Corporation Law in Transnational Aspects

本项目的目的是全面研究有关日本公司法在跨国事务中的适用的所有问题。这些问题必须分两部分进行研究。第一个是法律选择问题：与公司法有关的事务适用哪个国家的法律？第二个是实体法的建设性问题：例如，如果适用日本法律，日本公司法中的“公司”一词是否包括“外国公司”？关于第一个问题，除了法律选择的观点外，在某些情况下还必须从公法的角度进行审查(例如，公法的域外适用)。日本《公司法》关于外国公司的重要立法问题包括：(1)关于准外国公司的规定不明确，(2)关于外国公司的规定存在缺陷(例如，其财务报表披露不足)，(3)在债券持有人会议、合并等方面对外国公司的待遇不明确。(4)公认法律实体的要求：日本公司跨国经营所带来的大部分公司法问题，都可以通过现行《公司法》得到充分解决。

The purpose of this project is a comprehensive research of all the issues concerning the application of the Japanese Corporation Law to transnational affairs.The issues must be examined in two parts. The first is a choice-of-law problem : which country's law is to be applied to the affairs concerning corporation law ? The second is a constructive problem of substantive law : for example, whether the term "corporation" in the Japanese Corporation Law includes a "foreign corporation", if Japanese law is to be applied? Concerning the first problem, in addition to choice-of-law view points, examinations must be made from public-law view points (for example, extra-territorial application of public law) in some circumstances.Important legislative issues of the Japanese Corporation Law concerning foreign corporations include : (1) ambiguity of the provision dealing with quasi-foreign corporations, (2) defects of the provisions concerning foreign corporations (for example, insufficient disclosure of their financial statements), (3) ambiguity of treatment of foreign corporations in bondholders' meetings, mergers etc., (4) requirement of recognized legal entities.Most of the Corporation Law issues brought about by Japanese corporations' transnational activities can be solved adequately by the existing Corporation Law.