Selected Bibliography of Books on Japanese Law Published Between 1995 and 2014 Toshiba Library for Japanese Legal Research
Japanese law in general ...... 1 Administration of Justice...... 2 Administrative law/Public administration ...... 2 Business (Doing business in Japan) ...... 3 Civil law/Torts/Contracts ...... 3 Civil procedure/Dispute resolution ...... 3 Civil rights/Human rights ...... 4 Commercial law/Business law ...... 4 Constitutional law/Constitutional history ...... 5 Corporations/Securities/Finance ...... 7 Criminal law/Criminal justice ...... 8 Cyber law ...... 9 Economic law/Antitrust law ...... 9 Education ...... 10 Elections ...... 10 Energy ...... 10 Environmental law ...... 10 Family law ...... 11 Foreign investment/Foreign trade regulation ...... 11 Gender law ...... 12 Immigration law ...... 13 Insurance law ...... 13 Intellectual property/Industrial property ...... 14 International law in relation to Japanese law ...... 14 Labor law ...... 15 Law and economics ...... 15 Law and society ...... 16 Legal history ...... 16 Legal reform ...... 17 Maritime law ...... 17 Medial law ...... 17 Real estate transaction law ...... 17 Religion and state ...... 17 Social Welfare ...... 18 Taxation ...... 18
Prepared by Yukino Nakashima February 2015
Japanese law in general
Baum, Harald, ed. Japan, economic success and legal system. Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1997 (xx, 401 p.) Papers presented at the Conference on "Japan: Economic Success and Legal System," held at the Japanese-German Center, Berlin, Germany, from Nov. 22-24, 1995. Jpn 600 J2712 1997
Baum, Harald, et al. Japanese business law in western languages: an annotated selective bibliography. 2nd ed. Buffalo, NY: William S. Hein, 2013(xii, 450 p.) Bibliography of books, papers and articles. Jpn 600.06 B327 2013
Dean, Meryll. Japanese legal system. 2nd ed. London: Cavendish, 2002 (xxiii, 571 p.) Jpn 300 D345 2002
Foote, Daniel H., ed. Law in Japan: a turning point. Asian law series no. 19. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007 (xxxix, 667 p.) Conference held in August 2000, Seattle. Jpn 312 L411a 2007
Fujikura, Kōichirō, ed. Japanese law and legal theory. International library of essays in law and legal theory, Legal cultures 9. Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1996 (xxiv, 647 p.) Jpn 312 J271 1996
Ginsburg, Tom, & Harry N. Scheiber, eds. The Japanese legal system: an era of transition. Studies in comparative legal history. Berkeley, CA: University of California at Berkeley, 2012 (xii, 238 p.) Jpn 300 J273 2012
Goodman, Carl F. The rule of law in Japan: a comparative analysis. 2nd rev. ed. Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International, 2008 (xviii, 552 p.) Comp 910 G621 2008
Harada, George. R., & Tomiyuki Ogawa, eds. The changing Japanese society and the law. Hiroshima-shi: Hiroshima Keizai Daigaku Chiiki Keizai Kenkyūjo [Hiroshima University of Economics, Regional Economic Research Institute], Heisei 12 [2000] (152 p.) Jpn 312 C362 2000
Milhaupt, Curtis J., Mark J. Ramseyer, & Mark D. West. The Japanese legal system: cases, codes, and commentary. 2nd ed. University casebook series. New York, NY: Foundation Press, 2012 (xiii, 895 p.) Jpn 300 M599 2012
Milhaupt, Curtis J., Mark J. Ramseyer, & Mark D. West. The Japanese legal system: cases, codes, and commentary. University casebook series. [St. Paul, MN]: Foundation Press, Thomson/West, 2006 (xiii, 790 p.) Jpn 300 M599 2006
Milhaupt, Curtis J., Mark J. Ramseyer, & Michael K. Young, eds. Japanese law in context: readings in society, the economy, and politics. Harvard East Asian monographs 198. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2001 (xv, 644 p.) Jpn 300 J272 2001
Oda, Hiroshi. Japanese law. 3rd ed. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009 (xxvi, 474 p.) Jpn 300 Od1 2009
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Port, Kenneth L., Gerald Paul McAlinn. Comparative law: law and the legal process in Japan. 2nd ed. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2003 (xxxiv, 1097 p.) Jpn 300 P83 2003
Port, Kenneth L. Comparative law: law and the legal process in Japan. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1996 (xv, 830 p.) Jpn 300 P83 1996
Ramseyer, J. Mark, ed. Japanese law: readings in the political economy of Japanese law. International library of essays in law and legal theory. Second Series. Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT, USA: Ashgate/Dartmouth, 2001 (xviii, 510 p.) Jpn 312 J2718 2001
Scheiber, Harry N., & Laurent Mayali, eds. Emerging concepts of rights in Japanese law. Studies in comparative legal history. Berkeley, CA: Robbins Collection Publications, 2007 (xvi, 230 p.) Jpn 300 Em32 2007
Tōkyō Daigaku. Hikaku Hōsei Kokusai Sentā. Japanese reports for the XVIIIth International Congress of omparative Law: Washington, 25 July-1 August 2010. ICCLP publications no. 11. Tokyo: International Center for Comparative Law and Politics, Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo, 2011 (343 p.) A collection of reports on different topics of Japanese law. Jpn 200 In8 2011
Administration of Justice
Blakemore Foundation, & Kokusai Bunka Kaikan, co-organizers. Law and practice in postwar Japan: The postwar legal reforms and their influence: proceedings of the Symposium Honoring the Contributions and Career of Thomas L. Blakemore: May 28-29, 2009. Tokyo: International House of Japan; Seattle: The Blakemore Foundation, 2010 (107 p.) Jpn 082 Sy68 2010
