Toshiaki Takigawa
Professor Emeritus
Kansai University Faculty of Law
Toshiaki Takigawa is professor emeritus in the Faculty of Law at Kansai University in Osaka, Japan, and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
His research focuses on comparative competition law, with particular attention to differences among Japanese, U.S., and European Union regulatory approaches and the treatment of digital platforms and data-driven markets.
Takigawa previously served as professor of law at Kansai University and, before that, as professor in the division of business law at Toyama University, where he taught competition law and international trade law. Earlier in his career, he was a director at the Japan Fair Trade Commission and then first secretary in the Japanese delegation to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris.
He has also been a Fulbright scholar at George Washington University Law School and a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.
He earned an M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor’s in law from Kyoto University.
