I have released Genkōdai on GitHub, an editor I built for writing academic papers that makes footnoting easier while taking care never to let AI invent sources.
At the 2026 Korea-Japan Competition Law Academic Research Conference at Korea University, I presented a critical examination of Japanese competition law enforcement through the lens of innovation.
At the Monash Warwick Alliance Digital Regulation Workshop, I presented on the design of ex ante regulation, drawing on seven months of Japan’s smartphone act in operation.
I contributed commentaries on the Google cases, mergers, and market studies to Competition Policy in the Platform Era (Yuhikaku).
A record of the move from Ameba Ownd to Quarto.
Kluwer Competition Law Blog
Kosei Torihiki no.904 p.45
At IICAH Hawaii 2026, I proposed using blockchain to shift antitrust investigations and remedy monitoring from after-the-fact evidence hunting to advance recording.
Invited to the 2025 Taiwan-Japan Economic Law Conference, I presented on the major developments in Japan’s competition law and policy in 2025.
At the Shojihomu Antimonopoly Law Study Group, I presented on designing remedies in dynamic markets, based on the September 2, 2025 remedies decision in the U.S. Google (search) case.
CPRC Discussion Paper no.CPDP-102-J pp.1–31
Hogaku Seminar special issue, Sokuho Hanrei Kaisetsu no.37
Invited to the Japan Competition Law Forum’s unilateral conduct study group, I gave a commentary on the MC Data Plus cease-and-desist order.
Shin Hanrei Kaisetsu Watch (Economic Law) No.99
My article appeared in the special feature “Innovation and Competition Policy” in the February issue (no.892) of Kosei Torihiki.
I wrote a case note in NBL on two cease-and-desist orders concerning restrictions on shipments outside the cooperative system imposed on nori producers.
Kosei Torihiki’s January issue carries my column on hosting the first National Forum for Economic Law Research at Law Faculties.
I presented on content platforms and the Antimonopoly Act at the Committee for Improving the Status of Performers.
I reviewed Eric Posner’s book for the Japanese Yearbook of International Economic Law.
My English commentary published earlier this year has been included in Concurrences’ book, Competition Law Dictionary.
Invited to the Antimonopoly Cases and Decisions Study Group, I presented on restrictions by fishery cooperatives on shipments outside the cooperative system.
My commentary on the Tokyo High Court judgment in the Minami Airport Service case was published in the third edition of the Hyakusen casebook on economic law.
I wrote a case commentary on the Osaka District Court judgment in Ecorica v. Canon for Jurist’s Important Cases annual.
I took part in the annual conference of the Japan Competition Law Forum, as a presenter and panelist in a session analyzing three printer cases.
I wrote the commentary on “distribution agreement” for Concurrences’ Global Dictionary of Competition Law.
Invited by a University of Tokyo KAKENHI project, I presented on the goals of competition law, economic welfare, and ideology.
At the Seikei University Institute for Future Law, I presented on my NBL article on the Antimonopoly Act and blockchain.
I presented on self-preferencing by digital platforms at ASCOLA Asia 2023, held at Kyoto University.
I presented on the goals of competition law and ideology at the Advanced Competition Law Practice Study Group.
My article on the interplay between the Antimonopoly Act and blockchain appeared in NBL no.1252.
As a CPRC visiting researcher, I gave the final report on the discussion paper I am writing at a CPRC workshop.
Hogaku Seminar special issue, Sokuho Hanrei Kaisetsu no.33 pp.271–274
My presentation at the 2022 conference of the Japan Association of Economic Law has been published as an article in the association’s annual journal.
A younger researcher asked me in passing, so — partly as a hobby — I put together research equipment a law graduate student can assemble for under ¥100,000.
I published an article on self-preferencing under the Antimonopoly Act in Seikei Hogaku no.98, issued at the end of June 2023.
My case note on the Tokyo High Court judgment in the Minami Airport Service case was published in TKC’s Hanrei Kaisetsu Watch.
I presented at the Tohoku Economic Law Study Group on the research behind the article I presented at the Kansai Economic Law Study Group.
At the Kansai Economic Law Study Group, I presented my research on self-preferencing by digital platforms.
At the JFTC’s CPRC, I reported on the progress of my research at an interim workshop.
I presented on my monograph at the 2022 annual conference of the Japan Association of Economic Law, held at Kyoto University.
As a rehearsal for my conference presentation, I presented on my monograph at the Kansai Economic Law Study Group.
With a KDDI Foundation grant, I presented on the legality of above-cost price cuts at the ASCOLA 2022 conference in Porto.
At the Shojihomu Antimonopoly Law Study Group, I presented on the U.S. Facebook case, focusing on the district court’s memorandum opinion of January 11, 2022.
My case note on the Slovak Telekom judgment appeared in Kosei Torihiki no.858, published on April 15.
Reconstructing the Concept of Exclusion in Private Monopolization was released by Shojihomu on April 8.
Reconstructing the Concept of Exclusion in Private Monopolization will be released on April 8, 2022.
My case note, recently published on TKC’s website, has been included in the April issue of Shin Hanrei Kaisetsu Watch.
My case note “A Case Finding Unlawful Tying against Compatible Products” was published in TKC’s Shin Hanrei Kaisetsu Watch.
A piece of mine was published in International Business Law Executive Summary (IBLES).
At the Shojihomu Antimonopoly Law Study Group, I presented on recent developments in EU refusal-to-deal law through the Slovak Telekom judgment.
I presented my article on unilateral refusals to deal at the Tokyo Economic Law Study Group.
My article on unilateral refusals to deal appeared in Osaka Law Review vol.70 no.5, published on January 29.
I presented a research plan workshop at the JFTC’s Competition Policy Research Center (CPRC).
The final installment of my series in Hogaku Ronso appeared in the June 2020 issue.
I presented at the second meeting of the Contract and Equality Study Group.
I presented at the Kansai Economic Law Study Group. An article of the same title will appear in Osaka Law Review vol.70 no.5.
At the Shojihomu Antimonopoly Law Study Group, I examined a U.S. case on monopolization and monopsonization related to labor market concentration.
A piece based on my February presentation at the Shojihomu Antimonopoly Law Study Group was published in Kosei Torihiki.
The third installment of my four-part article in Hogaku Ronso has been published.
My article on predatory pricing appeared in Hogaku Ronso vol.186 nos. 3 and 4.
I presented at the 8th meeting of the International Economic Law and Policy Research Network.
At the Shojihomu Antimonopoly Law Study Group, I presented on a U.S. lower-court decision setting out a standard for predatory pricing after Brooke.
I presented the research behind my Hogaku Ronso article in more detail at the Kansai Economic Law Study Group.
At the Tokyo Economic Law Study Group, I presented on an article of the same title, to be published in installments from December.
My doctoral oral examination is over, and I will complete the doctoral program. A few words on the last three years.
My doctoral oral examination is over, and I will complete the doctoral program.
A case note based on my earlier presentation at the Antimonopoly Law Study Group was published in the August issue of Kosei Torihiki.
The second half of the article based on my master’s thesis, published last year.
At the Antimonopoly Law Study Group of the Kyoto Comparative Law Center, I presented on the Post Danmark I case.
An article based on my master’s thesis research. There are many points I will need to revise as I keep studying.