Itoh, Hiroshi. The Supreme Court and benign elite democracy in Japan. Surrey, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Pub., 2010 (xvi, 344 p.) Jpn 710 It62 2010
Ramseyer, J. Mark, & Eric Rasmusen. Measuring judicial independence: the political economy of judging in Japan. Studies in law and economics (Chicago, Ill.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003 (xii, 201 p.) Jpn 085 R149 2003
Administrative law/Public administration
Isozaki, Yōsuke, et al. Taiyaku Nihon no chihō jichi: chihō jichihō shikō 50-shūnen kinen = The local administration in Japan: the 50th anniversary of the enforcement of local autonomy law. Tōkyō: yōsei, Heisei (543 p.) In English & Japanese. Jpn 920 T1392 1997
Mizutani, Fumitoshi. Regulatory reform of public utilities: the Japanese experience. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2012 (xiv, 277 p.) Jpn 669 M69 2012
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Sugai, Shūichi, & Itsuo Sonobe. Nihon no gyōseihō = Administrative law in Japan. Tōkyō: yōsei, (150, 126 p.) In English & Japanese. Jpn 930 Su315 1999
Business (Doing business in Japan)
De Mente, Boye. Japan: understanding & dealing with the new Japanese way of doing business! [s.l.]: Phoenix Books, 2012 (x, 197 p.) HF5389.3.J3 D46 2012
Hodgson, James D., et al. Doing business with the new Japan: succeeding in America's richest international market. 2nd ed. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008 (ix, 238 p.) HD58.6 .H63 2008
Nishiyama, Kazuo. Doing business with Japan: successful strategies for intercultural communication. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000 (215 p.) HF5389.3.J3 N57 2000
Shinomiya, Sue. Business passport to Japan. Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press, 2008 (261 p.) HF5389.3.J3 S55 2008
Civil law/Torts/Contracts
Hondius, E. H. Modern trends in tort law: Dutch and Japanese law compared. Cambridge, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999 (viii, 308 p.) Comp 590 M719 1999
Kitagawa, Zentaro, & Riesenhuber Karl, eds. The identity of German and Japanese civil law in comparative perspectives = Die Identität des deutschen und des japanischen Zivilrechts in vergleichender Betrachtung. International conference proceedings. Berlin: De Gruyter Recht, 2007 (xiii, 275 p.) Comp 300 Id2 2007
Nottage, Luke. Product safety and liability law in Japan: from Minamata to mad cows. London; New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004 (xvi, 308 p.) Jpn 530 N848 2004
Visser 't Hooft, Willem Maurits. Japanese contract and anti-trust law: a sociological and comparative study. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2001 (vi, 219 p.) Jpn 500 V765 2001
Civil procedure/Dispute resolution
Davis, Joseph W. S. Dispute resolution in Japan. Contributions by H. Oda and Y. Takaishi. The Hague; Cambridge, MA: Kluwer Law International, 1996 (x, 568 p.) Jpn 700 D294 1996
Goodman, Carl F. Justice and civil procedure in Japan. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications (2004 xiii, 545 p.) Jpn 700 G622 2004
3 Hattori, Takaaki, Dan Fenno Henderson, & Yasuhei Taniguchi, et al., eds. Civil procedure in Japan. 2nd ed. Yonkers, NY: Juris Pub., 2000-. 1 volume (loose-leaf) Last updated in May 2009. Jpn 700 H289ci
Kojima, Takeshi. Civil procedure and ADR in Japan. Series of the Institute of Comparative Law in Japan 65. Tokyo: Institute of Comparative Law in Japan, Chuo University Press, 2004 (vi, 433 p.) Jpn 700 K829c 2004
Sato, Yasunobu. Commercial dispute processing and Japan. The Hague; New York: Kluwer Law International, 2001 (xx, 435 p.) Jpn 778 Sa84 2001
Civil rights/Human rights
Beer, Lawrence Ward. Human rights constitutionalism in Japan and Asia: the writings of Lawrence W. Beer. The writings of v. 1. Folkestone, UK: Global Oriental, 2009 (viii, 311 p.) Comp 910 B393 2009
Dinan, Kinsey. Owed justice: Thai women trafficked into debt bondage in Japan. New York: Human Rights Watch, 2000 (227 p.) JX4263.P3 J2717 2000
Goodman, Roger, & Ian Neary, eds. Case studies on human rights in Japan. Richmond, Surrey: Japan Library, 1996 (viii, 309 p.) Jpn 908 C266 1996
Kitaguchi, Suehiro. An introduction to the Buraku issue: questions and answers. Translated with an introduction by Alastair McLaughlan. Richmond, Surrey: Japan Library, 1999 (viii, 213 p.) Translation of: Nyūmon Buraku mondai. Jpn 916 K647 1999
O'Brien, David M., & Yasuo Ōgoshi. To dream of dreams: religious freedom and constitutional politics in postwar Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1996 (xvi, 271 p.) Jpn 980 Ob8 1996
Williams, Noel. The right to life in Japan. Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series. London; New York: Routledge, 1997 (x, 170 p.) Jpn 908 W674 1997
Commercial law/Business law
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune. Introduction to Japanese business law & practice. Tokyo: Lexis Nexis Japan, 2012. Jpn 600 In891 2012
Bälz, Moritz, et al., eds. Business law in Japan: cases and comments: intellectual property, civil, commercial and international private law: writings in honour of Harald Baum. Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International, 2012 (xxiv, 824 p.) Jpn 600.3 B964 2012
Barker Gosling (Firm), consulting editor. Japan business law guide. North Ryde, N.S.W.: CCH International, 1988-. 2 volumes (loose-leaf) Last updated in Sept. 2014.
