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Posts

• announcements

  • So Saito of our firm has been ranked as a lawyer in the FinTech field 2021 by Chambers and Partner.
  • Curvegrid Inc. and So & Sato Join Forces

• corporate

  • Virtual Annual General Meetings in Japan

• digital assets

  • ‘Play to Earn’ under Japanese Laws
  • Key Building Blocks of DeFi
  • DeFi Derivatives – A brief analysis of Perpetual Futures
  • PoS and Yield Farming
  • Yield Farming and Liquidity Mining from a Regulatory Perspective in Japan
  • New Japanese Crypto Regulations
  • Digital Assets in Japan
  • Hot wallets, non-custodian exchanges, and smart solutions
  • Security Token Offerings in Japan
  • Libra, Maker’s Dai and other Stable Coins under Japanese Laws
  • Stable Coins under Japanese Laws
  • New Crypto Regulations of Japan
  • Guidance Note on the Japanese Virtual Currency Legislation
  • Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) under Japanese laws
  • SEC ICO Warning (Dec 2017)

• employment

  • Impacts upon enforcement of the Act concerning Work Style Reform

• FDI

  • The Latest Amendments of the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act　-Update on March 3rd

• funds

  • Investment Funds: Registration, notification and disclosure requirements at a glance
  • Funds Regulations in Japan

• Uncategorized

  • “Are AI police and AI judges on the way?” – The turning point between a surveillance society and a fair society
  • Sustainability and Web3: Can Web3 become a sustainable social infrastructure?
  • Digital Asset Treasury Strategies and Legal Issues – Practical Considerations for Japanese Companies
  • AI Agents, Web3 AI Agents, and Japanese Law
  • Crypto Payments and Japanese Law (2nd Edition)
  • Osaka Expo: The legal issues of flying cars
  • Thoughts from the Gundam Pavilion at the Osaka Expo: Who would be the judge if a murder were to occur in an orbital elevator?
  • ChatGPT, Generative AI and Finance
  • Quantum Technology and Japanese Law
  • Is the Android ‘Me’ the Same Person?- Future Legal Systems Contemplated at Osaka Kansai Expo 2025
  • Babylon, Bitcoin Staking Mechanism and Japanese Law
  • Staking/Restaking under Japanese Law
  • Crypto Regulations in Japan 2024
  • Restaking Services such as EigenLayer and Japanese Law
  • DePIN and Japanese Law
  • DeFi and the Law – LIDO and Liquid Staking under Japanese Law
  • RWA Tokens under Japanese Law
  • DAO Token Sales under Japanese Laws
  • Blockchain Games Regulations and the Analysis Concerning Crypto Assets Laws, Gaming Law, and Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations
  • Decentralized Autonomous Organization under Japanese Law
  • Japanese Regulations on Crypto Fund
  • Non-Fungible Tokens, Play-to-Earn Scholarships, and Yield Guild Games under Japanese Laws
  • ‘Same business, same risk, same regulation’​ and the idea of technology-neutral regulation in the context of crypto
  • NFTs – Common Use Cases and Legal Considerations
  • NFTs: An overview of the current state in Japan, the legal and regulatory environment, and the latest guidelines by the JCBA and BCA
  • The FATF and DeFi
  • Embedded Finance under Japanese Law
  • Buyer Beware – Digital Art and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT)
  • Same business, same risks, same rules – A still valid concept?

Team

• So Saito
• Yuki Sato
• Chiho Saito
• Nobuhiro Funakushi
• Shuhei Tsudo
• Yu Mizushima
• Shimpei Asano
• Kazuki Imanari
• Masahiro Ohba
• Changsoo Ahn
• Taiki Hashimoto
• Hiroki Sato 
• Arifumi Sunada
• William T. Gillespie
• Miruku Araki
• Yurie Hasegawa
• Charlotte Drews
• Joerg Schmidt
• Kensuke Kobayashi