THE
JAPANESE ANNUALOF
INTERNATIONAL LAW

No. 17

1973

THE INTERNATIONAL LAW ASSOCIATION OF JAPANCONTENTS
Articles:Page
International Adjudication and Japan ........................ Kisaburo Yokota 1
The Status of Foreign Lawyers in Japan .................... Tadoo Fukuhara 21

Notes:The Japan·China Joint CommuniqueSome Legal Aspects of the Japan-China Joint Communique. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Takakazu Kuriyama 42

The Joint Communique of Japan and the People's Republic ofChina and the Taiwan Issue ................................ Keishiro Iriye 52
The Japan-China Joint Communique and the Termination ofState of War ......... ..................................... Yuichi Takano 62[Appendix] Joint Communique of the GDvernment of Japanand the Government of the People's Republic of China (Text) ........ 81
New Directions in the International Law of Fisheries

Shigeru Oda 84

The Seventy-Five Years of the Japanese Association ofInternational Law
The Post-War Twenty-Five Year History of the Japanese Associationof International Law ............. .. ..... .. .......... .. Yuichi Takano 91[Appendix] Annual Conferences of the Association, 1948-1972 ............... 100
In Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Association ofInternational Law ........................................ Saburo Yamada 110
Practice:
Annual Review of Japanese Practice in International Law............... .Shigeru ada and Hisashi Owada 116

Activities:
Activities of the International Law Association of Japan ........ Yow Yokota 176,Judicial Decisions in Japan:
Supreme Court
Japan Supreme Court, September 30, 1970 .........................

. ....... 178

Internatioal Law-Territorial Waters-Jurisdictional Limits of DomesticLaw

District Court
Hiroshima District Court, April 27, 1970 ....................................... 201
Private International Law-Salvage and Preferential Right respecting Ships

Tokyo District Court, December 17, 1971 ...................................... 212
Foreign Judgment of Divorce-Invalidity-Compliance with Requirements
regarding Enforcement of Foreign Judgment

Chronology, of Japanese Foreign Affairs (1972) ................................... 217
Chronological List of Treaties and other International Agreements
concluded by Japan in 1972 ................................................ .. 225

Doo.u.ments:
Australia
1. Agreement between the Government of Japan and the Government of

the Commonwealth of Australia for Co-operation in the Peaceful Usesof Atomic Energy ................................... .................. 227
Burma
2. .Agreement between the Government of Japan and the Government ofthe Union of Burma for Air Services .................................. 233

Finland
3. Convention between Japan and the Republic of Finland for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with. respect to Taxes on Income ............................................ 241

France4. Accord de cooperation entre la Gouvernement de Japon et Ie Gouvernment de la Republique Francaise pour l'utilisation de l'energie nucleairea des fins pacifiques ........ ................ .. .......... .. .. ..... 255

U.S.A.
5. Agreement between Japan and the United States of America concerning
the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands .............................. 260
U.S.A.
6. Agreement between Japan and the United States of America for theAvoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion
with respect to Taxes on Income ...................................... 271
List of Members ................................................................... 294