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	Japanese law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Graduate Law schools have emerged in Japan in the last few years, and the LRTI admissions process will be altered from 2006 so that only law school graduates, or graduates in other fields who complete a preliminary examination, will be allowed to take the exam.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_law (1626 words)

	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.
		In that case, a person, who has lost Japanese nationality because nationality retention is not submitted will not be able to re-acquire Japanese nationality unless he/she is domiciled in Japan before coming of age, and a notification of nationality acquisition is submitted to the Minister of Justice (Article 17, Paragraph 1).
		Then, at the end of 1997, the Nationality Law in South Korea was revised, and as a result, it was stipulated that if either one of their parents were Korean, children born on or after the day the revised law was enforced (June 14, 1998), automatically acquired Korean nationality.
	www.crnjapan.com /citizenship/en (1854 words)

	Canon Law vs. Japanese Law
		Since both medieval canon law and the laws of medieval Japan were religiously based and therefore primarily concerned with the conduct of the people comprising their respective societies, it follows that they are at least a contributing factor in the development of modern laws.
		...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.
		by Kenneth A. Grossberg & Kanamoto Nobuhisa, The Laws of the Muromachi Bakufu (Tokyo: Monumenta Nipponica, Sophia University, 1981) at 21.
	www3.sympatico.ca /geniel/history.htm (9962 words)

	Materials for the Study of Japanese 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.
		Laws could take the form of Imperial Ordinances, Prerogative Ordinances, Extraordinary Ordinances, Rescripts, or Cabinet Ordinances, depending upon the authority responsible and the time in which they were promulgated.
		The Imperial House Law and the Law of the Houses).
	www.columbia.edu /~hds2/BIB95/ch22.htm (3369 words)

	Japanese Law
		Sovereignty, previously embodied in the emperor, is vested in the Japanese people, and the emperor is defined as the symbol of the state.
		Japanese courts do not use a jury system, and there are no administrative courts or claims courts.
		Tokyo Metropolitan University Faculty of Law (in Japanese)
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /world/japan.htm (369 words)

	Japan's Foreign Lawyer's Law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In particular, the U.S. was on the offensive to broaden the scope of Law 66.
		The law was further amended in June 1996 (in effect as of September 1, 1996 and hereinafter Special Measures Law 1996).
		Japanese modern law may be merely a "veneer" behind which the traditional ways of acting and living are perpetuated.
	www.wsu.edu /~legal/ijrnl/ciano-martin/text.htm (4030 words)

	LLRX -- Update to Japanese Law via the Internet
		Japanese Constitutional law was adopted in 1946 after the Second World War.
		The Japanese court system is simple because it is not a federal system.
		Houko (meaning law storehouse) is a typical site of the former type, containing a word index, a field index and a chronological index.
	www.llrx.com /features/japan2.htm (1777 words)

	Materials for the Study of Japanese Law
		In addition, Tanaka provides a series of appendices that includes both a bibliography of Japanese and English language sources on Japanese law and, what is more important, a list of major laws and their promulgation dates through 1972.
		Laws are categorized and numbered without a corresponding page number; one has to find the assigned number therefore to find a particular law.
		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).
	www.columbia.edu /~hds2/BIB95/00laws_southgate.htm (3369 words)

	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.
		The Japanese law has never adopted a originality requirement in the sense of not copying, but we have long used the creativity concept alone.
		The Japanese Court cannot enlarge the scope of the “quotation” provision to allow for the existence of parody, since parody is something different from “quotation” set forth in Article 32.
	www.softic.or.jp /en/articles/fordham_sugiyama.html (2069 words)

	Japanese law -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Japanese poems, which usually do not rhyme, are based on a syllable count.
		Japanese economic growth was designed to enrich the nation through trade, not necessarily to improve the standard of living of the Japanese people.
		Published in Japanese in 1928–29 as Tade kuu mushi, the novel is generally considered one of the author's finest works.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9043367 (945 words)

	University of Michigan Law School: Japanese 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.
		All Japanese law-related courses are open to cross-registration to graduate students from other schools in the University with permission of instructor.
		This program is a unique opportunity for students to meet experts on many fields of Japanese law, as well as to discuss comparative issues with regular Law School faculty who have taught in Japan (nearly half of the faculty have done so, and many have published scholarship in Japanese).
	www.law.umich.edu /CentersAndPrograms/japaneselaw (771 words)

	Japanese Family Law and Family Related Law
		The modern Japanese legal system is based largely on the Anglo-American tradition, with some influence from the 19th century when French and German legal systems.
		In 2001, the Japanese Supreme Court (English version home page) started their service to produce full-text data of official case reports which have been published since 1947.
		Article 2 of the said Law prescribes that "the State and local public entities bear responsibility for the sound mental and physical growth of children", explicitly defining the duty of the State and local public entities for child welfare.
	www.crnjapan.com /japan_law/en (2013 words)

