4 2012 - 3 2015

Grant number：24330013

Grant amount：\17550000 （ Direct Cost: \13500000 、 Indirect Cost：\4050000 ）

During FY2012 through FY 2014, this research has been focusing on the development and enforcement of competition laws of Asian countries, especially China, Malaysia and Vietnam, and demonstrated that their enforcement toward state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are highly dependent on industrial policies in these countries. In addition, by analyzing the state of play as well as the limitation of the WTO disciplines over subsidies, and, in parallel, focusing on the negotiation on disciplines over SOEs in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, it has successfully shown the fact that the latter disciplines may have a function to complement the lacunae of the former in terms of ensuring competitive neutrality as well as the challenges which the latter negotiation should tackle in order to reach an agreement.

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4 2011 - 3 2014

Grant number：23330020

Grant amount：\22490000 （ Direct Cost: \17300000 、 Indirect Cost：\5190000 ）

In order to compare the extraterritorial reach and the international enforcement of antimonopoly law among countries, in 2011 we held a joint-seminar with researchers from East Asia, and in 2012 we had interviews with the United States Department of Justice, law offices in Washington DC, the European Commission, and a law office in Brussels. During that time, as a part of achievements in the research, we had "International Enforcement of Antimonopoly Law" (Nippon Hyoron Sha Press 2012) written and edited by Kazuhiro Tsuchida, and "International Enforcement of Competition Law" (The Annual of The Japan Association of Economic Law, No.34, Yuhikaku Press 2013) published. And as a conclusion of the three years' joint-research, we invited speakers from America, Europe and Asia, and held an international symposium named "International Enforcement of Competition Law- In The Age Of Globalization" in Waseda University in March 2014.

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4 2011 - 3 2014

Grant number：23243029

Grant amount：\39780000 （ Direct Cost: \30600000 、 Indirect Cost：\9180000 ）

We have challenged to seek a possibility of the Global Asian Studies by analyzing the following issues: the volatility of nation-states, the linkage of domestic and international politics, the civil-society building and international society and the critique of theories of civil society from Asian perspectives.
Two international symposiums were held in collaboration with Japan Association for Asian Studies: "The Role of China" (July 8, 2012) and "Asian Studies beyond Borders: Where do we come from? Where are we going?"(June 15, 2013). Between Civil Society and State: the Agenda for Global Asia will be published as a special issue of Area Studies from Kyoto University in October 2014.

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2007 - 2009

Grant number：19203004

Grant amount：\28470000 （ Direct Cost: \21900000 、 Indirect Cost：\6570000 ）

The purposes of this research were to study the status quo of the market which is dominated by a few powerful industries and also to study how the legal control by Business Act and Antitrust Act should be applied.
The conclusions of this research were as follows.
(1) Individual Business Act and Antitrust Act can be applied to the same enterprise.
(2) If action control is not enough, then structural control should be introduced.
(3) Control against the abuse of the market power should be legalized.

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2004 - 2006

Grant number：16330008

Grant amount：\11900000 （ Direct Cost: \11900000 ）

The summary of the research results are as follows.
Firstly we could work on the draft for the revision of "The Modern Development of Broadcasting System", edited by Profs. Funada and Hasebe.
This work is a little behind the schedule due to the changes in the circumstances surrounding the Broadcasting. Secondly, behind these changes in circumstances are the several movements leading to the amendments of Broadcasting Law.
For example,(1) legal issues on NHK (2)amendments of law concerning the relaxation of the exclusion principle of massmedia concentration(3) distribution of the terrestrial digital broadcast by Internet Our co-research is targetting on the above mentioned movements.
Individual research result will be disclosed and put together into one book.
Prof. Hasebe is responsible for the comparison research on NHK issues with those of BBC.
Concerning the relaxation of the exclusion principle of the concentration, concentration through holding company is exceptionally allowed.
The Internet distribution of the terrestrial digital broadcast contains some problems, so we need more discussions.

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2003 - 2004

Grant number：15730025

Grant amount：\2100000 （ Direct Cost: \2100000 ）

アジアにおける地域統合の流れは予想を上回るペースで加速化しており、現時点では、EUにおける国家補助規制のような形態の、各国の補助金政策ないしは産業政策に対して、域内市場の一層の自由化をめざした競争政策的な規制の導入は実現していない。逆に、域内コンソーシアム型の共同プロジェクトは、これまでも実施されており、これからもあり得る(例:ASEAN車)。従来の状況に対して、新たに注目されるプレーヤーとして、中国と日本が登場した。これらの国に主導される形で、東・南東アジア地域における自由貿易圏構想がにわかに現実的なものとなりつつあり、今後の動向が注視されるが、これら地域統合においても、現段階では主に関税撤廃を中心としたモノ貿易の自由化および資本やヒトの移動をともなうサービス貿易自由化が主たる関心対象であり、各国の補助金政策に対する直接の地域内規律は俎上にのぼっていない。また、我が国ODA等の国際援助も。
他方、WTOによる多国間自由貿易体制は、その創設から10年が経過し、いくつかの潜在的問題をはらみながらも、おおむね順調に推移している。補助金規律の分野においても、SCM協定やTRIMs協定による各国の産業政策の規律は、ガットからWTOへの「法化」パラダイム転換を受けて、法律上も実際上も、従来より厳格な国際規律の下に置かれている。こうした国際規律は、開発途上国にも等しく及んでおり、これはインドの自動車事件、インドネシアの国民車事件、カナダ=ブラジル間の小型航空機に対する補助金を巡る紛争などの紛争解決事例に実証的にあらわれている。
このように当面、アジア地域における補助金の国際規律は、WTO主導で進むものと予想されるが、現在加速の度を高めているアジア地域の市場統合が急速に進展する場合には、域内の補助金規律が、域内市場自由化および統合という観点から当然問題となり得よう。

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