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International Business Publications, USA, ed. Japan: business law handbook, vol.1, Strategic information and basic laws. Washington, DC: International Business Publications, USA, 2012 (274 p.) Jpn 600 J2715 2012
Japan business law review 2012. Tōkyō: ILS Shuppan, 2011 (274 p.) On cover: "Practical legal guide to Japanese business law by lawyers in forefront." Jpn 600 J2716 2012
Kawamura, Akira, & Pauline C. Reich, eds. Law and business in Japan. New ed. Tokyo: Commercial Law Centre, Inc., 2000 (218 p.) Jpn 600 L411 2000
Kitagawa, Zentarō, general editor. Doing business in Japan. New York: Matthew Bender, 1980-. 7 volumes (loose-leaf) Last updated in Sept. 2014. Jpn 600 D681
McAlinn, Gerald Paul, ed. Japanese business law. Alphen aan den Rijn; Austin, TX: Wolters Kluwer, 2007 (xliv, 725 p.) Jpn 600 J2713 2007
Shishido, Zen’ichi, ed. Enterprise law: contracts, markets, and laws in the US and Japan. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2014. Comp 610 En82 2014
Constitutional law/Constitutional history
Beer, Lawrence Ward, & John M. Maki, (John McGilvrey). From imperial myth to democracy: Japan's two constitutions, 1889-2002. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2002 (xiv, 234 p.) Jpn 910 B392 2002
Beer, Lawrence Ward, & Hiroshi Itoh. The constitutional case law of Japan, 1970 through 1990. Asian law series no. 13. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996 (xiv, 688 p.) Jpn 910.3 B392 1996
Boyd, James Patrick, & Richard J. Samuels. Nine lives?: the politics of constitutional reform in Japan. Policy studies 19. Washington, DC: East-West Center Washington, 2005 (ix, 82 p.) Jpn 910 B693 2005
The Constitution of Japan Project 2004. Rethinking the constitution: an anthology of Japanese opinion. Translated by Fred Uleman. Kawasaki, Japan: Japan Research Inc., 2004 (viii, 231 p.) Originally published in Japanese by Kodansha Kokumin shuken no ronten, Nihon no kenpō, 2004. Jpn 910 K832163 2004
Hata, Hiroyuki, & Go Nakagawa. Constitutional law of Japan. The Hague; Boston: Kluwer Law International, 1997 (208 p.) Originally published as a monograph in the International Encyclopaedia of Laws. Constitutional Law. Jpn 910 H28 1997
5 Hellegers, Dale M. We, the Japanese people: World War II and the origins of the Japanese constitution. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002. 2 volumes (xvii, 826 p.) JX1395.4J3 H367 2002
Higuchi, Yōichi, ed. Five decades of constitutionalism in Japanese society. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2001 (vii, 358 p.) Jpn 910 F586 2001
Hook, Glenn D., & Gavan McCormack. Japan's contested Constitution: documents and analysis. Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge series. London; New York: Routledge, 2001 (viii, 212 p.) Jpn 910 J2712 2001
Japan. Kokkai. Shūgiin. Kenpō Chōsakai. Final report. Tokyo: Research Commission on the Constitution, The House of Representatives, Heisei 17 [2005] (xxix, 809, 19 p.) Translation of: Shūgiin Kenpō Chōsakai hōkokusho [The House of Representatives research report on the Constitution of Japan]. Jpn 910 J2713 2005
Koseki, Shōichi. The birth of Japan's postwar constitution. Edited and translated by Ray A. Moore. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997 (xii, 276 p.) Translation of: Shin kenpō no tanjō, first published in 1989. Jpn 910 K846 1997
Matsui, Shigenori. The constitution of Japan: a contextual analysis. Constitutional systems of the world. Oxford; Portland, OR: Hart Pub., 2011 (xl, 289 p.) Jpn 910 M429 2011
McNelly, Theodore. The origins of Japan's democratic constitution. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000 (xiii, 221 p.) Jpn 910 M233 2000
Ōta, Kazuo. An analysis of our HASTIC era & the role of the Japanese peace constitution: peace studies and essays. Kyōto-shi: Hōritsu Bunkasha, 2004 (185 p.) Jpn 910 Ot1 2004
Port, Kenneth L. Transcending law: the unintended life of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2010 (xvi, 278 p.) Jpn 910 P83 2010
Takii, Kazuhiro, & Pat Fister. Itō Hirobumi: Japan's first prime minister and father of the Meiji Constitution. Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2014 (xiv, 250 p.) DS884.I8 T3513 2014
Takii, Kazuhiro. The Meiji Constitution: the Japanese experience of the West and the shaping of the modern state. Translated by David Noble. 1st English ed. Tokyo: International House of Japan, 2007 (xix, 196 p.) Originally published in Japanese by Kodansha: Bunmeishi no naka no Meiji Kenpō, 2003. Jpn 910 T144163 2007
Urata, Kenji. Reflections on global constitutionalism: perspectives based on the Constitution of Japan. Comparative law study series no. 31. Tokyo: Institute of Comparative Law, Waseda University, 2005 (xi, 274 p.) Jpn 910 Ur2 2005
