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| | Japanese law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Japanese contract law allows greater ambiguity than American contract law. | | | Japanese law was historically heavily influenced by Chinese law and developed independently during the Edo period through texts such as Kujikata Osadamegaki, but has been largely based on the civil law of Germany since the late 19th century. | | | Like several other civil law states, Japan places a great emphasis on the rights of the tenant, and landlords are generally not allowed to unilaterally terminate leases without "just cause," a very narrowly construed concept. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_law
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| | Japanese Law |
| | Japanese courts do not use a jury system, and there are no administrative courts or claims courts. | | | Normally a trial begins at the district court level, and a verdict may be appealed to a higher court, and ultimately, to the Supreme Court. | | | The Japanese Constitution includes a bill of rights similar to the U.S. Bill of Rights, and the Supreme Court has the right of judicial review. |
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http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/world/japan.htm
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| | Materials for the Study of Japanese Law |
| | Law and Justice in Tokugawa Japan: Materials for the History of Japanese Law and Justice under the Tokugawa Shogunate 1603-1867. | | | Each volume is arranged by topics, which include: contracts (civil customary law, legal precedents, and commercial customary law), property (civil customary law and legal precedents), procedure, and “personal law” (including legal precedents and civil customary law). | | | The two major collections of Japanese law, the Kanpô and the Hôrei zensho, represent the complete texts of all legal and administrative actions made by the central government since 1867. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/~hds2/BIB95/ch22.htm
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| | Japan's Foreign Lawyer's Law |
| | The law was further amended in June 1996 (in effect as of September 1, 1996 and hereinafter Special Measures Law 1996). | | | For example, Japanese attorneys are permitted to hire foreign attorneys and conduct litigation; however, foreign firms cannot hire Japanese attorneys or appear before Japanese courts or administrative bodies. | | | Law 66 did not resolve all the important issues from both the American’s and the European Union’s perspectives. |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~legal/ijrnl/ciano-martin/text.htm
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| | Japanese Dual Citizenship Issues |
| | Fujimori was a bi-national before the new law and wasn't required to officially choose the Japanese nationality and renounce his other one. | | | A typical case of re-acquisition of nationality is naturalization, and the notification for re-acquisition of nationality under Article 17 of the Nationality Law corresponds to this. | | | Naturally, in cases of unlawful entry, the child cannot be recognized as having a domicile, as specified in Article 17 of the Nationality Law. |
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http://www.crnjapan.com/citizenship/en
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| | Canon Law vs. Japanese Law |
| | ...Japanese generally conceive of law as an instrument of constraint that the state uses when it wishes to impose its will...To an honourable Japanese the law is something that is undesirable, even detestable, something to keep as far away from as possible. | | | Medieval canon law and the laws of medieval Japan are part of the Western legal tradition and the Japanese legal tradition respectively. | | | Canon law characteristically gave judges broad discretion to fit the punishment both to the crime and to the circumstances of the criminal. |
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http://www3.sympatico.ca/geniel/history.htm
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| | Japanese Copyright Law Development |
| | The Japanese Act has moral right provisions in Articles 18 to 20, which are the right of making the work public, right of determining the indication of the author’s name, and the right of preserving the integrity of the work. | | | In contrast, the Japanese law does not have such provision, although sometimes the courts use the same kind of principle. | | | The Court properly admitted a parody as one type of criticism and the use in the particular case is fair one. |
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http://www.softic.or.jp/en/articles/fordham_sugiyama.html
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| | University of Michigan Law School: Japanese Law |
| | Selected areas of substantive law that are examined include contracts, torts, constitutional law, corporate law, economic regulation, family law, labor law, and criminal law. | | | Subjects covered include the roles of Chinese, German, and American law in the development of modern Japanese law, the formal structure of the legal system (including the roles of the judiciary and the bureaucracy), the legal profession, formal and informal dispute settlement mechanisms, and attitudes toward law and its operation. | | | These students, each of whom excelled in legal education in Japan, include lawyers, judges, prosecutors, government officials, and members of legal departments of prominent Japanese corporations. |
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http://www.law.umich.edu/CentersAndPrograms/japaneselaw
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| | Web Resources |
| | Included are (1) summaries of important recent constitutional, civil and commercial law cases in Japan from 1995 to the present; (2) articles and essays on a variety of topics relating to law in Japan; and (3) links to other sites relating the Japanese law. | | | This continuing series of concise and practical articles on the legislative system discusses a variety of topics, including: how laws are named and organized; are legislators public employees?; the legislative process; tables of contents in laws; law numbers; maps and diagrams within laws; the effort to modernize the language in laws; etc. | | | The translated laws will be available via the Internet and in published form to allow anyone to access them, according to sources: (from Yomiuri 13 June; full text in PDF is available on request). |
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http://lib.law.washington.edu/eald/jlr/jlrwebresources.htm
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| | Japanese law -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | Contains English synopses of recent cases, covering antitrust, corporate, and copyright law, as well as translations and outlines of statutes. | | | The introduction of Western law was one element of a wholesale importation of things Western. | | | After the Meiji Restoration of 1868, which abolished feudal privileges and restored titular power to the emperor, the leaders of the new government sought to construct an economic, political, and legal structure capable of commanding respect internationally. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9043367
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| | Japanese Law Online - Welcome |
| | Areas of law: commentary and analysis about specific practice areas, such as competition law, taxation, criminal law and dispute resolution | | | International law: access to treaties and other international agreements to which Japan is a signatory | | | Cases: links to some translations or notes on case law from Japanese courts |
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http://www.jlawonline.info
