Law in Japan
Subtitle: a turning point
By: edited by Daniel H. Foote.
Contributors: Foote, Daniel H. 1954-
Series: Asian law series -- no. 19
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 667
ISBN-13: 9780295987316
Subjects: Law -- Japan -- History; Justice, Administration of -- Japan -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: New knowledge concerning Japan's legal system before 1868, acquired from Japanese sources by Western writers since 1963 / Carl Steenstrup; title: Criminal trials in the early Meiji-era; title: with particular reference to the ukagai/shirei system / Nobuhiko Kasumi; title: Law, culture, and conflict : dispute resolution in postwar Japan / Eric A. Feldman; title: Development of an adversary system in Japanese civil procedure / Yasuhei Taniguchi; title: Japanese judiciary : maintaining integrity, autonomy, and the public trust / John O. Haley; title: Rise of the large Japanese business law firm and its prospects for the future / Yasuharu Nagashima and E. Anthony Zaloom; title: Legislative dynamic : evidence from the deregulation of financial services in Japan / Yoshirō Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer; title: Legal education / Kahei Rokumoto; title: Ongoing changes in the infrastructure of a constitutional system from "bureaucracy" to democracy / Kazuyuki Takahashi; title: Constitution of Japan : "pacifism" and mass media freedom / Lawrence W. Beer.; title: Development of the concepts of transparency and accountability in Japanese administrative law / Katsuya Uga; title: Politics of transparency in Japanese administrative law / Tom Ginsburg; title: Development of criminal law in Japan since 1961/ Kōya Matsuo; title: Globalization and Japanese criminal law / Joseph L. Hoffmann; title: Criminal Justice in Japan / David T. Johnson; title: Litigation, administrative relief, and political settlement for pollution victim compensation : Minamata mercury poisoning after fifty years / Kōichirō Fujikura; title: Medical error, deception, self-critical analysis, and law's impact : a comparative examination / Robert B. Leflar; title: Reexamining legal transplants :  the director's fiduciary duty in Japanese corporate law / Hideki Kanda and Curtis J. Milhaupt; title: Japan's "era of contract" / Takashi Uchida and Veronica L. Taylor; title: From security to mobility? : changing aspects of Japanese dismissal law / Ryūichi Yamakawa; title: Concentrated power : the paradox of antitrust in Japan / Harry First and Tadashi Shiraishi; title: Changing roles of the patent office and the courts after Fujitsu/TI / Naoki Koizumi and Toshiko Takenaka; title: Reform of the Japanese tax system in the latter half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century / Hiroshi Kaneko; title: Some observations on the Japanese tax system at the beginning of the the twenty-first century / Christopher H. Hanna; title: Insolvency law for a new century : Japan's revised framework for economic failures / Kent Anderson and Makoto Itō.