Law in Japan : a turning point / edited by Daniel H. Foote.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Foote, Daniel H. (Daniel Harrington), 1954-

Series:

Asian law series ; no. 19.

Asian law series ; no. 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Japan--History.

Law.

Justice, Administration of--Japan--History.

Justice, Administration of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (710 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume explores major developments in Japanese law over the latter half of the twentieth century and looks ahead to the future. Modeled on the classic work Law in Japan: The Legal Order in a Changing Society (1963), edited by Arthur Taylor von Mehren, it features the work of thirty-five leading legal experts on most of the major fields of Japanese law, with special attention to the increasingly important areas of environmental law, health law, intellectual property, and insolvency. The contributors adopt a variety of theoretical approaches, including legal, economic, historical, and socio-legal.As Law and Japan: A Turning Point is the only volume to take inventory of the key areas of Japanese law and their development since the 1960s, it will be an important reference tool and starting point for research on the Japanese legal system. Topics addressed include the legal system (with chapters on legal history, the legal profession, the judiciary, the legislative and political process, and legal education); the individual and the state (with chapters on constitutional law, administrative law, criminal justice, environmental law, and health law); and the economy (with chapters on corporate law, contracts, labor and employment law, antimonopoly law, intellectual property, taxation, and insolvency).Japanese law is in the midst of a watershed period. This book captures the major trends by presenting views on important changes in the field and identifying catalysts for change in the twenty-first century.

Contents:

New knowledge concerning Japan's legal system before 1868, acquired from Japanese sources by Western writers since 1963 / Carl Steenstrup

Criminal trials in the early Meiji-era

with particular reference to the ukagai/shirei system / Nobuhiko Kasumi

Law, culture, and conflict : dispute resolution in postwar Japan / Eric A. Feldman

Development of an adversary system in Japanese civil procedure / Yasuhei Taniguchi

Japanese judiciary : maintaining integrity, autonomy, and the public trust / John O. Haley

Rise of the large Japanese business law firm and its prospects for the future / Yasuharu Nagashima and E. Anthony Zaloom

Legislative dynamic : evidence from the deregulation of financial services in Japan / Yoshirō Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer

Legal education / Kahei Rokumoto

Ongoing changes in the infrastructure of a constitutional system from "bureaucracy" to democracy / Kazuyuki Takahashi

Constitution of Japan : "pacifism" and mass media freedom / Lawrence W. Beer

Development of the concepts of transparency and accountability in Japanese administrative law / Katsuya Uga

Politics of transparency in Japanese administrative law / Tom Ginsburg

Development of criminal law in Japan since 1961/ Kōya Matsuo

Globalization and Japanese criminal law / Joseph L. Hoffmann

Criminal Justice in Japan / David T. Johnson

Litigation, administrative relief, and political settlement for pollution victim compensation : Minamata mercury poisoning after fifty years / Kōichirō Fujikura

Medical error, deception, self-critical analysis, and law's impact : a comparative examination / Robert B. Leflar

Reexamining legal transplants : the director's fiduciary duty in Japanese corporate law / Hideki Kanda and Curtis J. Milhaupt

Japan's "era of contract" / Takashi Uchida and Veronica L. Taylor

From security to mobility? : changing aspects of Japanese dismissal law / Ryūichi Yamakawa

Concentrated power : the paradox of antitrust in Japan / Harry First and Tadashi Shiraishi

Changing roles of the patent office and the courts after Fujitsu/TI / Naoki Koizumi and Toshiko Takenaka

Reform of the Japanese tax system in the latter half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century / Hiroshi Kaneko

Some observations on the Japanese tax system at the beginning of the the twenty-first century / Christopher H. Hanna

Insolvency law for a new century : Japan's revised framework for economic failures / Kent Anderson and Makoto Itō.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780295801353

0295801352

OCLC:

761714460