THE
JAPANESE ANNUAL
OFINTERNATIONAL LAW

No. 271984

THE INTERNATIONAL LAW ASSOCIATION OF JAPANTHE JAPANESE ANNUAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

No. 27 (1984)

CONTENTS

Articles:A Japanese View of the International Regulation of Multinational
Corporations ..................................... Noritake Kobayashi
International Law and Coercion ........................ Shigeyoshi Ozaki

112Notes:Strengthening the Principle of the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes: United
Nations Efforts and Japan ............................ Moritaka Hayashi
Practices in Japan Concerning the Conclusion of Treaties ....... Masaki On"taJapanese Practice Relating to the Succession of States in Respect ofTreaties ......................................... Toshitaka Mon'kawa

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Practice:
Annual Review of Japanese Practice in International Law XIV(1974·75) ............................. Shigeru Oda and Hisashi Owada

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Activities:
Activities of the International Law Association of]apan .................. .

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Judicial Decisions in Japan:
Supreme Court
Supreme Court of Japan, June 7, 1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 119
Pn'vate International Law - Enforcement of Foreign (The Distn"ct ofColumbia, U.S.A.) Judgment - Public Order - Reciprocity (MutualGuarantee)
High Court
Tokyo High Court, December 17,1981 ...............................
Public International Law - Junsdiction of Japanese Court over Foreign
State - State Succession - Ownership of Land by Foreign State Prescnption

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Tokyo High Court, March 31,1982 ..... . ... ......... ....... ....... ... 136
Private International Law - Enforcement of Foreign (The District ofColumbia, U.S.A.) Judgment - Public Order - Reciprocity (MutualGuarantee)
Tokyo High Court, December 6, 1982 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
Public International Law - Defi"nition of Refugee - Violation of the Alien
Registration Law142

District Court
Tokyo District Court, April 22, 1982 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
148
Public International Law - Claim for Annulment of the Imposition ofCorporation Tax - Sovereign Rights over the Continental Shelf under
Customary International Law - Do Such Sovereign Rights Include thePower of the Coastal State to Impose Taxes on Income Accruing from theExploiting Activities in the Continental Shelf? - Meaning of the Terms
Areas of Enforcement and Income Accruing from Those Areas in theCorporation Tax Law
Tokyo District Court, September 27,1982 .......................
Private International Law - International Adjudicatory Jurisdiction Warsaw Convention for the Unifi"cation of Contain Rules Relating toInternational Carnage by Air, as Amended by the Hague Protocol (J955)(Article 28) - A Case Concerning Claim for Damages against a Foreign(Dutch) Corporation that has a Place of Business in Japan

174

Osaka District Court, April 22, 1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
Private International Law - Enforcement of New York Arbitral AwardThe New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Fa reign
Arbitral Awards of 1958 (Article 5) - Burden of Proving Conditions todeny Recognition

184

Family Court
Kobe Family Court, September 21,1981 ........ ... ... . ....... ... ...
Private International Law - Intestate Estate of an Australtan Deceased Appointment of Administrator - Choice of Law and Jurisdiction

189

Kobe Family Court,July 15,1982 ....................................
Private International Law - Probate of Wzli - Form of Wzli - Wzli
Received by the French Consul-General

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Chronology of Japanese Foreign Affairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
Chronological List of Treaties and Other International Agreement Concluded
by Japan in 1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..

196208Documents:
Sweden1. Convention between Japan and Sweden for the Avoidance of Double
Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on
Income. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
U.S.S.R.
2. Protocol concerning Procedures and Conditions of Japanese Sulmon
Fisheries in the North West Pacific in the Year 1983 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
3. Protocol for the Prolongation of the Duration of the Agreement
between the Government of Japan and the Government of U.S.S.R.
Concerning Fisheries off the Coast of the U.S.S.R. in the Northwest
Pacific of 1977 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
Protocolfor the Prolongation of the Duration of the Agreement
4.
between the Government of Japan and the Government of U.S.S.R.
Concerning Fisheries off the Coast of Japan of 1977 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
List of Members ....

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