6 Winkler, Christian G. The quest for Japan's new constitution: an analysis of visions and constitutional reform proposals, 1980-2009. Routledge contemporary Japan series 35. London; New York: Routledge, 2011 (xxi, 215 p.) Jpn 910 W729 2011
Corporations/Securities/Finance
Aoki, Masahiko, Gregory Jackson, & Hideaki Miyajima, eds. Corporate governance in Japan: institutional change and organizational diversity. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2007 (viii, 459 p.) HD2749.J3 C77565 2007
Araki, Motonori, & Mitsuyoshi Saitō. Japan corporation law guide. Tokyo: CCH Japan Ltd., 2010 (xlix, 600 p.) Jpn 610 Ar12 2010
Buchanan, John, et al. Hedge fund activism in Japan: the limits of shareholder primacy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012 (x, 377 p.) HD2744 .B83 2012
Colcera, Enrico. The market for corporate control in Japan: M&As, hostile takeovers and regulatory framework. Berlin; New York: Springer, 2007 (xviii, 387 p.) Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)-- Kyushu University. Jpn 615 C672 2007
International Business Publications, USA, compiler. Japan banking and financial services handbook. Volume 1, Strategic information and regulations. Washington, DC: International Business Publications, USA, 2012 (300 p.) Jpn 640 J2711 2012
Japanese Bankers Association. The banking system in Japan. Tokyo: Japanese Bankers Association (Zenginkyo), 2010 (xiv, 220, 19 p.) English version of: Nihon no kin’yū shisutemu. Jpn 640 B225 2010
Kasaoka, Eriko. The effect of defined benefit liability on firms’ valuations in Japan: comparison of Japanese GAAP for retirement benefits with IAS19. Nishinomiya-shi: Kwansei Gakuin University Press, 2014 (ix, 188 p.) HF5686.O5 K15 2014
Milhaupt, Curtis J., & Mark D. West. Economic organizations and corporate governance in Japan: the impact of formal and informal rules. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2004 (x, 250 p.) Jpn 610 M599 2004
Misawa, Mitsuru. Current business and legal issues in Japan's banking and finance industry. 2nd ed. New Jersey: World Scientific, 2011 (xviii, 577 p.) Jpn 640 M68 2011
Nottage, Luke, Leon Wolff, & Kent Anderson. Corporate governance in the 21st century: Japan's gradual transformation. Corporations, globalisation, and the law. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2008 (xii, 288 p.) Jpn C 200
7 Van Schaik, Dimitri. M&A in Japan: an analysis of merger waves and hostile takeovers. ERIM Ph.D. series research in management 141. Rotterdam: Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2008 (viii, 250 p.) Thesis (doctoral)--Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, 2008. Jpn 610 V362 2008
Whittaker, D. Hugh, & Simon F. Deakin, eds. Corporate governance and managerial reform in Japan. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009 (ix, 305 p.) HD2741 .C774935 2009
Criminal law/Criminal justice
Aldous, Christopher. The police in occupation Japan: control, corruption and resistance to reform. Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia 1. London; New York: Routledge, 1997 (xiii, 310 p.) Jpn 935 Al24 1997
Burns, Catherine. Sexual violence and the law in Japan. ASAA women in Asia series. London; New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005 (xviii, 197 p.) HV6569.J3 B87 2005
Dandō, Shigemitsu. The criminal law of Japan: the general part. Translated by B.J. George. Publications of the Comparative Criminal Law Project v. 19. Littleton, CO: F.B. Rothman, 1997 (xxiv, 521 p.) Originally published in Japanese by Sōbunsha: Keihō kōyō sōron. Jpn 800 D197163 1997
Ezoe, Hiromasa. Where is the justice?: media attacks, prosecutorial abuse, and my 13 years in Japanese court. Tokyo; New York: Kodansha International, 2010 (x, 341 p.) Translation of: Rikuruto jiken Ezoe Hiromasa no shinjitsu, 2009. JQ1629.C6 E9613 2010
Feeley, Malcolm, & Setsuo Miyazawa, eds. The Japanese adversary system in context: controversies and comparisons. Advances in political science. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002 (xx, 262 p.) Jpn 870 J271 2002
Hill, Peter B. E. The Japanese mafia: Yakuza, law, and the state. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006 (xi, 323 p.) Originally published in 2003. HV6453.J33 Y354 2006
Jaffe, Eric. A curious madness: an American combat psychiatrist, a Japanese war crimes suspect, and an unsolved mystery from World War II. New York: Scribner, 2014 (ix, 304 p.) DS885.5.O44 J34 2014
Johnson, David T. (David Ted). The Japanese way of justice: prosecuting crime in Japan. Studies on law and social control 3. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001 (xii, 327 p.) Jpn 865 J631 2001
Johnson, Elmer Hubert, & Carol H. Johnson. Linking community and corrections in Japan. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000 (xviii, 413 p.) Jpn 880 J631 2000
Mitchell, Richard H. Justice in Japan: the notorious Teijin scandal. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002 (xiii, 264 p.)
