Who Rules Japan? [electronic resource] : Popular Participation in the Japanese Legal Process

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolff, Leon.

Contributor:

Nottage, Luke.

Anderson, Kent.

Edward Elgar Publishing.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Justice, Administration of--Citizen participation--Japan.

Justice, Administration of.

Law--Political aspects--Japan.

Law.

Law reform--Japan.

Law reform.

Power (Social sciences).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Pub. Ltd., 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The dramatic growth of the Japanese economy in the postwar period, and its meltdown in the 1990s, has attracted sustained interest in the power dynamics underlying the management of Japan's administrative state. Scholars and commentators have long debated over who wields power in Japan, asking the fundamental question: who really governs Japan? This important volume revisits this question by turning its attention to the regulation and design of the Japanese legal system. With essays covering the new lay-judge system in Japanese criminal trials, labour dispute resolution panels, prison policy,

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction: who rules Japan?; 2. Judging Japan's new criminal trials: early returns from 2009; 3. Popular participation in labour law: the new labour dispute resolution tribunal; 4. In defence of Japan: government lawyers and judicial system reforms; 5. Administering welfare in an ageing society; 6. Reforming Japanese corrections: catalysts and conundrums; 7. Competition law in Japan: the rise of private enforcement by litigious reformers; 8. When Japanese law goes pop; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-78471-749-5