Hideroku Hara

Hideroku Hara (born 1956) is a Japanese legal scholar and professor emeritus at Shiga University, who received Doctor of Law degree from Waseda University in 2002. His research covers Commercial Law, Corporate Law and Securities.

Hideroku Hara
Born	1956 (age 68–69) Japan
Nationality	Japan
Education	Waseda University (Doctor of Law) Hitotsubashi University (Master of Laws ・ B.Com.)
Title	legal scholar professor emeritus at Shiga University
Father	Otohiko Hara
Relatives	Kizo Yasui (granduncle)

Career

During his youth, Hara attended a local school in São Paulo, Brazil, where his father, Otohiko Hara, worked as an executive with Japanese corporation Nichibo (Unitika). Thereafter, he graduated from Hyogo Prefectural Kobe High School, and received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Hitotsubashi University in 1980.

He enrolled at Hitotsubashi University Graduate School. As soon as he became Assistant Professor at Nagoya University of Commerce & Business, he was sent to the United States of America as Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School from 1988 to 1990. After he was appointed Associate Professor at Shiga University (See List of national universities in Japan) in 1995, he was sent to Switzerland as Visiting Scholar at University of Zurich Law School in 2000. He was promoted to Full Professor in 2001 at Shiga University.

In 2002, he received the degree of Doctor of Law from Waseda University. In 2003, he was categorized by MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) in the highest rank of D maru-go professors [:ja:] that professors in Japan can only be after passing the examination of MEXT and who are qualified both to supervise the Ph.D. students in their researches as the chief examiners of doctoral dissertations and to take charge of lectures in the Doctoral Program. He was both officially commended in 2015 and subsequently appointed professor emeritus in recognition of "distinguished achievement in education or research" [:ja:] as regulated in School Education Law (Japan) by Shiga University

During this period he has consulted for government agencies, law firms and multinational corporations. He was invited to teach at Japanese Central Railway School where the employees of Japanese National Railways (JNR) were trained to move into Ministry of Finance at the time of the reconstruction of JNR to which his granduncle, Kizo Yasui, dedicated himself as the 4th Chairman of Audit Committee. He was also invited to teach at other universities such as Aichi University Law School from the time of the establishment for the specific period of time under the monitoring by MEXT; Konan University Graduate School; Aichi University Graduate School; Shimane University; Meijo University and Chukyo University.

Overseas research

• Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School
• Visiting Scholar at University of Zurich Law School

Social activities

Interviewer, Investigator, Report writer entrusted by Fair Trade Commission

Selected publications

Books

• Kigyō Soshiki Hōmu [Legal Practice on Business Organizations], Zeimu Keiri Kyokai (1997) 

ISBN 4419025069

• Gendai Kigyō Torihiki Hō [Modern Laws on Corporate Transactions], Zeimu Keiri Kyokai (1998)

 ISBN 4419030887

• Gappei Shinajī Bunpai no Hōri [The Legal Theory on the Distribution of Synergistic Effects caused by Mergers], Chuokeizai-Sha (2000)

