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    <title>Law in Japan</title>
    <subTitle>a turning point</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Foote, Daniel H. (Daniel Harrington)</namePart>
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    <dateIssued>c2007</dateIssued>
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    <extent>xxxix, 667 p. : ill.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>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 / Yoshir�o 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 --</tableOfContents>
  <tableOfContents>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/ K�oya 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 / K�oichir�o 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 / Ry�uichi 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 It�o.</tableOfContents>
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  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <note>Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.</note>
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    <geographic>Japan</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">KNX120 .L39 2007eb</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="22">349.52</classification>
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