Volume 51 (2008)
CONTENTSOn Launching the Japanese Yearbook of International Law. ......................................................................................... Shigeru Oda
President, International Law Association of Japan

1ARTICLES
Reconceptualization of the International Rule of Law in a Globalizing World...................................................................................................... Hisashi Owada

3 HE LAW OF THE SEA: ENDURING PRINCIPLES AND CONTEMPORARY
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CHALLENGES
Challenging the Fundamental Principle of the Freedom of the High Seasand the Flag State Principle Expressed by Recent Non-flag State Measureson the High Seas............................................................................ Atsuko Kanehara

21International Measures to Combat Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated(IUU) Fishing and Japan.............................................................. Moritaka Hayashi

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Piracy Jure Gentium Revisited —For Japan’s Future Contribution—............................................................................................................ Akio Morita76

Japan-China Dispute Over Maritime Boundary Delimitation—From a Japanese Perspective—............................................. Shigeki Sakamoto

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Legal Issues Concerning the East China Sea Delimitation—A Chinese Perspective on the Sino-Japanese the East China Sea Dispute—....................................................................................................... Haiwen Zhang 119
The Settlement of Disputes Before the International Tribunal for the Law ofthe Sea —A Progressive Development of International Law or Relying on
Traditional Mechanisms?—........................................................... Rüdiger Wolfrum 140
The Basic Act on Ocean Policy and Japan’s Agendas for Legislative
Improvement..................................................................................... Naoya Okuwaki 164

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CONTENTS IVERGENCE AND UNIFICATION OF CHOICE OF LAW RULES FROM AD
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Comparative Analysis of Recent Developments in Private International Law
in Japan and Europe from a Japanese Perspective.....................Toshiyuki Kono 217
The New Japanese Private International Law Act from a European
Perspective........................................................................................Peter Mankowski 241
An American Perspective on the New Japanese Act on General Rules forApplication of Laws........................................ Ronald A. Brand and Tabitha Fish 298
A Comparative Law Analysis on Some Recent Developments in the Conflictof Law Rules of Contract in Japan and China............................ HUANG Renting 314
On the Korean Private International Law..................................... Moonsook Kim 327
Harmonization and Diversification of Contract Conflicts..................................................................................................Yoshiaki Nomura 341

ACCESSION OF JAPAN TO THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
Japan’s Accession to the ICC Statute and the ICC Cooperation Law............................................Kyo Arai, Akira Mayama and Osamu Yoshida 359
Participation in the ICC and the National Criminal Law of Japan............................................................................................... Kanako Takayama 384
Japan’s Entry to the International Criminal Court and the Legal Challenges
It Faced..................................................................................................Yasushi Masaki 409

SPECIAL LECTURE
International Court of Justice: Its Myth and Reality................................ Shigeru Oda 427

JAPANESE DIGEST OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
The 88th Hoshinmaru Case and the 53rd Tomimaru Case: Application to theInternational Tribunal for the Law of the Sea by Japan for Prompt Release................................................................ Junichi Hosono and Junko Iwaishi 438

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Arrest and Detention of Fishing Vessels and Its Crew in EEZ by Coastal State— Grounds for Demands for the Prompt Release —Reasonableness of Bond —Disappearance of Object of Prompt Release Procedure — Impact by Progress ofDomestic Judicial Procedures upon the Prompt Release Procedure

Japan’s Retaliatory Action Against the United States’ Continued Dumping andSubsidy Offset Act of 2000 (Byrd Amendment)................................. Junji Nakagawa 454
World Trade Organization — Dispute Settlement Procedure — Compensationand Suspension of Concessions or Other Obligations as Temporary Measures
Available in the Event That the Recommendations and Rulings Are Not
Implemented within a Reasonable Period of Time — Principles and Procedures
to Be Applied by the Complaining Party in Considering What Concessions or
Other Obligations to Suspend — The Level of the Suspension of Concessions or
Other Obligations Authorized by the Dispute Settlement Body — Arbitration
to Determine the Level of Such Suspension — Domestic Procedure for theSuspension of Concessions or Other Obligations

Recent Legislative and Administrative Measures Against Human Traffickingin Japan.......................................................................................................... SHIN Hae-Bong 471
Human Trafficking — Sexual Exploitation — Forced Labor — International
Labour Organization — The Penal Code — Organized Crimes — Passport
Law — Entertainment Business Law — Immigration Control and Refugee
Recognition Law — Entertainer Visa — Protocol to Prevent, Suppress andPunish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Supplementing
the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime

CASES AND ISSUES IN JAPANESE PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW
State Immunity from Civil Jurisdiction.................................................... Dai Yokomizo 485

BOOK REVIEWS
21 Seiki Kokusaiho no Kadai — Ando Nisuke Sensei Koki Kinen [Agenda forInternational Law in the 21st Century: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Nisuke
Ando’s 70th Birthday], edited by Masahiko Asada.Tokyo: Yushindo Kobun Sha,
2006. .....................................................................................................Kazuhiro Nakatani 496
America Kokusaishiho no Kiso Riron [Basic Theory on American Private
International Law], by Hiroshi Matsuoka. Osaka: Osaka University Press, 2007.
................................................................................................... Yoshihisa Hayakawa 500
Jieiken no Gendaiteki Tenkai [The Right of Self-Defence in the Contemporary
Context], edited by Shinya Murase.Tokyo:Toshindo, 2007.
...................................................................................................................Tadashi Mori 503

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Anti-Dumping Laws and Practices of the New Users, edited by Junji Nakagawa.
London: Cameron May, 2007. ............................................................... Joel P. Trachtman 506
Resolving the Russo-Japanese Territorial Dispute: Hokkaido-Sakhalin Relations(The Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series), by Brad Williams.
London: Routledge, 2007. ............................................................................ Sookyeon Huh 508
The WTO in the Twenty-first Century : Dispute Settlement, Negotiation, andRegionalism in Asia, edited by Yasuhei Taniguchi, Alan Yanovich, and Jan
Bohanes, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
........................................................................................................ Hyuck-Soo Yoo 510

JUDICIAL DECISIONS IN JAPANI.