ISBN 4502781533

Articles

• Haitō Seigen Kitei ni okeru Tōsan Yobō Kinō - Shihon ni kansuru San Gensoku no Saikentō - [The Function of the Regulation Limiting Dividends in Preventing Bankruptcies - Reconsideration ofn three principles concerning the capital stock system - ], The Hitotsubashi review 97(4) : 557-76 (1987)
• Kigyō Shūdan-nai ni okeru futōna Torihiki no Kisei - Renketsu Haitō Seido ni yoru Kisei -[Regulation of Unreasonable Transactions between Corporations in a Corporate Group], Hitotsubashi journal of social sciences 12(2) : 27-46 (1987)
• Gappei ni okeru「Kyōdō-teki Kōka」no Bunpai [The Distribution of Synergistic Effects Resulting from Merger], Shihō 1994 (56) : 222-27 (1994)
• Genshi-Kisei・Haitō-Kisei to Gappei Shinajī no Bunpai [Distribution of Synergistic Effects and Regulations on Stated Capital and Dividends], Shiga Daigaku Keizai Gakubu Kenkyu Nenpo 4 : 107-122 (1997)
• Hasan-Kanzai-Nin no Kengen to Dōsan Tanpo [The Trustee's Avoidance Powers and Article 9 Security Interests], The Hikone Ronso 306 : 141-61 (1997)
• Gappei Hiritsu no Kōsei Kakuho to Keisan-jō no Mondai [Enforcement of Fairness of Exchange Ratio and Problems in Accounting Regulations], The Hikone Ronso 308 : 159-74 (1997)
• Mirikō Keiyaku no Shori ni kansuru Hasan-Kanzai-Nin no Kenri oyobi Gimu [Treatment of Executory Contract under the Bankruptcy Code], The Hikone Ronso 324 : 99-110 (2000)
• Kaisha Keiei to Torishimariyaku no Risuku [Director's Risks in the Management], The Hikone Ronso 342 : 209-218 (2003)

See also

• Commercial Law
• Corporate Law
• Securities

Kinship

• Great-grandfather - Jin-no-jō Hara (head of old family)
  
• Great-grandmother - Teru Hara (married Jin-no-jō Hara from the Masakis which manages and operates Masaki Art Museum founded by Takayuki Masaki, an art collector in Japan during the post-World War II period)
  
• Great-grandfather on his father's side - Keikichi Yabashi (director of Akasaka Bank (now Akasaka Branch of Juroku Bank) [ja] which was formerly Kōsan Company founded by himself. head of the old family which is descended from Emperor Saga, the second son of Emperor Kanmu according to the publicized family tree of the Yabashis)
• Grandfather on his mother's side - Jin-no-jō Hara (former director of Ise Shrine Revered Board)
  
• Grandfather on his father's side - Jirō Yabashi (former Audit & Supervisory member of The Juroku Bank)
• Grandmother - Kinu Yabashi (née Yasui, older sister of Kizo Yasui)
• Granduncle - Kizo Yasui (former vice-president of Mitsui Bank, former president of Mitsui Petrochemicals Industries (now Mitsui Chemicals), former chairman of Toray Industries, former vice-chairman of Nihon Keidanren (Japan Business Federation), former general manager of Tokyo Metropolis of Ise Shrine Revered Board)
  
• Father - Otohiko Hara (formerly Otohiko Yabashi. Former President of Unitika trading. Adopted son of Jin-no-jō Hara. One of the first Japanese businesspersons who lead Nichibo (later Unitika) to the first overseas expansion of Japanese corporation after World War II.)
  
• Great-great-grandfather of Cousin on his mother's side - Sanpei Nakai, the 3rd Saburobe Nakai (head of branch family of Mitsui family, founder of Japan Pulp and Paper Company, the person who were deeply involved in founding Mitsui Bank and Mitsui & Co. and became "Sō-motojime", general manager, of "Ō-motokata", supervisory body, of all Mitsui Business Organisations at the request of the 8th Mitsui Hachirōemon (Takayoshi))
• Great-grandfather of Cousin on his mother's side - the 4th Saburobe Nakai (Adopted son of the 3rd Saburobe Nakai. Branch family of Mitsui family. Former director of Oji Paper Company)
• Cousin of Keikichi Yabashi , great-grandfather - Kenkichi Yabashi (the central figure of the project of building National Diet Building as a bureaucrat of Ministry of Finance)
  
• Distant relative - Ikutaro Tokoro (Formerly Ikutaro Yabashi. Patriot in the closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate who was welcomed to be staff officer of Takasugi Shinsaku and Surgeon who saved the life of Shida Bunta (Marquis Inoue Kaoru) who was severely wounded by the attack of the assassins. Recipient of the court rank of Ju shi-i (Junior Fourth Rank).