Who rules Japan?
Subtitle: popular participation in the Japanese legal process
By: edited by Leon Wolff, Associate Professor of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Australia; Luke Nottage, Professor of Law, University of Sydney, Australia; Kent Anderson, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Western Australia, Australia
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781849804103; 9781784717490
Subjects: Citizen participation; Law reform; Law; Administration of Justice; Power (Social sciences)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-206) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Who rules Japan? / Leon Wolff, Luke Nottage and Kent Anderson; title: Judging Japan's new criminal trials : early returns from 2009 / David T. Johnson and Satoru Shinomiya; title: Popular participation in labour law : the new labour dispute resolution tribunal / Takashi Araki and Leon Wolff; title: In defence of Japan : government lawyers and judicial system reforms / Stephen Green & Luke Nottage; title: Administering welfare in an ageing society / Trevor Ryan; title: Reforming Japanese corrections : catalysts and conundrums / Carol Lawson; title: Competition law in Japan : the rise of private enforcement by litigious reformers / Souichirou Kozuka; title: When Japanese law goes pop / Leon Wolff.