shoji Homu, June 2021). He was also a speaker at webinars on FDI screening for government officials of member countries organized by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
May 2021 – Webinar on Transparency, Predictability and Accountability for investment screening mechanisms
May 2022 – Regulatory proportionality of investment screening mechanisms