Competition Law and Policy in the Japanese Pharmaceutical Sector

Preface.- PART I HEALTHCARE AND PHARMACEUTICALS: INNOVATION AND REGULATION IN JAPAN.- Regulation and Competition in the Pharmaceutical Industry in Japan.- Competition and Cooperation: Building a Sustainable Healthcare Delivery System in a Society with a Declining Population.- Drug Regulation in Japan.- Collaboration between the Patent System and Pharmaceutical Regulations for Drug-discovery Innovation in Japan.- Corruption and Conflicts of Interest in the Pharmaceutical Market: Regulation of Pharmaceutical Companies' Gift-giving Practices .- PART II   THE JAPANESE ANTIMONOPOLY ACT AND ITS RELATION TO THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY.- Antimonopoly Act and Its Application to the Pharmaceutical Industry in Japan.- Horizontal Cooperation and Alliances amongst Pharmaceutical Companies and the Japanese Antimonopoly Act.- Merger Regulations in the Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry.- Pay-for-delay Agreements in Japan.- No Challenge Clauses in the Pharmaceutical Industry in Japan.- Will Authorised Biologics deter Biosimilars? -Utilising JFTC's expertise in drug pricing.- PART III AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY AND TRADE PRACTICES IN JAPAN.- The Pharmaceutical Industry in Japan: A History of Its Development.- Trade Practices in the Japanese Pharmaceutical Market: A Simulation Analysis of Improvement Policies

Akira Negishi is a Professor Emeritus of Kobe University, where he was the dean of the faculty of law, and Konan University where he was a vice president. At these institutions he taught competition, consumer and other economic laws. He has published numerous scholarly books, articles and commentaries and led a number of research projects and academic groups in these fields. Professor Negishi was also the president of the Japan Association of Economic Law and the Japan Association of International Economic Law, the chair of the Telecommunication Business Subcommittee, the Information Communication Council, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) and the Antimonopoly Forum. He served as a counsellor for the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC), a member of the Advisory Panel on Basic Issues Regarding the Antimonopoly Act, and as the bar examiner for the Ministry of Justice. He has chaired countless expert and advisory groups at the JFTC, MIC and the Ministry of Economy,Trade and Industry. He became a member of the Japan Academy, an honorary organisation that accords special recognition to researchers with eminent academic and scientific achievements in 2018.




Masako Wakui is a professor at the Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University and a visiting scholar at Newcastle University, UK. She has previously taught at Osaka City University and Rikkyo University. Her fields are competition law and policy. She has published books and articles on these subjects. She has served as a chief researcher for the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) Competition Policy Research Centre, as a commissioner at the Osaka Prefecture Labour Relations Commission and as a member of the Interconnection Policy Committee, the Information and Communications Council, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication and various other advisory and study groups at the JFTC and other administrative bodies. Currently, Dr Wakui is a board member of the Japan