Public International Law

Supreme Court, Judgment, March 27, 2007............................................................................ 512
Treaty of Peace between Japan and the Republic of China — Joint Communiqué
between Japan and the People’s Republic of China — Recognition of Government— Succession of Government — Incomplete or Partial Succession — Transferof Ownership and Capacity to Sue and to Be Sued after Switch of Government
Recognition

Supreme Court, Judgment, April 27, 2007............................................................................... 518
Article 14(b) of the Treaty of Peace with Japan — Article 11 of the Treaty ofPeace between Japan and the Republic of China — Paragraph 5 of the Joint
Communiqué between Japan and the People’s Republic of China — The Right toClaim Compensation for Damages for People Brought to Japan Against Their Willand the Renunciation Clause in the Joint CommuniquéTokyo District Court, Ruling, January 24, 2007...................................................................... 533
State Immunity from Civil or Administrative Jurisdiction — Restrictive Theoryof Immunity — Distinction between Acts jure imperii and Acts jure gestionis —Consent by a Foreign State to be Subjected to Dispositions by an Administrative
Agency of the Forum StateTokyo District Court, Judgment, February 2, 2007................................................................ 544
Article 1 A(2) of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (1951) —Definition of the Term “being persecuted”— Persecution by Non-State Actors

CONTENTSxiII. Private Interantional Law
Supreme Court, Judgment, March 23, 2007............................................................................ 552
Surrogate Pregnancy — Surrogate Mother — Effect of a Judgment of a ForeignCourt — Recognition of a Foreign Court Judgment — Final Judgment of aForeign Court — Public Policy Exception — Legal Status of Parent-Child RelationshipTokyo High Court, Judgment, October 30, 2006................................................................... 556
Child Support and Alimony Payments Between Chinese Nationals —International Adjudicatory Jurisdiction — Applicable Law in Child Support Cases— Applicable Law Concerning Preliminary Questions of the Age of Majority —Effect of Chinese Divorce Judgments — Recognition of Foreign Judgment

Tokyo District Court, Interlocutory Judgment, March 20, 2007........................................ 561
International Jurisdiction — General and Special Forum — Fairness Between
the Parties and Due and Prompt Administration of Justice — International
Concurrent Litigation — lis pendens — Meaning of ‘court’ in Code of Civil
Procedure Article 142 — Abuse of Rights, Good Faith

Osaka District Court, Judgment, March 29, 2007.................................................................. 567
International Adjudicatory Jurisdiction — Foreign Patent Rights — Applicable
Law of Settlement Agreement

CHRONOLOGY OF JAPANESE FOREIGN AFFAIRS IN 2007....................................... 570

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF TREATIES AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL
AGREEMENTS CONCLUDED BY JAPAN IN 2007........................................................... 586

DOCUMENTS
I.

Treaties

BELGIUM
1. Agreement Between Japan and the Kingdom of Belgium on Social Security...... 591
CHILE
2.	Agreement Between Japan and the Republic of Chile for a Strategic Economic
Partnership.............................................................................................................................. 603

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EAEC
3.	Agreement Between the Government of Japan and the European Atomic
Energy Community for the Joint Implementation of the Broader Approach
Activities in the Field of Fusion Energy Research........................................................ 619
FRANCE
4.	Accord de sécurité sociale entre le Gouvernement du Japon et leGouvernement de la République francaise.................................................................... 630
5.	Ave n a n t à l a C o nve n t i o n e n t re l e G o u ve r n e m e n t d u Ja p o n e t l e
Gouvernement de la République française en vue d’éviter les doubles
impositions et de prévenir l’évasion et la fraude fiscales en matière d’impôts
sur le revenu........................................................................................................................... 642
REPUBLIC OF KOREA
6.	Treaty Between Japan and the Republic of Korea on Mutual Legal Assistancein Criminal Matters............................................................................................................... 661
MEXICO
7.	Protocol Between Japan and the United Mexican States Related toImprovement of Market Access Conditions Based on Paragraphs 3 and 5 ofArticle 5 of the Agreement Between Japan and the United Mexican States for
the Strengthnening of the Economic Partnership........................................................ 669
SINGAPORE
8.	Protocol Amending the Agreement Between Japan and the Republic ofSingapore for a New-age Economic Partnership.......................................................... 670
THAILAND
9.	Agreement Between Japan and the Kingdom of Thailand for an EconomicPartnership.............................................................................................................................. 676
II. National Legislation
Basic Act on Ocean Policy................................................................................................... 731
III. Contemporary Practice and Opinion	The Views of the Government of Japan on the Interpretative Declaration
Made by the Islamic Republic of Iran upon Its Accession to the International
Convention Against the Taking of Hostages................................................................... 739

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ACTIVITIESI.

Activities of the International Law Association of Japan............................... 741

II. Activities of Related Academic Associations in Japan...................................... 741
INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSIONS TO THE JAPANESE YEARBOOK OF
INTERNATIONAL LAW............................................................................................................... 748
TABLE OF CASES ........................................................................................................................ 750
TABLE OF TREATIES AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS ...................................................... 755