8 Jpn 895 M692 2002
Obara, Mika. Governamental justification for capital punishment in Japan: case study of the de facto moratorium period from 1989 to 1993. [Printout]. New York, NY: Columbia Law School, Printed from website (viewed March 3, 2014) (viii, 322 p.) Ph.D. Thesis Loughborough University 2013. Jpn 881 Ob1 2013
Parker, L. Craig. Crime and justice in Japan and China: a comparative view. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2013 (xix, 203 p.) HV7110.5 .P37 2013
Research and Training Institute of the Ministry of Justice. Study concerning perpetrators of domestic violence (DV). Research Department report / Research and Training Institute of the Ministry of Justice 24. Urayasu, Chiba: Research and Training Institute of the Ministry of Justice, Japan, 2004 (vii, 251 p.) HV6626.23.J3 S78 2004
Sato, Mai. The death penalty in Japan: will the public tolerate abolition? Springer VS research. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, [2014] (254 p.) Revised thesis (doctoral)--King's College London, 2011. HV8699.J3 S276 2014
Uyehara, Cecil H. The Subversive Activities Prevention Law of Japan: its creation, 1951-52. Brill's Japanese studies library v. 33. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2010 (xv, 454 p.) Jpn 822 Uy3 2010
Weschler, Joanna. Prison conditions in Japan. Human Rights Watch/Asia [and] Human Rights Watch Prison Project. New York: Human Rights Watch, 1995 (xviii, 94 p.) JX4263.P3 J2712 1995
Cyber law
Yanaga, Masao. Cyber law in Japan. Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International, 2012 (220 p.) Originally published as a monograph in the International encyclopaedia of laws. Cyber law. Jpn 059 Y15 2012
Economic law/Antitrust law
Beeman, Michael L. Public policy and economic competition in Japan: change and continuity in antimonopoly policy, 1973-1995. Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series. London; New York: Routledge, 2002 (xix, 218 p.) HC462.9 .B38 2002
Gibney, Frank, ed. Unlocking the bureaucrat's kingdom: deregulation and the Japanese economy. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1998 (xiv, 282 p.) HD4313 .G53 1998
Haley, John Owen. Antitrust in Germany and Japan: the first fifty years, 1947-1998. Asian law series no. 16. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2000 (xiii, 249 p.) Comp 650 H137 2000
9 Inoue, Akira. Japanese antitrust law manual: law, cases and interpretation of the Japanese antimonopoly act. International competition law series v. 27. Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands; Frederick, MD: Kluwer Law International, 2007 (xvii, 346 p.) Jpn 650 In7 2007
Kameoka, Estuko. Competition law and policy in Japan and the EU. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2014 (xiii, 216 p.) Comp 650 K1284 2014
Masuda, Tatsuyoshi. Antimonopoly policy of Japan: an empirical study. Tokyo: Taga Shuppan, 1996 (vi, 186 p.) Jpn 650 M396 1996
Murakami, Masahiro. The Japanese Antimonopoly act = Nihon no Dokusen kinshihō. Tōkyō: Shōji Hōmu, 2003 (22, 331 p.) In English & Japanese. Jpn 650 M932j 2003
Schaede, Ulrike. Cooperative capitalism: self-regulation, trade association, and the antimonopoly law in Japan. Japan business and economics series. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000 (xi, 302 p.) HD3616.J33 S33 2000
Vande Walle, Simon. Private antitrust litigation in the European Union and Japan: a comparative perspective. Antwerpen: Maklu, 2013 (355 p.) Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Kyushu University. K3850 .V36 2013
Wakui, Masako. Antimonopoly law: competition law and policy in Japan. Suffolk, England: Arima, 2008 (xxv, 346 p.) Jpn 650 W137 2008
Education
Gordon, June A., et al., eds. Challenges to Japanese education: economics, reform, and human rights. International perspectives on education reform. New York: Teachers College Press; Yokohama-shi, Japan: Seori-shobo, 2010 (vi, 218 p.) LA1312 .C43 2010
Elections
Gianneti, Daniela, & Bernard Grofman, eds. A natural experiment on electoral law reform: evaluating the long run consequences of 1990s electoral reform in Italy and Japan. Studies in public choice. New York: Springer, 2011 (ix, 168 p.) JF1001 .N197 2011
Energy
International Business Publications, USA, compiler. Japan energy policy, laws and regulations handbook. Volume 1, Strategic information, laws and regulations. Washington, DC: International Business Publications, USA, 2012 (274 p.) Jpn 959 J2714 2012
Environmental law
10 Broadbent, Jeffrey. Environmental politics in Japan: networks of power and protest. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1998 (xviii, 418 p.) Jpn 959 B78 1998
International Business Publications, USA, compiler. Japan: ecology, nature protection laws and regulations handbook. Washington, DC: International Business Publications, USA, 2011 (267 p.) Jpn 959 J2713 2011
Family law
Chapman, David, & Karl Jakob Krogness, eds. Japan's household registration system and citizenship: koseki, identification and documentation. Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia 94. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2014 (x, 265 p.) Jpn 328 J27 2014
Matsushima, Yukiko. Contemporary Japanese family law. Tokyo: Minjiho Kenkyukai, 2000 (vii, 248 p.) Jpn 320 M428 2000
Paulson, Joy. Family law reform in postwar Japan: succession and adoption. Bloomington, IN: Xlibris Corporation, 2010 (260 p.) Jpn 320 P285 2010
Scheiber, Harry N., & Laurent Mayali, eds. Japanese family law in comparative perspective. Studies in comparative legal history. Berkeley, CA: Robbins Collection Publications, 2009 (xix, 332 p.) (In process)
Takahashi, Motoyasu, ed. Finding "ie" in Western society: historical empirical study for the paralleling and contrasting between Japan and Europe. Ehime Daigaku keizaigaku kenkyū sōsho . [Matsuyama]: Department of Social Science, Faculty of Law and Letters, Ehime University, 2013 (248 p.) HQ503 .F56 2013
