Publications
Most of my papers are in Japanese since they are about Japanese law. Followings are my publication in English and Japanese publication with English abstract.
For comprehensive list of my publications including Japanese works, see Japanese site.
* English abstract is available.
Articles (including book chapters)
- 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.