Last Updated: November 30, 2011


  • HOBBIES:
      Travel, Music (R&B, Soul, Pops), Play (Musicals), Amateur Radio (Callsign: JI6CUK, JA1BPA)

  • QUALIFICATIONS:
      Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Finance from the University of London in the UK
      Master of Business Administration (MBA) with Distinction from INSEAD in France
      Chartered Member of The Security Analysts Association of Japan (CMA)
      1st Class Amateur Radio Licensee of Japan

  • LANGUAGES:
      Japanese (mother tongue), English French (fluent), Russian Spanish (only basic)

  • PUBLICATIONS:
      "Globetrotters --Mauritius and Reunion Is.--" (a tourists' guidebook in Japanaese, Diamond Big Inc., 1991, ISBN: 4-478-03231-9)

      "Survival of Japanese Personnel Management in the "New-Breed" Age" (Euro-Asia Centre, INSEAD, 1991)

      "Facing Up to the Cost of Equity: Changing Behaviour of Japanese Companies",  Chapter 11 of  "Finance and the International Economy: 6" (Oxford University Press, 1992, ISBN: 0-19-828796-8)

      "Post-Bubble Corporate Finance in Japan" (Kawakami Foundation, the Industrial Bank of Japan, Award Winning Essays Collection, 1993)



      "MBA Game Theory" (Diamond Inc., 1999, ISBN: 4-478-37242-X)
      Became No. 8 best-selling business book at Maruzen Bookstore in Tokyo in the week of January 5, 2000.


      "Management Analysis and Decision Making by Using Game Theory," "Fujitsu Management Review," No. 207, 2000 Summer (Fujitsu Institute of Management)

      "Making Decisions Based on Game Theory," "Diamond Harvard Business Review," January 2002, (Diamond Inc.)


      "Key Issues of Business Decision Making Using Game Theory" "Weekly Diamond," April 6, 2002, (Diamond Inc.)

      "Game Theory for Becoming an Excellent Decision Maker," (series article 1) "Think!," Spring 2002, (Toyo Keizai Inc., 2002, ISBN: 4-492-83000-6)

      "Game Theory for Becoming an Excellent Decision Maker," (series article 2) "Think!," Summer 2002, (Toyo Keizai Inc., 2002, ISBN: 4-492-83001-4)

      "Game Theory for Becoming an Excellent Decision Maker," (series article 3) "Think!," Autumn 2002, (Toyo Keizai Inc., 2002, ISBN: 4-492-83002-2)

      "Game Theory for Becoming an Excellent Decision Maker," (series article 4) "Think!," Winter 2002, (Toyo Keizai Inc., 2003, ISBN: 4-492-83003-0)

      "M&A and Corporate Performance," "Security Analysts Journal," December 2002, (Security Analysts Association of Japan)

      "Hints about Negotiation Drawn from Game Theory: The Case of M&A Negotiation," "Hitotsubashi Business Review, " Spring 2003, (Toyo Keizai Inc., 2003, ISBN: 4-492-82012-4)

      "Corporate Valuation and Cash Flow: In Search of Theoretical Relationship between Accounting and Finance," (with Norimitsu Kodabashi) "Kaikei (Accounting)," Vol. 164 No.2 (Moriyama Shoten, 2003)

      "Banking in Japan: Will Too Big to Fail Prevail?"   (with Adrian van Rixtel, Yupana Wiwattanakantang, and Toshiyuki Souma) Chapter 12 of  "Too Big to Fail: Policies and Practices in Government Bailouts" (Praeger Publishers, 2004, ISBN: 1-56720-621-2)

      "New Development in Hostile Takeover Market in Japan: A Case of TOB for Sotoh and Yushiro Chemical Industry," "Security Analysts Journal," October 2004 (Security Analysts Association of Japan)

      "Valuation in Practice"   (Diamond Inc., 2004, ISBN: 4-478-47072-3)

      "Survey of Economic Studies on Control Premium: A Practitioner's Guide to How to Deal with Control Premium," "Security Analysts Journal," July 2005 (Security Analysts Association of Japan)

      "Effect of a Hostile Takeover on the Operating Performance of a Target Firm" "Weekly Kinyuu Zaisei Jijo," January 16, 2006, (Kinzai Institute for Financial Affairs, Inc.)

      "A Hostile Takeover and Target's Corporate Performance: Case of Target Firms of M&A Corporation," Chapter 5 of Study Group Report of M&A and Corporate Management,  March 2007,  Japan Center for Economic Research

      "Long-Term Performance Following Mergers of Japanese Companies: The Effect of Diversification and Affiliation,"   "Pacific-Basin Finance Journal" 15-2, pp. 154-172, April 2007, Elsevier  (Co-authored with Timothy A. Kruse, Kwanwoo Park, and Hun Park)   Abstract is here.

      "A Hostile Takeover and Target's Corporate Performance,"   Chapter 5 of Arai, Tomio, Ed.,  "Examining Hostile Takeovers in Japan" (Nikkei Book, 2007, ISBN: 978-4-532-35274-5)

      "Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A),"   Chapter 1 of The Security Analysts Association of Japan, Ed.,  "Level II Textbook for CMA (Chartered Member of the Security Analysts Association of Japan), Corporate Finance 3," (The Security Analysts Association of Japan, 2007)

      "Why Should Discounted Tender Offer Bids Be Successful in Japan?"   "Weekly Kinyuu Zaisei Jijo," September 17, 2007, (Kinzai Institute for Financial Affairs, Inc.)

      "Has the Threat of a Takeover Improved the Management of Target Firms? An Analysis of Firms in which M&A Consulting, Japan's First Hostile Bidder, Acquired Stakes,"   "Corporate Ownership and Control" 7-2, pp. 137-145, December 2009, Virtus InterPress  (Co-authored with Timothy A. Kruse)   Index of the issue of the Journal is here.

      "Bidder and Target Valuation and Method of Payment of M&As in Japan: Evidence against the Misvaluation-Driven Transactions"   "Corporate Ownership and Control"  8-3, pp. 406-416, June 2011, Virtus InterPress  (Co-authored with Shinya Hanamura and Kotaro Inoue)   Index of the issue of the Journal is here.


  • TRANSLATION WORKS:

      "Beyond Greed and Fear"   by Hersh Shefrin, Japanese Translation (Toyo Keizai Inc., 2005, ISBN: 4-492-65348-1)

      "Business Statistics" (6th edition)   by Amir D. Aczel and Jayavel Sounderpandian, Japanese Translation (Diamond Inc., 2007, ISBN: 978-4-478-47092-3, -47093-0)

      Translation for "Diamond Harvard Business" (Japanese version of "Harvard Business Review") January 1994, May 1994, January 1996, March 1997, September 1997 and September 2000

    Effect of Activist Fund (Steel Partners and MAC) Ownership on the Corporate Performance





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