Japan adopts a soft law approach to AI governance but lawmakers advance proposal for a hard law approach to generative AI foundation models.
Laws/Regulations directly regulating AI (“AI Regulations”)
Japan currently...more
5/24/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Competition ,
Data Privacy ,
Japan ,
Machine Learning ,
Privacy Laws ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Risk Management ,
Technology Sector
Fake news websites have appeared online that use chatbots to post hundreds of articles every day. The aim of many of these sites is to become a "content farm" – meaning low quality websites pumping out AI-generated articles...more
AI has surpassed human performance in many areas once thought to be too complex for any computer to master. As AI evolves it will continue to surpass human abilities, and a central question will be what degree of autonomy we...more
China has recently promulgated a somewhat short, but comprehensive, regulation on generative Artificial Intelligence ("AI") which took effect on August 15, 2023. The overarching goals are to protect citizens from potential...more
Even as the "godfathers" of generative AI (Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun) disagree about the potential threat to humanity, policymakers, researchers and leading tech executives are calling for government...more
9/5/2023
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
China ,
Corporate Governance ,
EU ,
Innovation ,
Japan ,
New Legislation ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Technology Sector ,
UK
The number of shareholder proposals made by activist shareholders, votes against management proposals and the number of publicly listed companies facing shareholder proposal continues its upward trend....more
12/27/2022
/ Corporate Counsel ,
Corporate Governance ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Foreign Investment ,
General Meetings ,
Investors ,
Japan ,
Proxy Season ,
Proxy Voting ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Shareholder Activism ,
Shareholder Proposals ,
Shareholders
White & Case Tokyo office's Webinar series is bringing together the Firm's partners and industry experts to explore how digital transformation (or DX) and green energy transformation (or GX) are likely to affect strategic...more
5/24/2022
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Asia ,
Blockchain ,
Climate Action Plan ,
Climate Change ,
Energy Projects ,
Energy Sector ,
Green Energy ,
Japan ,
METI ,
Renewable Energy ,
Supply Chain ,
Technology Sector
Forty-eight Japanese companies received shareholder proposals in the June 2021 general meetings (162 proposals in total). This represents a modest decrease compared to last year, when 55 companies received shareholder...more
11/17/2021
/ Activist Investors ,
Board of Directors ,
Corporate Governance ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Foreign Corporations ,
Green Finance ,
Investment ,
Investors ,
Shareholder Meetings ,
Shareholder Proposals ,
Shareholders ,
Stock Exchange
Enterprises around the world are rapidly incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into existing and new products and processes. This effort is not just to improve such offerings and services, but to achieve a qualitatively...more
8/25/2020
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Board of Directors ,
Compliance ,
Emerging Technologies ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Innovative Technology ,
Japan ,
Machine Learning ,
METI ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Robotics ,
White Papers
While balance sheet proposals saw a slight downturn, COVID-19 and FEFTA appear not to have dampened shareholders' desire to effect change via AGM proposals....more
8/1/2020
/ Activist Investors ,
Annual Meeting ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
FEFTA ,
General Meetings ,
Japan ,
Popular ,
Proxy Season ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Shareholder Proposals ,
Shareholder Votes ,
Shareholders
Big Tech as well as other global companies will likely have to modify their business models -
Japan’s growing e-Commerce market continues to benefit both businesses, which are able to reach more customers and reduce...more
9/16/2019
/ Abuse of Dominance ,
Acquisitions ,
Anti-Monopoly ,
Antitrust Investigations ,
Antitrust Violations ,
B2C ,
Competition ,
Digital Platforms ,
Japan ,
Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) ,
Merger Controls ,
Mergers ,
Public Comment
Another record breaking year for shareholder proposals, including significant support for activists' and other dissident proposals -
The number of shareholder proposals made by activist shareholders, votes against...more
9/14/2019
/ Corporate Governance ,
Director Nominations ,
Executive Compensation ,
Institutional Investors ,
Japan ,
Proxy Season ,
Proxy Voting ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Share Buybacks ,
Shareholder Activism ,
Shareholder Distributions ,
Shareholder Proposals ,
Stock Repurchases
In Tokyo, White & Case gathers leading thinkers on international business and trade policy from around the globe to explore what evolving US policy means for other nations—and to propose effective responses -
In a day marked...more
7/24/2019
/ Bilateral Agreements ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Security ,
Global Economy ,
Japan ,
Popular ,
Technology Sector ,
Trade Relations ,
Trump Administration ,
United States ,
US Trade Policies
On May 21, 2019, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry ("METI"), Japan Fair Trade Commission ("JFTC") and Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications ("MIC") jointly published reports that provide options for...more
6/10/2019
/ Abuse of Dominance ,
Anti-Monopoly ,
Data-Sharing ,
Digital Platforms ,
Dispute Resolution ,
Draft Guidance ,
Japan ,
Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) ,
METI ,
Portability ,
Public Comment ,
Transparency ,
Websites
The Cabinet of Japan submitted a bill (the "Bill") to amend the Anti-Monopoly Act (the "AMA") to the Diet on March 12, 2019. The Bill includes amendments to (i) the method for surcharge calculations, (ii) the leniency system...more
4/22/2019
/ Anti-Monopoly ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Attorney-Client Privilege ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Criminal Penalties ,
Japan ,
Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) ,
Legal Professional Privilege ,
Leniency Programs ,
Obstruction of Justice ,
Proposed Amendments
The Japan Fair Trade Commission's (the "JFTC") major priorities in 2019 are, among others, amendments to the Antimonopoly Act (the "AMA"), research in areas of the digital economy and the labor market, and, of course,...more