Foreign investment/Foreign trade regulation
Iida, Keisuke. Legalization and Japan: the politics of WTO dispute settlement. London: Cameron May, 2006 [reprint 2007] (361 p.) Jpn 658 Ii9 2006
International Business Publications, USA, compiler. Japan customs, trade regulations and procedures handbook. Volume 1, Strategic and practical information. Washington, DC: International Business Publications, USA, 2012 (273 p.) Jpn 658 J271 2012
International Business Publications, USA, compiler. Japan import regulations and procedures handbook. Volume 1, Food and agricultural products. Washington DC: International Business Publications, USA, 2014 (305 p.) Jpn 658 J2711 2014
International Business Publications, USA, compiler. Japan investment, trade laws and regulations handbook. Washington, DC: International Business Publications, USA, 2012 (276 p.) Jpn 610 J2711 2012
11 Nihon Bōeki Shinkōkai (JETRO). Laws & regulations on setting up business in Japan. Tokyo: JETRO, 2010 (67p.) Jpn 658 L412 2010
Nihon Bōeki Shinkōkai (JETRO). Setting up enterprises in Japan: reference manual. 6th ed. Tokyo: JETRO, 2004 (xv, 431 p.) Jpn 658 Se78 2004
Pekkanen, Saadia M. Japan's aggressive legalism: law and foreign trade politics beyond the WTO. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008 (xxi, 409 p.) Jpn 658 P36 2008
Rabinowitz, Richard W. Japan's foreign investment law of 1950: a natural history. Veröffentlichung der Deutsch- Japanischen Juristenvereinigung Bd. 19 = Publication of the German-Japanese Lawyers' Association v. 19. Hamburg: Deutsch-Japanische Juristenvereinigung, 2003 (xx, 793 p.) "Companion to The genesis of the Japanese Foreign Investment Law of 1950, published in 1999.” Jpn 658 R114 2003
Rabinowitz, Richard W. The genesis of the Japanese Foreign Investment Law of 1950. Veröffentlichung der Deutsch-Japanischen Juristenvereinigung Bd. 10 = Publication of the German-Japanese Lawyers' Association v. 10. Hamburg: Dohu-Nichi Hōritsuka Kyōkai, (x, p.) Jpn 658 R113 1999
Yanagida, Yukio, et al. Law and investment in Japan: cases and materials. 2nd ed. Studies in East Asian law. Cambridge, MA: East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School, 2000 (xxix, 557 p. + 1 appendix.) Jpn 658 L41 2000
Gender law
Burns, Catherine. Sexual violence and the law in Japan. ASAA women in Asia series. London; New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005 (xviii, 197 p.) HV6569.J3 B87 2005
Burns, Susan L., & Barbara J. Brooks, eds. Gender and law in the Japanese imperium. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2014 (ix, 301 p.) Jpn 332 G2863 2014
Chan, Jennifer. Gender and human rights politics in Japan: global norms and domestic networks. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004 (x, 220 p.) Jpn 332 C36 2004
Kato, Masae. Women's rights?: the politics of eugenic abortion in modern Japan. IIAS publications series. Monographs 2. [Amsterdam]: Amsterdam University Press, 2009 (342 p.) Jpn 322.8 K157 2009
Kobayashi, Yoshie. A path toward gender equality: state feminism in Japan. East Asia: history, politics, sociology, culture. New York: Routledge, 2004 (xiv, 217 p.) Jpn 332 K793 2004
12 Tachibanaki, Toshiaki. The new paradox for Japanese women: greater choice, greater inequality. LTCB international library selection = Chōgin kokusai raiburarī sōsho no. 2 . Tokyo: International House of Japan, 2010 (xix, 290 p.) Translated from Japanese. HQ1762 .T33 2010
Tsujimura, Miyoko, & Emi Yano, eds. Gender & law in Japan. Tōhoku Daigaku 2 -seiki COE puroguramu jendā -hō seisaku kenkyū sōsho dai -kan(bessatsu 1) [Tohoku University 21st Century Centers of Excellence (COE) Program, gender law policy research series no. 11, suppl. 1]. Sendai, Miyagi: Tohoku University Press, 2007 (2 3 p. ) Jpn 332 G2862 2007
Immigration law
Arakaki, Osamu. Refugee law and practice in Japan, Law and migration. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Pub., 2008 (viii, 270 p.) Jpn 917 Ar13 2008
Chung, Erin Aeran. Immigration and citizenship in Japan. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010 (xiii, 205 p.) Jpn 917 C472 2010
Herbert, Wolfgang. Foreign workers and law enforcement in Japan. Routledge library editions: Japan v.7. London; New York: Routledge, 2011 (x, 375 p.) First published in 1996 by Kegan Paul International, UK. Jpn 917 H414 2011
Japan Legal Aid Association, Research Unit. Gaikokujin no tame no Nihon no kurashi to hōritsu = Living with the Japanese law: a guide to foreign nationals in Japan: Q&A 101. 2nd ed. Tōkyō: Edikkusu, 2004 (477 p.) In Japanese & English. Jpn 917 L761 2004
Milly, Deborah J. New policies for new residents: immigrants, advocacy, and governance in Japan and beyond. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014 (xvi, 260 p.) JV8723 M55 2014
Morris-Suzuki, Tessa. Borderline Japan: foreigners and frontier controls in the postwar era. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010 (xi, 272 p.) JV8723 .M67 2010
Shipper, Apichai W. (Apichai Wongsod). Fighting for foreigners: immigration and its impact on Japanese democracy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008 (xv, 216 p.) DS832.7.A1 S55 2008
Yamamoto, Ryoko. Policing strangers: the convergence of immigration law enforcement and crime control in contemporary Japan. [Printout]. New York, NY: Columbia Law School, Printed from website, 2008 (xvi, 230 p.) Thesis (doctoral)--University of Hawaii, 2008. JV8721 .Y35 2008
Insurance law
Kobayashi, Noboru, et al. Insurance law in Japan. Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer Law International, 2011 (260 p.) Originally published as a monograph in the International encyclopaedia of laws. Insurance law.