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| | Foreign & International - Japan |
| | Japanese Legal Research by Rob Britt (Basic Materials for Japanese Legal Research, Finding Articles in Journals, Newspapers, and Edited Volumes, Finding Laws, Finding Cases, etc in English and Japanese). | | | Electronic annually-cumulated index to Japanese legal cases and articles published in a wide range of publications. | | | Japanese Law Links by Luke Nottage contains laws in full text. |
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http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/foreign_intl/japan.html
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| | American Lawyer in a Japanese Law Office |
| | For the time being, I will be teaching a comparative law class at Nichibei Kaiwa Gakuin (http://www.iec-nichibei.or.jp/). | | | I even suspect a couple of these lawyers-to-be were working legally illegally. | | | I fight my way through contracts and patent documents daily, but the sheer speed of TV news reporting makes it difficult. |
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002421
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| | Senrei Home |
| | Senrei is dedicated to the provision of summaries of important recent constitutional, civil and commercial law cases from Japan as well as articles and essays on a variety of topics relating to law in Japan. | | | The case summaries are organized by legal area and topic, and set out chronologically by the level of the deciding court. | | | You should contact your attorney to obtain advice with respect to any particular issue or problem. |
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http://www.senrei.com
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| | Japan |
| | Site includes an overview of the judicial system, a virtual tour of the Supreme Court, a guide to court procedure, prominent judgements of the Court, and justices of Japan. | | | Includes Conflict of Laws, Civil Code (Articles 1 and 2), Promissory Note Law, and Usury Law. | | | Site includes translations of laws and regulations on banking, finance, trade regulation, etc. Also has back issues of the Japan Law Letter. |
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http://www.washlaw.edu/forint/asia/japan.html
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| | Amazon.com: Japanese Law: Books: Hiroshi Oda |
| | The study of comparative law has attracted academics in Europe and the United States since the last century. | | | Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: As Amended to May 1, 1994 (1994-95 Educational Edition) by United States on page 397 | | | Subjects > Law > Perspectives on Law > Comparative |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0199248109?v=glance
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| | japanlaw.co.jp |
| | If you have questions with respect to Japanese laws and practices for any actual or particular case, you are strongly encouraged to consult directly with Japanese attorneys. | | | We will concentrate the articles about commercial laws and practices, such as corporation, intellectual properties, admiralty, insurance, antitrust, contract, etc. | | | Any copy of this Publication or portion thereof must include this copyright notice |
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http://www.japanlaw.co.jp
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| | FindLaw: International Resources: Countries: Japan |
| | Japanese Law Information English translations of Japanese laws. | | | Kudo Case Brief Review of intellectual property related cases from the Supreme Court and Tokyo High Court. | | | Topics include international commercial litigation in Japan and the Japanese legal profession. |
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http://www.findlaw.com/12international/countries/jp.html
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| | GUIDE TO LAW ONLINE: Japan |
| | COURTS: Supreme Court of Japan - includes recent and intellectual property cases in Japanese | | | World Law Index: Japan (Australasian Legal Information Institute) | | | Japanese Legal Research at the University of Washington (University of Washington School of Law, Gallagher Law Library) |
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http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/japan.html
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| | WorldLII - Categories - Countries - Japan |
| | It has law text, huge links, new legislation, new judgements and law society news. | | | Articles and legislation about Japanese commercial laws and practices (In English) | | | Online Resources for Japanese Law & Legal Issues |
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http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/232.html
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| | Japanese Law Links |
| | This website is maintained by Japanese Law Links Pty Ltd, a Sydney-based joint venture company offering legal risk management advice for lawyers and companies dealing with Japan, seminars on Japanese business law for legal and other professionals, and high-quality legal translations. | | | Leon Wolff, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales. | | | Luke Nottage, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney |
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http://www.japaneselawlinks.info
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| | The Center for Japanese Legal Studies |
| | Columbia was the first law school in the United States to offer courses in Japanese law. | | | The Law School's collection of Japanese legal materials was launched in 1982 with a gift from the private collection of the late Jiro Tanaka, Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan between 1964 and 1973, and is considered to be among the finest private law collections in Japan. | | | Professor Curtis Milhaupt, a leading authority on Japanese Law as well as Comparative Corporate Law and Governance, teaches Japanese Law and Legal Institutions and a Seminar on Advanced Research in Japanese Law. |
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http://www.law.columbia.edu/center_program/japanese_legal
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| | UC Japanese Law Society: About the Society |
| | Japanese proficiency is not required (but probably helpful in finding a position). | | | The purpose of the Japanese Law Society is to promote knowledge and awareness of Japan and its legal system on the University of Chicago Law School campus through the following activities: | | | The law school awards fellowships to two students who find summer work in Japan. |
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http://japanlaw.uchicago.edu
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| | English Translations of Japanese Laws |
| | Under titles such as "Collection of 100 Japanese Laws", "Links to Translations of over 100 Japanese Laws", this list is included in JGuide (Stanford), Toshiba Library (Columbia), Japanese Legal Research (Washington), Cornell Law School Library, WorldLII, Foreign and Int'l Legal Databases (NYU), findlaw.com, Asian Law Center (Melbourne), Japan Guide (Toronto), Gesetzetexte (Regensburg), japanreference.com, inter-lawyer.com, Yahoo! | | | These sites will also show you other lists of links related to Japanese law. | | | The corresponding page in Japanese offers a list of full translation of more than 100 Japanese law, as well as many partial translations. |
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http://homepage2.nifty.com/paper/law_english.htm
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| | LAW Redirect |
| | If you are not automatically re-directed to Temple University Japan LAW site, please |
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http://www.tuj.ac.jp/law/lawresources.html
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