THE
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OFINTERNATIONAL LAW

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2002

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No. 45 (2002)
CONTENTS
ArticlesThe Social Science of International Law: Its Evolution in Japan................................................................................................Yoshiro Matsui

1Japan’s Legal Responses to United Nations Security Council Resolutions.............................................................................................Koichi Morikawa 34
Notes

Parallel Imports and Intellectual Property Rights in Japan ......Naoki Koizumi 53
Japanese Law in the Era of the Internet — The New and Coming Legislationin Japan...........................................................................Yoshihisa Hayakawa 61
The Japanese Digest of International Law

The Case of Provisional Safeguard Measures Concerning Several Imported
Agricultural Products from China (2000-2002).....................Junji Nakagawa 78
Investigation on and Resort to a Provisional Safeguard Measure — The Lawfulness ofChina’s Countermeasure under WTO Agreement on Safeguards and Japan-China Trade
Agreement of 1974 — Negotiation and Settlement of the Japan-China Agricultural
Trade Dispute — The Japan-China Agricultural Products Trade Council
Anti-Terrorism Special Measures Law (2001) .....................Kazuhiro Nakatani 92
The Anti-Terrorism Special Measures Law — Constitutionality — Use of Weapons —Definitions of Terrorism, Terrorists, Use of Force and Combat — Military Objectives —Applicability of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 — Terrorist Attacks and the Charterof the United Nations — Right of Self-Defense — Validity of the Rules on Neutrality— Basic Plan regarding Response MeasuresThe Incident of an Unidentified Vessel in Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone.............................................................................................Atsuko Kanehara 116
Determination of Unidentified Vessels — Measures Taken by the Japan Coast Guard
against Unidentified Vessels — The Hot Pursuit — The Use of Force during theHot Pursuit — The Legal Grounds under UNCLOS and Japanese Laws for the Useof Force during the Hot Pursuit

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Book Reviews

Associated Statehood in International Law by Masahiro Igarashi............Masaji Ie 127
Claims for Contribution and Reimbursement in an International Context: Conflictof-Law Dimensions of Third Party Procedure by Koji Takahashi.
..............................................................................................Tetsuo Morishita 128
Kokusaiho Kara Sekai wo Miru — Shimin no Tameno Kokusaiho Nyumon (AWorld Vision in an International Law Perspective — Prolegomena toInternational Law for Citizens) by Yoshiro Matsui.................Atsuko Kanehara 132
Kokusaiho no Keizaiteki Kiso (The Economic Basis of International Law) byShinya Murase ......................................................................Junji Nakagawa 135
Mancini und die Parteiautonomie im Internationalen Privatrecht — EineUntersuchung auf der Grundlage der neu zutage gekommenen kollisionsrechtlichen
Vorlesungen Mancinis (Mancini and Party Autonomy in Private International
Law — A Study Based on the Newly Discovered Lectures of Mancini
Concerning the Conflict of Laws), by Yuko Nishitani...............................................................................................Yasuhiro Okuda 139
Judicial Decisions in Japan

I. Public International Law
Tokyo High Court, Judgment, February 8, 2001 ............................................... 142
Article 3 of the Hague Convention on Land Warfare (1907) — Rights of Individuals toFile Claims for Compensatory Damages

Tokyo High Court, Judgment, October 11, 2001 .............................................. 144
Article 3 of the Convention Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land — Right ofan Individual to File a Suit — Article 14(b)of the Peace Treaty of San Francisco — Claimof an Individual

Tokyo District Court, Judgment, October 6, 2000 ............................................ 146
The State’s Jurisdictional Immunity — the Granting of the Right of Permanent Residence
and the Jurisdictional Immunity

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Tokyo District Court, Decision, November 5, 2001........................................... 147
The Principle of Non-Refoulement — Article 33(1) of the Convention Relating to the Statusof Refugees — Article 31(2) of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees — Refugees
and Compulsory Deportation ProceduresTokyo District Court, Decision, March 1, 2002 ................................................. 148
The Principle of Non-Refoulement — Article 33(1) of the Convention Relating to the Statusof Refugees —Article 31(2) of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees — Refugees
and Compulsory Deportation Procedures

II. Private International Law
Supreme Court, Judgment, June 8, 2001........................................................... 151Copyright — Jurisdiction — Tort — Damages — Jurisdictional Facts — Degree and Itemsof Proof — Lex Loci Delicti — Ownership of Copyright — Lex Loci Rei Sitae — Jurisdiction
over Joined Claims — Requirement of a Close RelationshipTokyo High Court, Judgment, January 25, 2001............................................... 155
Tort — Material law of Japan Relating to Foreign Nationals — Claim for Damages —Calculation of the Amount of Death Consolation Money

Tokyo High Court, Judgment, July 18, 2001 .................................................... 157
Trademark — Validity of Registration — Trademark Consiting of a Foreign Company’sName — Construction of “Name” under Section 4(1)(viii)of the Japanese Trademark Law

Nagoya District Court, Judgment, November 24, 1999 .................................... 159
Divorce — Petition by a Japanese Husband against His American Wife — Appointment of a
Parent to Exercise Parental Authority over Their Children — International Jurisdiciton toAdjudicate — Recognition of Foreign Judgment

Tokyo District Court, Judgment, September 25, 2000....................................... 164
The Applicability of Warsaw Convention — the Governing Law of Contract and Torts — theConvention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air(Warsaw Convention) of 1929 Modified by the Hague Protocol of 1955 — the Horei(Application of Laws (General) Act [1898 Law No. 10]) — Aircraft Crashed in Katmandu(Nepal) — Damages Proper to the Bereaved Family — Succession of Damages — Solatium

Tokyo District Court, Judgment, November 24, 2000; H.T.(1077) 282[2002]. ...... 168
Freight Forwarder Loan — Private International Law — Jurisdiction — Exclusive
Jurisdiction (forum selection) Clauses — Code of Civil Procedure (Article 11); Application ofBritish International Freight Association Standard Trading Conditions — Jurisdiction Createdby Response to Action — Constructive Statements — Code of Civil Procedure (Article 12)

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Tokyo District Court, Judgment, May 31, 2001 ................................................ 172
Action for Damages — Claimed by Financial Administrators (as Intervenors) of Failed
Financial Institutions Against an Former Manager and Heirs of the Deceased Former Chief
Director of a Bankrupt Credit Cooperative — Validity of a Renunciation by Intestate Heirsof the Foreign Decedent Who Was Resident in Japan.
Chronological List of Treaties and Other International Agreements Concludedby Japan in 2001 ......................................................................................... 175
Documents

I. Treaties
UNITED KINGDOM
1. Agreement Between Japan and the United Kingdom of Great Britain andNorthern Ireland on Social Security .............................................................. 178
USA
2. Agreement Between Japan and the United States of America Concerning
New Special Measures Relating to Article XXIV of the Agreement UnderArticle VI of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security Between Japanand the United States of America, Regarding Facilities and Areas and theStatus of United States Armed Forces in Japan .............................................. 185
Chronology of Japanese Foreign Affairs......................................................... 188
Activities

I. Activities of the International Law Association of Japan ................................ 201
II. Activities of Related Academic Associations in Japan.................................... 211
List of Members............................................................................................... 216