This Book Takes Stock Of The Most Important Recent Corporate Governance Changes In The Region And The Challenges Still To Be Overcome. The Contributors Pursue This Objective, Not By Describing Laundry Lists Of Legal Reforms And Problems, But By Focused In-depth Legal Analysis On Specific Issues Facing The Separate Systems In The Wake Of - Sometimes In Spite Of - The Voluminous Reforms And Market Changes Of The Past Decade. Written By The Leading Corporate Law Scholars And Policy Advisors In East Asia And Some Of The Most Renowned Scholars Of Comparative Corporate Governance In The United States, The Papers Are Methodologically United In Their Careful Attention To The Impact, And Limitations, Of Legal Reforms On Corporate Governance In East Asia Today. Transformation Of The Management Liability Regime In Japan In The Wake Of The 1993 Revision / Tomotaka Fjjita -- Transplanting Poison Pills In Foreign Soil: Japan's Experiment / Kenichi Osugi -- What Shapes Corporate Law In Japan? / Hideki Kanda -- A Tale Of Three Companies: The Emerging Market For Corporate Control In Korea / Hwa-jin Kim -- Improving Corporate Governance Through Litigation: Derivative Suits And Class Actions In Korea / Ok-rial Song -- The Role Of Judges In Corporate Governance: The Korean Experience / Kon-sik Kim -- Protecting Minority Shareholders In China: A Task For Both Legislation And Enforcement / Xin Tang -- The Role Of Non-legal Institutions In Chinese Corporate Governance / Donald C. Clarke -- The Doctrine That Dared Not Speak Its Name: Anglo-american Fiduciary Duties In China's 2005 Company Law And Case Law Intimations Of Prior Convergence / Nicholas C. Howson -- The Politics Of Corporate Governance In Taiwan / Lawrence S. Liu -- An Analytical Framework For Controlling Minority Shareholders And Its Application To Taiwan / Wen-yeu Wang And Yuan-chi Pang -- Controlling-family Shareholders In Asia: Anchoring Relational Exchange / Ronald J. Gilson -- The Uncertain Value Of Shareholder Suits In Asian Corporate Governance / Michael Klausner. Edited By Hideki Kanda, Kon-sik Kim And Curtis J. Milhaupt. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.