Yuta Yamasaki

Attorney, LPC Tokyo International Law Office

- Represented a Japanese company in litigations over false securities reports and director liabilities.

- Represented Japanese companies in a litigation for seeking damages under Product Liability Law.

- Represented a Japanese company in labor tribunal for a dispute as to dismissal of its employee.

- Represented a US technology company in numerous court proceedings for information disclosure or removal requests.

- Represented numerous US and European institutions in a litigation for seeking damages against false securities reports.

- Represented a Korea-affiliated company in court proceedings for injunctive measures to acquire control of a Japanese company.

- Represented a Norwegian company in a litigation for deciding the fair price of shares for TOB.

- Advised a shareholder of a Japanese company as to share transfer.

- Advised a Japanese company on its drafting a service agreement following the new Freelance Act.

- Advised a Swedish company in its collecting fees for its subscription services.

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State immunity and arbitration in Japan

Practice Notes

The Japanese framework differs in important respects from common law models. Japan codified its law of foreign state immunity comparatively recently, in the Act on the Civil Jurisdiction of Japan with respect to Foreign States (Act No. 24 of 2009) (the ‘Foreign States Act’), which entered into force on 1 April 2010. The Foreign States Act closely follows the United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property (2004) (‘UNCJI’), which Japan signed in January 2007 and ratified in 2009. As a consequence, the analysis under Japanese law tends to track the structure and language of UNCJI more faithfully than the common-law statutes (such as the UK State Immunity Act 1978 and Singapore’s State Immunity Act 1979) that pre-date the UNCJI.The concept of state immunity and the absence of an ‘act of state’ doctrineState immunity (or sovereign immunity) prohibits the courts of one state from asserting jurisdiction

Arbitration