Regulatory Power and Investors’ Interests: Striking a Balance in Investment Treaties Concluded by Japan
Regulatory Power and Investors’ Interests: Striking a Balance in Investment Treaties Concluded by Japan
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监管权力与投资者利益:日本缔结的投资条约中的平衡
DOI:
10.1017/9781108675772.007
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发表时间:
2021
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Shotaro Hamamoto
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Nishiaki;Y. and O. Aripdjanov;守田逸人ほか;若狭彰室;Shotaro Hamamoto
Japan has concluded thirty-two bilateral investment treaties (BITs), 1 one trilateral investment treaty with China and the Republic of Korea (ROK), 2 twelve economic partnership agreements (EPAs) 3 that contain a chapter on investment4 and is a party to the Energy Charter Treaty. Currently, it is negotiating almost twenty BITs and EPAs with an investment chapter, including a multilateral Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). Together with ten other countries, 5 Japan has also signed the recently concluded Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). 6 The author has had several opportunities to analyse these treaties and Japan’s international investment law policy. 7 As explained in those studies, Japan concluded only a small number1 This number does not include the investment treaty concluded with Mongolia in 2002, which was terminated in 2016 in accordance with Art. 10.19 of the Japan–Mongolia EPA, which entered into force in 2016, and which includes a chapter on investment. It includes three BITs which have been signed but which are not yet in force: the Argentina–Japan BIT (signed on 1 December 2018); the Japan–Jordan BIT (signed on 27 November 2018); and the Japan–United Arab Emirates BIT (signed on 30 April 2018): Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, available at www. mofa. go. jp/ecm/ep/index. htmll (last accessed 22 October 2019). 2 Japan concluded a BIT with China in 1988 and with the ROK in 2002. These two treaties are still in force and the