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Intellectual property/Industrial property
Abe Ikubo Katayama Hōritsu Jimusho., Japanese patent litigation. 2nd ed. [Eagan, MN]: West, 2012 (xxv, 491 p.) Jpn 671 J272 2012
Doi, Teruo. Japanese copyright law in the 21st century. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications, 2001 (xiv, 362 p.) Jpn 673 D684 2001
Ganea, Peter, et al., eds. Japanese copyright law: writings in honour of Gerhard Schricker. Max Planck series on Asian intellectual property law 12. The Hague, The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International, 2005 (xiv, 249 p.) Jpn 673 J2712 2005
Hansen, Bernd, & Dirk Schüssler-Langeheine, eds. Patent practice in Japan and Europe: liber amicorum for Guntram Rahn. Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer Law International, 2011 (xxiv, 827 p.) K1544 .P38 2011
Heath, Christopher. The system of unfair competition prevention in Japan. Max Planck series on Asian intellectual property law v. 3. London; Boston: Kluwer Law International, 2001 (xviii, 336 p.) Jpn 674 H352 2001
Kawaguchi, Hiroya. The essentials of Japanese patent law: cases and practice. Alphen aan den Rijin: Kluwer Law International, 2007 (xxiv, 295 p.) Jpn 671 K179 2007
Port, Kenneth L. Trademark and unfair competition law and policy in Japan. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2007 (xiii, 268 p.) Jpn 675 P832 2007
Port, Kenneth L. Japanese trademark jurisprudence. London; Boston: Kluwer Law International, 1998 (xix, 183 p.) Jpn 675 P83 1998
Rahn, Guntram, ed. Patent litigation in Japan and Germany: contributions to an International Symposium held in Munich on 23 September 2009. Zeitschrift für japanisches Recht. Sonderheft 3. Köln: Heymann, 2011 (149 p.) Jpn 030 Z371 Nr.3 2011
Taplin, Ruth. Intellectual property and the new global Japanese economy. Routledge studies in the growth economies of Asia 87. London; New York: Routledge, 2009 (xviii, 147 p.) Jpn 670 T164 2009
International law in relation to Japanese law
Flowers, Petrice R. Refugees, women, and weapons: international norm adoption and compliance in Japan. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009 (x, 196 p.) DS889.5 .F56 2009
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Labor law
Aiba, Keiko. Unrecognized inequality in the Japanese workplace: structure of organizational sex segregation. [S.l., 1997] (xi, 169 leaves.) Thesis (doctoral)--Washington State University, 1997. Jpn 663 Ai14 1997
Araki, Takashi. Labor and employment law in Japan. Tokyo: Japanese Institute of Labor, 2002 (vii, 234 p.) Jpn 660 Ar12ab 2002
Hanami, Tadashi, & Fumito Komiya. Labour law in Japan. Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International, 2011 (226 p.) Originally published as a monograph in the International encyclopaedia of laws. Labour law and industrial relations. Jpn 660 H192 2011
Kanō, Hideki. Japanese labor & employment law and practice. Tōkyō: CCH Japan Ltd., 2011 (xxii, 510 p.) Completely revised version of: CCH Japan staff employment law guide, published in 2010. Jpn 660 K133 2011
Kagawa, Kōzō. Japanese labour laws: case studies and comments. New Delhi: Deep & Deep Publications, 2007 (xvi, 406 p.) Jpn 660 K1197 2007
Kawanishi, Hirosuke, ed. The human face of industrial conflict in post-war Japan. Japanese studies. London; New York: Kegan Paul International, 1999 (xiii, 287 p.) Jpn 665 K179 1999
Lo, Vai Io. Law and industrial relations: China and Japan after World War II. Studies in social policy (Hague, Netherlands) 4. The Hague; Boston: Kluwer Law International, 1999 (ix, 209 p.) Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Washington. Comp 664 L78 1999
Song, Jiyeoun. Inequality in the workplace: labor market reform in Japan and Korea. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014 (xvi, 229 p.) HD5827.A6 S655 2014
Sugeno, Kazuo. Japanese employment and labor law. 2nd English language ed. Translated by Leo Kanowitz. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press; [Tokyo, Japan]: University of Tokyo Press, 2002 (xxxix, 793 p.) Translation of: Rōdōhō, 5th ed. 2001. Jpn 660 Su34j 2002
Law and economics
Ramseyer, J. Mark. Odd markets in Japanese history: law and economic growth. Political economy of institutions and decisions. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1996 (xvi, 189 p.) Jpn 190 R149 1996
15 Ramseyer, J. Mark, & Minoru Nakazato. Japanese law: an economic approach. Studies in law and economics (Chicago, Ill.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999 (xxi, 310 p.) Jpn 299.E36 R149 1999
Law and society
Feldman, Eric A. The ritual of rights in Japan: law, society, and health policy. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000 (xiv, 219 p.) Jpn 961 F333 2000
