THE
JAPANESE ANNUALOF

INTERNATIONAL LAW

No. 47
2004

THE INTERNATIONAL LAW ASSOCIATION OF JAPANTHE]APANESE ANNUAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
No.47 (2004)
CONTENTS

ArticlesImplementing International Refugee Law through a National Legal System:
Practice in Japan ............................................................... ...... Shttichi Furuya

1

A New or Pathological Tendency in the International Regulation of Sovereign
States - From the Perspective of the International Regulation of Whaling -............................................................................................ .Atsttko Kanehara

34

japan's New Emergency Legislation and International Humanitarian Law.............................................................................................. .Akira Mayama

69

International Commercial Arbitration under the New Arbitration Law ofJapan ...................................................... ........................... Shunichiro Nakano

96

The Japanese Digest of International Law
Legal Interests of Japan that are Reflected in the Recent Japanese Domestic
Measures Taken Concerning Its Coastal Water Zones and Port Areas (1999-2004) .................................................................................... Atsttko Kanehara 119
Legal Interests to be Protected in Territorial Sea and Inland Sea - Prevention 0/illegal Entry into and Landings on Territory - Combating International Terriorism- Coastal and Water's Edge Guarding - LalU En/orcement or Police Measures
and National Seettrity Strategy - Safety 0/ Maritime Shipping
Legal Issues Concerning Japan's Participation in United Nations PeaceKeeping Operations (1991-2003) ............................................ .Ryo Yamamoto l36

Basic Characteristics 0/ UN Peace-Keeping Operations - Distinction among UN
Forces, Coalition Forces and UN Peace-Keeping Operations - Distinction between
UN Peace-Keeping Operations and Peace-Keeping Forces - Relationship between
International Law and Domestic Law - Constitutionality 0/ the Dispatch 0/Japan
Self-Defense Forces to UN Peace-Keeping Operations - Article 9 0/ the Constitution
0/Japan and Use 0/ Force by Japan Sell-Defense Forces - Difference between Use 0/Force and Use 0/ Weapons by Japan Sell-Defense Forces - Relationship between
National Command and UN Command over Units 0/Japan Self-De/eme Forces
Book Reviews

21-seiki no Kokmai Kika: Kadai to Tenbo (International Organizations in the
21 st Century - Problems and Prospects: Essays in Honor of Professor
Shigeru Kozai on His Seventieth Birthday). Edited by Nisuke Ando, Osamu
Nakamura and Ryuichi Ida ...................................................... ...... Tetsua Sato 168CONTENTS

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Chiklljo Chllkai Kokmeki-ho (Commentary on tbe National Law) by Sboichi
Kidana ...... " ... "" ................ "" .. " ... ""."""""".""" ........... ,"Akihiko Klllzitolllo 171}illkm Ho to }indo Ho no Shimeiki: Takemoto JdasaJilki Sensei TSlIito Killen
Ronbllllshtt (The New Century of Human Rights Law and Humanitarian Law:
Essays in Memory of the Late Professor Masayuki Takemoto). Edited by
Hisakazu Fujita, Yosbiro Matsui and Sbigeki Sakamoto """.".Maki NishillllZi 175}ollyakllhoti no RiroJl to }issai (Theory and Practice of tbe Law of Treaties), byShigeki Sakamoto ...................................................... ................. Temo KomoTi 178
Kokmaijinkenho to Mainoriti 770 Chi'i (Minorities under International Law of
Human Rights), by Kim Dong-hoon" ................. " ............ "Toshzaki Sonohara 182
KokllSai }inken no Itsudatslt Fltkanolf-sei: Kinky" }ilai ga TeraSlI lloh. Kokka.
Kojin (Nonderogability of International Human Rights: Law, States, andIndividuals in the Light of State of Emergency), by Koji Teraya...................................................... ............................................ .Kaom Obata 184
KokllSai Rippoll - Kokusaiho 770 HOligenTon (International Law-Making: Theoryon Sources oflnternational Law), by Shinya Murase ." .......... "H isakazlI Fujita 186
Kokusaishakai no H okozo: SOIlO Rekishi to Genjyo (The Legal Structure of International
Society - Its History and Present Situation-). Gendaikokusaiho ni okeru }inken toHeiwa no Hosyo (The Guarantee of Human Rights and Peace in PresentInternational law). Edited by Haruyuki Yamate and Shigeru Kozai...................................................... .......................................... Kazuya Hirobe 191
Senso no Ho kaTa Heiwa no Ho e: Senkannki Amerika no KokllSaihohgakltSha(Forgotten Crusade: The American Scholars of International Law in theInterwar Period), by Hatsue Shinohara ......................... """ .. H iTokazlt Miyano 194
Trilateral Perspectives on International Legal Issues: Conflict and Coherence. Editedby Chi Carmody, Yuji Iwasawa and Sylvia Rhodes ........ " .. " ........ Toshiya Ueki 197
Judical Decisions in Japan
1. Public International Law
Tokyo High Court, Decision, February 18, 2003 .......... "" .................. " .......... ,,. 200
The Convention Relating to the Statm of Refllgees - Recognition of Refugees Article 6] -2 (2) [Sixty-day Rule] of the Immigration Corztrol and Refugee
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Tokyo High Court, Decision, July 22, 2003 ..................................................... . 202
Article 2( 1) of the Agreement between japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) Article 2(3) of the Agreement between japan and the ROK - Article 1 of the Law
Concerning the Measures for the Property of ROK, etc., in Order to enforce Article 2 ofthe Agreement between japan and the ROK - Renunciation of Claims by Treatyand Its Effectiveness

