Publications
Most of my papers are in Japanese because they focus on Japanese law. Below are my publications in English and Japanese with English abstracts. For a complete list of my publications, including Japanese works, please visit my Japanese site.
* English abstract is available.
Articles (including book chapters)
- Bruce E. Aronson & Manabu Matsunaka, Designing a New Framework to Regulate Hostile Takeovers in a Changing Japan, 20 University of Pennsylvania Asian Law Review 519 (September 2025), available at https://doi.org/10.58112/alr.20-3.3.
- Souichirou Kozuka, Manabu Matsunaka & Akane Kido, Sustainability in between Corporate Law and Contract Law, 30 Uniform Law Review 129-142 (August 2025), available at https://doi.org/10.1093/ulr/unaf030.
- Manabu Matsunaka, The Concept of Corporate Value: Corporate Governance, Shareholder Interests, and Stakeholder Interests in Japan, 57 Journal of Japanese Law 83-98 (July, 2024).
- Hatsuru Morita & Manabu Matsunaka, Career Judge System and Court Decision Biases: Preliminary Evidence from Japan, in Yun-chien Chang ed. Selection and Decision in Judicial Process around the World: Empirical Inquires132-159 (Cambridge University Press, January 2020).
- Manabu Matsunaka, Politics of Japanese Corporate Governance Reform: Politicians do Matter, 15-1 Berkeley Business Law Journal 154-184 (June 2018).
- Gen Goto, Manabu Matsunaka & Souichirou Kozuka, Japan's Gradual Reception of Independent Directors: An Empirical and Political-Economic Analysis, in, Dan Puchniak, Harald Baum & Luke Nottage eds. Independent Directors in Asia: A Historical, Contextual and Comparative Approach 135-175 (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
- Rulemaking Process for Hostile Takeover and Defensive Tactics in Japan, Shiho [Journal of Private Law], No. 74, pp.226-232.*
- Labor Relations and Labor Law in Japan, Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, Vol. 20, No.3, pp.529-561, June 2011.
Discussion Papers and Working Papers
- Bruce E. Aronson & Manabu Matsunaka, Designing a New Framework to Regulate Hostile Takeovers in a Changing Japan, European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 782/2024, available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4882079 (June, 2024).
- Labor Relations and Labor Law in Japan (with Atsushi Tsuneki (ISER, Osaka University)), ISER Discussion Paper, Dec. 2008*.
Book Reviews and others
- Manabu Matsunaka, Book review, Kigyō tōchi no hō to keizaigaku: Hikakuseido bunseki no shiten de miru gabanansu (Law and Economics of Corporate Governance: A Comparative Institutional Analysis), edited by Wataru Tanaka and Masaki Nakabayashi, Social Science Japan Journal, Forthcoming (2017).
- Book Review, Quiet Politics and Business Power: Corporate Control in Europe and Japan, by Pepper D. Culpepper, Social Science Japan Journal, Vol.16, No.2, pp. 320-323, July 2013.
- Recent Changes in Roles of Stock Exchange in Japan: Stock Exchange as a Rule Maker of Corporate Law, Cambodian Yearbook of Comparative Legal Studies, Vol.3, pp.65-86, March 2012.
- Book Review:The Future of Corporate Groups Law, Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, Vol. 19 No.4, p.448, Dec. 2008.