Haley, John Owen. The spirit of Japanese law. Spirit of the laws (Athens, Georgia). Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998 (xx, 251 p.) Jpn 200 H137 1998
Steinhoff, Patricia G. Going to court to change Japan: social movements and the law in contemporary Japan. Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies no. 77. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 2014 (viii, 187 p.) Jpn 220 G56 2014
Tanase, Takao. Community and the law: a critical reassessment of American liberalism and Japanese modernity. Translated and edited by Luke Nottage & Leon Wolff. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2010 (xii, 204 p.) A collection of essays originally published in Japanese in law journals or as book chapters between 1990 and 2002. Jpn 908 T154 2010
Vanoverbeke, Dimitri, et al., ed. The changing role of law in Japan: empirical studies in culture, society and policy making. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Pub, 2014 (xiii, 283 p.) Jpn 300 C36 2014
West, Mark D. Lovesick, Japan: sex, marriage, romance, law. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011 (viii, 259 p.) HQ18.J3 W47 2011
West, Mark D. Secrets, sex, and spectacle: the rules of scandal in Japan and the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006 (ix, 404 p.) DS821 .W36 2006
West, Mark D. Law in everyday Japan: sex, sumo, suicide, and statutes. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005 (xii, 279 p.) Jpn 200 W52 2005
Legal history
Botsman, Dani. Punishment and power in the making of modern Japan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005 (xiv, 319 p.) HV9812 .B68 2005
Cunningham, Don A. Taiho-jutsu: law and order in the age of the Samurai. Boston: Tuttle Pub., 2004 (xiv, 178 p.) HV8257.A2 C85 2004
16 Flaherty, Darryl E. Public law, private practice: politics, profit, and the legal profession in nineteenth- century Japan. Harvard East Asian monographs 348. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2013 (x, 322 p.) Jpn 190 F597 2013
McCormack, Noah Y. Japan's outcaste abolition: the struggle for national inclusion and the making of the modern state. Asia's transformations 36. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2013 (xiv, 197 p.) HN730.Z9 M265 2013
Okubo, Takeo. The quest for civilization: encounters with Dutch jurisprudence, political economy, and statistics at the dawn of modern Japan. Leiden, The Netherlands; Boston: Brill, 2014 (xviii, 291 p.). JA84.J3 O38713 2014
Röhl, Wilhelm, ed. History of law in Japan since 1868. Handbook of oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section 5, Japan v. 12. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2005 (vi, 848 p.) Jpn 190 H62 2005
Legal reform
Endo, Naoya. The reform of Japanese law via soft law democracy = Sofuto rō demokurash ni yoru hōkaikaku : Bilingual edition (Japanese & English). Tokyo: Ātodeizu , 2014 (103, 158 p.) (In process)
Maritime law
Black, Lindsay. Japan's maritime security strategy: the Japan Coast Guard and maritime outlaws. Critical studies of the Asia Pacific series. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 (xii, 221 p.) Jpn 822.5 B561 2014
Medial law
Kai, Katsunori, Yuichiro Sato, &Yuko Nagamizu. Medical law in Japan. Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer Law International, 2014 (88 p.) Originally published as a monograph in the International Encyclopaedia of Laws. Medical Law. Jpn 270 K1226 2014
Real estate transaction law
Wynkoop, Jeff. Legal issues in Japanese real estate investment. Costa Mesa, CA: SCW Pub., 2012 (iii, 228 p.) Jpn 400 W991 2012
Religion and state
Maxey, Trent Elliott. The "greatest problem": religion and state formation in Meiji Japan. Harvard East Asian monographs 365. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2014. DS881.95 .M38 2014
Zacharias, Diana. The relationship between state and religion in Japan: a comparison with the German situation, Berichte aus der Rechtswissenschaft. Aachen: Shaker Verlag, 2004 (vi, 96 p.) Comp 980 Z11 2004
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Social Welfare
Stevens, Carolyn S. Disability in Japan. Japan anthropology workshop series. London; New York: Routledge, 2013 (xiv, 186 p.) HV1559.J3 S74 2013
Taxation
omi, Yūj. Guide to Japanese taxes 2006-2007. Tokyo: Zaikei Shōhō Sha, 2006 (444 p.) Also issued in Japanese: Ei-Wa taishō zeikin gaido. Last issue of an annual publication. Jpn 975 G94
Gruendel, Karl. Transfer pricing in Japan. Tōkyō: CCH Japan Ltd., 2010 (xi, 278 p.) Jpn 975 G922 2010
Otsuka, Masatami, et al. Tax law in Japan. 2nd ed. Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International, 2006 (xxi, 164 p.) Jpn 975 Ot8 2006
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