Hideroku Hara

Hideroku Hara (原 秀六; born 1956) is a Japanese legal scholar and professor emeritus at Shiga University.[1] He was granted the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Law[2] for his study of The Legal Theory on the Distribution of the Synergistic Effects caused by Mergers from Waseda University and the highest-ranking qualification called "D-maru-gō" from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.[3] His research covers Commercial Law, Corporate Law and Securities.

Hideroku Hara
Born	1956 (age 64–65) Japan
Nationality	Japan
Education	Waseda University (Doctor of Philosophy in Law) Hitotsubashi University (Master of Laws ・ B.Com.)
Title	legal scholar professor emeritus at Shiga University
Parent(s)	Otohiko Hara (father)
Relatives	Kizo Yasui (granduncle)

Career

During his youth, Hara, as a kindergartener of the kindergarten attached to Club Athletico Paulistano,[4][5][6] was in São Paulo, Brazil, where his father Otohiko Hara worked as an executive with Japanese corporation Nichibo (Unitika). After graduating from Hyogo Prefectural Kobe High School, he was admitted to Hitotsubashi University and received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude from the University in 1980.[4]

Hara enrolled at Hitotsubashi University Graduate School.[4] He became Assistant Professor at Nagoya University of Commerce & Business[7] and was sent to the US as visiting scholar at Harvard Law School[lower-alpha 1] from 1988 to 1990.[4] After he was appointed Associate Professor at Shiga University[lower-alpha 2] in 1995, he was sent to Switzerland as visiting scholar at University of Zurich Law School in 2000.[4] He was promoted to Full Professor in 2001 at Shiga University.[4]

In 2002, Hara was granted the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Law[2] for his study of Gappei Shinajī Bunpai no Hōri [The Legal Theory on the Distribution of Synergistic Effects caused by Mergers] from Waseda University according to the system of Ronbun Hakase (Degree Number : 乙第1679号) along with Mamoru Ozaki (Degree Number : 乙第1669号).[3]

In 2003, he was categorized by MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) in the highest rank called "D-maru-gō professors" who are officially qualified both to supervise Ph.D. students and give lectures in the doctoral course[4].

In 2020, he was appointed professor emeritus in recognition of "distinguished achievement in education or research" [:ja:] as regulated in School Education Act (Japan)[11] by Shiga University.[1][8]

During this period, Hara 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. Hara 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.[4][8]

Kinship

• Great-grandfather - Jin-no-jō Hara Ⅶ (head of old family, Landed property owner, founder & president of Izumi Orimono)
  
• Great-grandmother - Teru Hara (married Jin-no-jō Hara Ⅶ from the Masakis which manages and operates Masaki Art Museum founded by Takayuki Masaki,[12] an art collector in Japan during the post-World War II period)
  
• Great-grandfather on his father's side - Keikichi Yabashi (Landed property owner, 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 prince of Emperor Kanmu, and Minamoto no Tōru, sometimes mentioned as the model for Hikaru Genji in important Japanese literary classic The Tale of Genji, according to the publicized family tree of the Yabashis)[13][14][15]
• Grandfather on his mother's side - Jin-no-jo Hara Ⅷ[16] (born in Osaka, Absentee business owner, Landed property owner, director of Ise Grand Shrine Revered Board)
  
• Grandfather on his father's side - Jiro Yabashi (former Audit & Supervisory member of Juroku Bank)[17]
• Grandmother - Kinu Yabashi (née Yasui, older sister of Kizo Yasui)[18]
• Granduncle - Kizo Yasui[19][20][21][22] (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, awarded Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure)
  
• Father - Otohiko Hara (formerly Otohiko Yabashi. Former President of Unitika trading. Adopted son of Jin-no-jō Hara Ⅷ. One of the first Japanese businesspersons who led 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 - Saburobe Nakai Ⅲ (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 Mitsui Hachirōemon Ⅷ (Takayoshi))[23]
• Great-grandfather of Cousin on his mother's side - Saburobe Nakai Ⅳ[24][25] (Adopted son of the 3rd Saburobe Nakai. Branch family of Mitsui family. Former director of Oji Paper Company)[26]
• 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, assigned to Senior Third Rank)[27][28][29][30]
  
• 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, assigned to Junior Fourth Rank, Lower Grade.[31][32][33][34]

Selected publications

Books

• Kigyō Soshiki Hōmu [Legal Practice on Business Organizations], Zeimu Keiri Kyokai (1997)[35][36] 

ISBN 4419025069

• Gendai Kigyō Torihiki Hō [Modern Laws on Corporate Transactions], Zeimu Keiri Kyokai (1998)[37]

 ISBN 4419030887

• Gappei Shinajī Bunpai no Hōri [The Legal Theory on the Distribution of the Synergistic Effects caused by Mergers], Chuokeizai-Sha (2000)[38][39]

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 of three principles concerning the capital stock system - "], The Hitotsubashi review 97(4) : 557-76 (1987)[40][41]
• "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)[42]
• "Gappei ni okeru「Kyōdō-teki Kōka」no Bunpai" ["The Distribution of Synergistic Effects Resulting from Merger"], Shihō 1994 (56) : 222-27 (1994)[43]
• "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)[44]
• "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)[45][46]
• "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)[47]
• "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)[48]
• "Kaisha Keiei to Torishimariyaku no Risuku" ["Director's Risks in the Management"], The Hikone Ronso 342 : 209-218 (2003)[49]

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See also

• Corporate synergy
• Qualification of professors who can teach graduate students in Japan（in Japanese）

References

Notes

1. Hara's Office used to be located in Pound Hall among Harvard Law School Buildings[8].
2. Hara's great-grandfather Kizo Yasui, father of Kizo Yasui, was nicknamed Kōshō Chōchō［Commercial College Town Mayor］because he was elected Town Mayor of Hikone Town against his will while he was in Tokyo to negotiate the establishment of Hikone Commercial College（now, the Faculty of Economics of Shiga University）and resigned his post of the Town Mayor of Hikone when he saw new-facility construction of Hikone Commercial College[9][10].

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External links

• Hara, Hideroku, 1956 Library of Congress (USA) Linked Data Service
• Hideroku Hara / Successive advisors of Shiga University Soft Tennis Team（in Japanese ）