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Title Law in Japan [electronic resource] : a turning point / edited by Daniel H. Foote.

Imprint Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2007.

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Description xxxix, 667 p. : ill.
Series Asian law series ; no. 19
Asian law series ; no. 19.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents New knowledge concerning Japan's legal system before 1868, acquired from Japanese sources by Western writers since 1963 / Carl Steenstrup -- Criminal trials in the early Meiji-era-- with particular reference to the ukagai/shirei system / Nobuhiko Kasumi -- Law, culture, and conflict : dispute resolution in postwar Japan / Eric A. Feldman -- Development of an adversary system in Japanese civil procedure / Yasuhei Taniguchi -- Japanese judiciary : maintaining integrity, autonomy, and the public trust / John O. Haley -- Rise of the large Japanese business law firm and its prospects for the future / Yasuharu Nagashima and E. Anthony Zaloom -- Legislative dynamic : evidence from the deregulation of financial services in Japan / Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer -- Legal education / Kahei Rokumoto -- Ongoing changes in the infrastructure of a constitutional system from "bureaucracy" to democracy / Kazuyuki Takahashi -- Constitution of Japan : "pacifism" and mass media freedom / Lawrence W. Beer --
Development of the concepts of transparency and accountability in Japanese administrative law / Katsuya Uga -- Politics of transparency in Japanese administrative law / Tom Ginsburg -- Development of criminal law in Japan since 1961/ Koya Matsuo -- Globalization and Japanese criminal law / Joseph L. Hoffmann -- Criminal Justice in Japan / David T. Johnson -- Litigation, administrative relief, and political settlement for pollution victim compensation : Minamata mercury poisoning after fifty years / Koichiro Fujikura -- Medical error, deception, self-critical analysis, and law's impact : a comparative examination / Robert B. Leflar -- Reexamining legal transplants : the director's fiduciary duty in Japanese corporate law / Hideki Kanda and Curtis J. Milhaupt -- Japan's "era of contract" / Takashi Uchida and Veronica L. Taylor -- From security to mobility? : changing aspects of Japanese dismissal law / Ryuichi Yamakawa -- Concentrated power : the paradox of antitrust in Japan / Harry First and Tadashi Shiraishi -- Changing roles of the patent office and the courts after Fujitsu/TI / Naoki Koizumi and Toshiko Takenaka -- Reform of the Japanese tax system in the latter half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century / Hiroshi Kaneko -- Some observations on the Japanese tax system at the beginning of the the twenty-first century / Christopher H. Hanna -- Insolvency law for a new century : Japan's revised framework for economic failures / Kent Anderson and Makoto Ito.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Law -- Japan -- History.
Justice, Administration of -- Japan -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Foote, Daniel H. (Daniel Harrington), 1954-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780295987316 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0295987316 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780295801353 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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