Research keywords (3):
Economic Law
, Antimonopoly law
, competition law
Research theme for competitive and other funds (14):
2024 - 2029 Transcending Borders: Crafting a Global Model Competition Law based on Japan’s Antimonopoly Database
2022 - 2027 Designing next generation regulations to address multidimensional risks caused by the expansion of digital platforms
2024 - 2024 Japan/UK Network for Fair Trading in Entertainment and Performing Arts and Creative Industries
2024 - 2024 Japan/UK Initiative for Fair Trading in Entertainment and Creative Industries
2021 - 2024 Restructuring the Concept of "Abusing Superior Bargaining Position": A Comparative Study of Competition Law in Japan and Taiwan
2017 - 2022 Innovation and Platforms: Reinventing Competition Policy
2015 - 2019 Unfair Trading Practices and Economic Laws: Comparative Study of Japan and Europe
2011 - 2015 Competition and consumer protection in the global food market
2009 - 2010 Publication grant for ''Standard Setting and the Law"
2006 - 2007 Technical Standards: Competition Policy and Antimonopoly Law
2003 - 2004 Oversea Research Aid (long-term)
2002 - 2003 Nitobe Fellowship
2000 - 2002 Trade Competition, and Regulation in Asia - Developed and Developing Countries'Viewpoints.
1998 - 1999 Laws and Regulations on Standardisation
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Papers (44):
Masako Wakui. Keizaiho dokusenkinshi ho ni okeru shohisha [Consumers in the Economic and Antimonopoly Law]. Gendai Shohisha ho [Modern Consumer Law]. 2023. 60. 125-133
Masako Wakui. Digital platform ni yoru shijo no soshikika to keizai hou (The Influence of Dominant Digital Platforms on the Digital Marketplace and Economic Law). NBL. 2023. 1248. 10-16
Masako Wakui. Digital platform to contents torihiki: Hosyu ryokinn no tekiseika ni muketa junbiteki kousatsu (Towards fair remuneration for platform contents creators). in Akira Negishi et al (eds.) Platform to innovation wo meguru aratana kyoso seisakuno kochiku (Regenerating competition policies in view of platform and innovation). 2023. 85-108
Masako Wakui. Corruption and Conflicts of Interest in the Pharmaceutical Market: Regulation of Pharmaceutical Companies’ Gift-giving Practices. In Negishi Akira and others (eds), Competition Law and Policy in the Japanese Pharmaceutical Sector (Springer). 2022. 69-87
Masako Wakui. [JP] Newspapers, Digital Platforms and Competition. in Kazuhiro Tsuchida and others (eds) Gendai keizaiho no kadai to riron. 2022. 445-461
Masako Wakui. The Smartphone Act: Japan’s new legislation that regulates Google and Apple. Journal of European Competition Law & Practice. 2025
Claudio Lombardi, Masako Wakui. News media and digital platforms: Recent developments to promote competition and fair-trade practices overseas. Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) Competition Policy Research Centre (CPRC) CPDP98-J. 2024. 1-129
Masako Wakui. [JP] Ralse Tokyo High Court Judgement of 3 March 2021. Keizaiho Hanrei Shinketsu 100 sen [Economic law 100 selected cases] (3rd edn). 2024. 268. 81-82
Masako Wakui. Hodo kikan to digital platform (Press and Digital Platform). Horitsu Jiho. 2024. 96. 5. 45-50
Masako Wakui. Rodosha to keizai ho: kinji no hatten to nokoru kadai [Workers and the economic law: recent developments and unsolved issues]]. Kosei Torihiki. 2023. 878. 4-9
Comparative Competition Law
World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore 2023 ISBN:981127925X
[JP] Progress o Digital Society and Legal Design
Shojihmu, Tokyo 2023 ISBN:9784785730499
Platform to innovation wo meguru aratana kyoso seisakuno kochiku (Regenerating competition policies in view of platform and innovation)
Shojihomu 2023 ISBN:9784785730376
The Cambridge Handbook of Labor in Competition Law
Cambridge University Press 2022
The Hiroshima effect: Japan’s Agile and Multistakeholder approach
(Future of AI Governance: Sovereignty and Interoperability 2024)
AI wo meguru kyoso to keizaiho [AI: Competition and Economic Law]
(Japan Association of International Economic Law Annual Conference 2024)
Abusive Practices in Creative Industries: Japan
(Abusive Practices in Creative Industries - Aberdeen Roundtable 2024)
A system to rank the values of competition law and its applicability in Japan
(19th Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA) Annual Conference 2024 in Wurzburg 2024)
[JP] Newsmedia and digital platform: towards the fairer competition environment and trading relationships
(The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) Competition Policy Research Centre (CPRC) Discussion Paper Final Workshop 2024)
2023/07 - 現在 The Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA) Extended Board Member
2023/06 - 現在 Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Monitoring Meeting of Improving Transparency and Fairness of Digital Platforms
2019/11 - 現在 Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA) Asian Chapter Co-Director
2019/10 - 現在 Journal of Antitrust Enforcement - Advisory Board Member
2008/10 - 現在 Japan Association of Economic Law Board Member
2020/07 - 2021/03 Japan Fair Trade Commission The Study Group on Competition Policy in Digital Markets
2017/10 - 2018/03 Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Expert group on the competitive electricity and gas market
2016/04 - 2018/03 Japan Fair Trade Commission Competition Research Centre Chief Researcher
2017/07 - 2018/02 Japan Fair Trade Commission Competition Policy Research Centre Study Group on Human Resource and Competition Policy
2016/03 - 2018/02 Osaka Prefecture Labour Relations Commission Commissioner
2017/01 - 2017/06 Japan Fair Trade Commission, Competition Policy Research Centre Study Group on Data and Competition Policy
2015/04 - 2016/03 Japan Fair Trade Commission Competition Policy Research Centre Visiting Researcher
2009/03 - 2015/01 Information and Communications Council, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication Interconnection Policy Committee
2013/04 - 2014/03 Japan Fair Trade Commission Competition Policy Research Centre Visiting Researcher
2005/11 - 2007/11 Telecommunications Dispute Settlement Commission, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Special Commissioner
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Awards (3):
2012/01 - Osumi Kenichiro Award
2011/10 - Mobile Communication Fund Docomo Mobile science prizes Honorable Mention
2001/07 - Fair Trade Institute Masatoshi Yokota Memorial Award
Association Membership(s) (4):
Japan Association for Consumer. Law
, The Japan Association of International Economic Law
, THE JAPAN ASSOCIATION OF ECONOMIC LAW
, JAPAN ASSOCIATION OF INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY LAW