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Trusts in Japan

• Structure of Trust Banks
  • Trust objectives, Trust property
  • Settlor, Trustee, Beneficiary
  • Trust function
• History
  • Origins of trusts in Japan and the enactment of the Trust Act and the Trust Business Act
  • Development and integration of trust companies
  • Post World War II high growth and Trust Banks
  • Establishment of foreign-owned trust banks and the Japanese version of the "Big Bang" financial deregulation
  • 2004 amendments to the Trust Business Act
  • 2006 amendments to the Trust Act
• Products
  • Types of trusts
  • Money trusts & Loan trusts
  • Investment trusts
  • Family trusts·Inheritance - related operations
  • Real estate trusts·Real estate business
  • Pension trusts
    • Employees' pension fund trust
    • Defined benefits type corporate pensions trusts
      • Contract-type corporate pension trusts
      • Fund-type corporate pension trust
    • Defined contribution pension
      • Defined contribution pension (corporate type)
      • Defined contribution pension (individual type)
    • Employee retirement benefit trust
  • Asset formation trusts
  • Asset securitization type trust(monetary claims trusts, real estate trusts)
  • Securities trusts
  • Securities trusts (specified money trusts, fund trusts)
  • Stock Transfer Agencies
  • Charitable trusts
  • Specified donor trusts
  • Product expectations
    • Specified planned-giving trusts
    • Legal guardianship support trusts
    • Qualified educational fund giving trusts
    • Marriage and childcare support trusts
    • Employee stock ownership plan trusts
    • Testamentary substitute trusts/ Successive life interest trusts
    • Trusts With Certificates of Beneficial Interests
    • Security trusts
    • Emission credits trusts
    • Intellectual property rights trusts
    • Trust-type rights plan
• Entities responsible for trusts
  • Trust Banks
  • Expansion of trust managers under the 2004 amendments to the Trust Business Act
  • Over-the-counter operations for trust services
• Main legislation pertaining to trusts
  • Major points of Trust Act Amendments (2006)
  • Main points of the Trust Business Act Amendment (2004, 2006)

The Association

• Chairman's message
  • Chairman's message backnumber
    • Chairman's message (April 15, 2015)
    • Chairman's message (April 16, 2014)
    • Chairman's message (April 15, 2013)
• Overview
  • Objective, functions and history
  • Main activities
    • Research and statistics
    • Public relations
    • Consultation services
    • Education activities
    • Request and proposal
    • Compliance
• Administrative structure and location
• Board of Directors
• Member companies

Statistics

• Current state of trusts under management
• Compendium of trust data

Terms of use

Japanese