THE
JAPANESE ANNUALOF
INTERNATIONAL LAW

No. 331990

THE INTERNATIONAL LAW ASSOCIATION OF JAPANTHE JAPANESE ANNUAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
No. 33 (1990)

CONTENTS

ArticlesJapanese Salmon Fishery ane the LOS Convention - Between Regimes in
EEZ and on High Seas - ........................................ Naoya Okuwaki"Japanese International Law" in the Postwar Period - Perspectives on theTeaching and Research of International Law in Postwar Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Yasuaki Onuma
Revision of Private International Law in Japan ..................... Junko Torii
Notes
Some Questions of the Legal Status of Foreign Workers in Japan........................................................................ Kentaro Serita
Japanese Tort Law in Comparative Perspective .................... Yoshio Hirai
Protection of Japanese Nationals Abroad Today - The Legal Aspects ......................................................................... Akiko Sagano

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Practice
Annual Review of Japanese Practice in International Law XX (1987-1988)..................................................... Shigeru Oda and Hisashi Owada 109
Activities
Activities of the International Law Association of Japan
Activities of the Office........................................................... 138
Reports of National Committees................................................ 140
Activities of Related Academic Associations inJapan ........................... 154
Judicial Decisions in Japan
1.

Public International Law

Extradition - Double Criminality - Heroin Importation into the United States- Conspiracy in the Federal Laws of the United States - Assistance in the Laws ofJapan.................................................................................. 156
Right to Be Released - Article 9 (3), International Covenant of Civil and Political
Rights - Rejection of Request for Bail According to Article 344, Code of Criminal
Procedure ofJapan - Reasonable Exception to the Right to Be Released.............. 158
Immigration Control- Refugee - Displaced Person - Special Permission to Stayin Japan for Displaced Persons................................................ ........ 160

Immigration Control- Application of the Plaintiff, Rejecting Fingerprinting, forPermission for Re-entry into Japan - Freedom for Re-entry of Foreign Residents inthe Japanese Constitution - Nature of the Administrative Act - Permission forRe-entry by a Foreign Resident - Article 7, International Covenant on Civil andPolitical Rights and the Japanese Fingerprinting System - Constitutionality ofArticle 14, Aliens Registration Act and of the Figerprinting System.................. 166
Immigration Control - Special Immigration Act for the Enforcement of the JapanKorea Agreement on the Legal Status and Treatment of Nationals of Korea Residingin Japan - the Status of Permanent Residence in Japan of Koreans Residing inJapan - "His Own Country!! in Article 12 (4), International Covenant of Civiland Political Rights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Recognition of Government - Capacity of Taiwan to Be a Party in a Foreign
Litigation - Succession of Government - Incomplete or Partial Succession Nature of Property Former Government Had Abroad - Ownership of Chinese
Property Abroad after Japan-China Normalization.................................. 182
II.

Private International Law

Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgment - Judgment Rendered by Munchen Landgericht I - Conditions for Recognition of Foreign Judgment (Art. 200,C. C. P.) - Jurisdiction of the Foreign Court - Proper Law to Determine theValidity of Jurisdictional Agreement - Interpretation of "as long as" Clause Foreign Judgment by Default - Public Order - Guarantee for Reciprocal Recognition.................................................................................... 189
Formal Validity of Marriage - Between Korean Nationals - Judgment Fraudulently Obtained from a Korean Court - Ordre Public - Recognition (Denied)...... 196
Jurisdiction - Action for Damages on Tort - Claimed by Former Workers of aJapanese Company Which Is in the Process of Voluntary Dissolution - Against aForeign Parent Company - Dissolution Alleged to Be a Tort - Forum Loci Delicti
Commissi.............................................................................. 199
Jurisdiction - Action for a Negative Declaration of Liability to Pay Damages Sought by aJapanese Company against an American Company - Breach of Contact- Tort - Forum Loci Delicti Commissi - Lis Alihi Pendens...................... 202
Jurisdiction - Action for a Negative Declaration of Liability to Pay Damages Sought by a Japanese Publishing Company against a Japanese Living Abroad Libel Allegedly Committed by the Company Which Sold Its Magazines in California
Where the Plaintiff Lives - Publication in Japan - Forum Loci Delicti Commissi(Denied)............................................................................... 206
Effect of Foreign Judgment - Divorce between Japanese Spouses - Pronounced by a
Californian Court - Service by Mail from Californian Court and Article 200 (2),Code of Civil Procedure - Recognition (Denied)..................................... 208

Chronology of Japanese Foreign Affairs..............................................

211

Chronological List of Treaties and Other International Agreements Concluded
by Japan in 1989....................................................................... 218
Documents:
AUSTRIA
1. Agreement between Japan and the Republic of Austria for Air
Services......................... .............................. .... .... .. .. .... 220
CHINA
2. Agreement between Japan and the People's Republic of China Concerning the Encouragement and Reciprocal Protection of Investment. 228
INDIA
3. Convention between the Government of Japan and the Governmentof the Republic of India for the Avoidance of Double Taxation andthe Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income.... 236
TURKEY
4. Agreement between Japan and the Republic of Turkey for Air
Services....................................................................... 254
Book Reviews................................ ........ .......... ................ .. .... ...

263

List of Members.........................................................................

275