Law in Japan: A Turning Point

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Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction and Overview: Japanese Law at a Turning Point / Daniel H. Foote Part I. The Legal System and the Law's Processes 1. New Knowledge Concerning Japan's Legal System before 1868, Acquired from Japanese Sources by Western Writers since 1963 / Carl Steenstrup 2. Criminal Trials in the Early Meiji - with Particular Reference to Ukagai / Shirei System / Nobuhiko Kasumi 3. Law, Culture, and Conflict: Dispute Resolution in Postwar Japan / Eric A. Feldman 4. The Development of an Adversary System in Japanese Civil Procedure / Yasuhei Taniguchi 5. The Japanese Judiciary: Maintaining Integrity, Autonomy, and the Public Trust / John O. Haley 6. The Rise of the Large Japanese Business Law Firm and Its Prospects for the Future / Yasuharu Nagashima and E. Anthony Zaloom 7. The Legislative Dynamic: Evidence from the Deregulation of Financial Services in Japan / Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer 8. Legal Education / Kahei Rokumoto Part II. The Individual, the State, and the Law 9. Ongoing Changes in the Infrastructure of a Constitutional System: From Bureaucracy to Democracy / Kazuyuki Takahashi 10. The Constitution of Japan: Pacifism and Mass Media Freedom / Lawrence W. Beer 11. Development of the Concepts of Transparency and Accountability in Japanese Administrative Law / Katsuya Uga 12. The Politics of Transparency in Japanese Administrative Law / Tom Ginsburg 13. The Development of Criminal Law in Japan since 1961 / Koya Matsuo 14. Globalization and Japanese Criminal Law / Joseph L. Hoffmann 15. Criminal Justice in Japan / David T. Johnson 16. Litigation, Administrative Relief, and Political Settlement for Pollution Victime Compensation: Minamata Mercury Poisoning after Fifty Years / Koichiro Kujikura 17. Medical Error, Deception, Self-Critical Analysis, and Law's Impact: A Comparative Examination / Robert B. Leflar Part III. The Law and the Economy 18. Reexamining Legal Transplants: The Director's Fiduciary Duty in Japanese Corporate Law / Hideki Kanda and Curtis J. Milhaupt 19. Japan's Era of Contract / Takashi Uchida and Veronica L. Taylor 20. From Security to Mobility? Changing Aspects of Japanese Dismissal Law / Ryuichi Yamakawa 21. Concentrated Power: The Paradox of Antitrust in Japan / Harry First and Tadashi Shiraishi 22. The Changing Roles of the Patent Office and the Courts after Fijitsu / TI / Naoki Koizumi and Toshiko Takenaka 23. The Reform of the Japanese Tax System in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century and into the Twenty-first Century / Hiroshi Kaneko 24. Some Observations on the Japanese Tax System at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century / Christopher H. Hanna 25. Insolvency Law for a New Century: Japan's Revised Framework for Economic Failures / Kent Anderson and Makoto Ito Appendix ADan Fenno Henderson: A Tribute / Daniel H. Foote Appendix BSelected Writings of Dan Fenno Henderson / Robert Britt Contributors Index

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