Takashi Kubota

Takashi Kubota obtained LLB and LLM degree from University of Tokyo in 1990 and 1993, LLM degree from Harvard Law School in 1996, and Ph.D. degree from Osaka University in 2003. In 1990, he joined the Bank of Japan, the central bank, and served as as an economist and legal advisor. In 1998, he shifted to academics and has been dedicated to researching and teaching in Nagoya University (1998-2004) and Waseda University (2004-current). He edited and wrote English books such as “Cyberlaw for Global E-Business: Finance, Payment and Dispute Resolution,” Information Science Reference (2007), and Japanese books such as “Practice, policy and law of blockchain,” Chuokeizai-sha Inc. (2018), and “Lectures of International Business Law, 3rd Edition,” Chuokeizai-sha Inc. (2021).

Publications

A Proposal for Enhancing the Security and Privacy of Digital Currencies
A Proposal for Enhancing the Security and Privacy of Digital Currencies
Kazuo Takaragi, Takashi Kubota. © 2023. 29 pages.
Regarding digital currencies, the authors focus on 1) the security issues with the advent of quantum computers and 2) the privacy issues in relation with CBDC's wider...
IT Development and the Separation of Banking and Commerce: Comparative Perspectives of the U.S. and Japan
IT Development and the Separation of Banking and Commerce: Comparative Perspectives of the U.S. and Japan
Takashi Kubota. © 2009. 14 pages.
Unlike the UK, Germany, France, and some major countries that permit entries from banking to commerce and vice versa (“two-way” regulation), the United States and Japan have...
Cyberlaw for Global E-business: Finance, Payments and Dispute Resolution
Cyberlaw for Global E-business: Finance, Payments and Dispute Resolution
Takashi Kubota. © 2008. 318 pages.
As the various types of global e-business grow rapidly, the need to establish adequate cyberlaws is increased. Reformation of domestic and global laws has been underway; however...
IT Development and the Separation of Banking and Commerce: Comparative Perspectives of the U.S. and Japan
IT Development and the Separation of Banking and Commerce: Comparative Perspectives of the U.S. and Japan
Takashi Kubota. © 2008. 14 pages.
Unlike the UK, Germany, France and some major countries that permit entries from banking to commerce and vice versa (“two-way” regulation), the United States and Japan have...
Legal Concerns Against Auctions and Securities Conventions: A Japanese Perspective
Legal Concerns Against Auctions and Securities Conventions: A Japanese Perspective
Takashi Kubota. © 2006. 13 pages.
This chapter introduces the two newly emerging issues in the C2C and B2B area in the Japanese IT laws: (a) anti-fraud measures in Internet auctions and (b) treatment of the Hague...