Nagoya District Court, Decision, September 25, 2003 .................................... .. 204
The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees - Recognition of Refugee Statt/s- Article 61-2(2) and Its Proviso of the Immigration Control and Refugee
Recognition Act [Sixty-day Rule] - The Principle of Non-refoulement

Tokyo District Court, Decision, September 29, 2003 ........................................ . 206
The Hague Convention on Land Warfare - Protocol for the Prohibition of the Usein War of Asphyxiating, PoisonotlS or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods ofWarfare (Geneva Protocol) - Convention on the Prohibition of the Development,Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction Article 1 of the State Redress Law - Liability for Compensation by the State for
Abandonment of Poison Gases

II. Private International Law
Supreme Court, Judgment, February 27, 2003 ...................... ............................ 209
Trademark Rights - Claim of Infringement - Parallel Importing - Lackof Illegality
Supreme Court, Judgment, March 27, 2003 ...................................................... 211
Reasonable Causation - Letter of Credit - Claim for Damages Bank - Modification of Conditions - Amendment - Shippmg Date

Advising

Supreme Court, Judgment, June 12,2003 ......................................................... 214
Parents and Child - Paternity - Acknowledgment by Biological Father Nationality - PreSttmption of Legitimacy

Tokyo High Court, Judgment, May 28,2003 .................................................... 218
Copyright - Substantive Characterization of Contract tinder the Governing SpaniJh
Law - Spanish cession - CeSJion in Trmt in Spanish Law - Internal
Relationship - External Relationship - Mandate - Civil Code of Spain LaUJ Applicable to Obligation - LaUJ Applicable to Transfer of QUaJi-property
Rights - Law Applicable to Copyright - lex loci protectionis (LaUJ of theCountry in which Protection Is Claimed) - the Berne Convention for the Protectionof Literary and ArtiJti"' Works - the Paris Convention - japanese Law ofCopyright - 0ppoJability - Registration

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Chronological List of Treaties and Other International Agreements
Concluded by Japan in 2003 .... ........ ..... .... .............. ... ..................... ........... 228
Documents
I. Treaties
EUROPEAN COMMINITY
1. Agreement Between the Government of Japan and the European Community
Concerning Cooperation on Anticompetitive Activities ................................ 229
KOREA
2. Agreement between the Government of Japan and the Government of theRepublic of Korea for the Liberalisation, Promotion and Protection ofInvestment .................................................................................................... 239
II. Contemporary Practices and Opinions ........................................................... 253
1. Written Statement of the Government of Japan Regarding the Reguest for
an Advisory Opinion on the Question of the Legal Conseguences of theConstruction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

2. Joint Committee Agreement on Criminal Jurisdiction Procedures under theU.S.-Japan Status of Forces Agreement
3. The Views of the Government of Japan on the Lawsuit against Japanese andOther Companies, Regarding the Sherman Act's Reach under the Foreign
Antitrust Improvements Act (FTAIA)
4. The Views of the Government of Japan on the Lawsuit by a Japanese Company,
Regarding the Practice of Zeroing by the United States Department ofCommerce (USDOC)
5. The Views of the Government of Japan on the Lawsuit against Tokyo Kikai
Seisakusho, Ltd., and TKS (U.S.A.), Inc., Regarding a Manner to Construe
the Anti-Dumping Act of 1916
Chronology of Japanese Foreign Affairs...... ........ ...... .......... ........................... 288
Activites

1. Activities of the International Law Association of Japan .............................. .. 296
II. Activities of Related Academic Associations in Japan .................................. .. 303
List of Members ............................................................................................... 309

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