	American Lawyer in a Japanese Law Office
		I'll be the first to admit that there is a huge gap between the language ability of a native Japanese speaker and the "advanced" Japanese ability I am so proud of.
		Anyway, I consider someone a beginner in Japanese if they have a vocabulary of less than a thousand words, know a hundred or so kanji, and are still wrestling with verb tenses and positive and negative forms.
		My other work in a Japanese law office was simply work--not an internship--found through an alumni connection when I was studying in Kyoto (on a Japanese Ministry of Education Scholarship.).
	blogs.salon.com /0002421 (2053 words)

	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.
		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).
		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.
	lib.law.washington.edu /eald/jlr/jlrwebresources.htm (4985 words)

	The Center for Japanese Legal Studies
		Columbia was the first law school in the United States to offer courses in Japanese law.
		The Center actively promotes research on Japanese law, aided by the country's premier collection of Japanese legal materials housed in the Law School's Toshiba Library for Japanese Legal Research.
		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.
	www.law.columbia.edu /center_program/japanese_legal (333 words)

	GUIDE TO LAW ONLINE: Japan
		Constitution Finder: Japan (University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law) in Japanese
		Mining Laws of Asian Countries: Japan (Metal Mining Agency of Japan)
		Japanese Legal Research at the University of Washington (University of Washington School of Law, Gallagher Law Library)
	www.loc.gov /law/guide/japan.html (315 words)

	Japanese Law Online - Welcome
		This website is a comprehensive guide to resources on the internet about Japanese law, mainly in English.
		Law journals: links to university, trade and commercial law-related journals, published in Japanese or foreign languages, setting out their tables of contents, article abstracts and, where available, full-text access to articles
		This website is provided as a public service to assist legal professionals, students and researchers learn more about Japanese law.
	www.jlawonline.info (280 words)

	UC Japanese Law Society: About the Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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:
		Japanese proficiency is not required (but probably helpful in finding a position).
		The Japanese firm of Nagashima, Ohno and Tsunematsu hires one University of Chicago student each year to work as a summer associate.
	japanlaw.uchicago.edu (125 words)

	English Translations of Japanese Laws
		The corresponding page in Japanese offers a list of full translation of more than 100 Japanese law, as well as many partial translations.
		If you go to the page in Japanese ("Japanese" above right), the use of Ctl + F keys (Command key + F key for Mac) and English key words will enable you to find the law you are looking for.
		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!
	homepage2.nifty.com /paper/law_english.htm (219 words)

	Amazon.com: Japanese Law: Books: Hiroshi Oda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Japanese Law : An Economic Approach (Studies in Law and Economics) by J.
		This is the updated and substantially enlarged edition of Japanese Law, originally published in 1992, which was acclaimed as the first comprehensive study of Japanese law to be published in English by a Japanese academic.
		The study of comparative law has attracted academics in Europe and the United States since the last century.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0199248109?v=glance (518 words)

	japanlaw.co.jp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Nakamura and Associates was merged with Yoshida and Partners, and renamed as Yoshida and Partners as of January 1, 2000.
		We would appreciate your inquiry about Japanese laws and practices through e-mail to yandp@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.
	www.japanlaw.co.jp (330 words)

	Foreign & International - Japan
		Electronic annually-cumulated index to Japanese legal cases and articles published in a wide range of publications.
		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).
		Japanese Law Links by Luke Nottage contains laws in full text.
	www.law.nyu.edu /library/foreign_intl/japan.html (155 words)

	Japanese Law (Japanese legislation in English) - An English language resource from Mizuho Securities
		Law concerning the Exceptional Provisions to the Copyright Law required in consequence of
		Law for implementation of the Mutual Recognition between Japan and the European Community
		Law concerning the Recovery and Destruction of Fluorocarbons (June 2001)
	www.mizuho-sc.com /english/ebond/law.html (2148 words)

	Japanese Law Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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.
		Luke Nottage, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney
		Leon Wolff, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales.
	www.japaneselawlinks.info (73 words)

	Japan
		Japan law resource page with links to the Japan constitution, Japan government, Japan law firms, Japan law, Japan law schools, Japan study abroad programs, Japan prime minister, Japan legal research, Japan courts, Japan commercial law, Japan foreign affairs, Japan intellectual property law, Japan legislature, and Japan law guide.
		Links to translations of various Japanese laws at other websites from Mika's page.
		Site includes translations of laws and regulations on banking, finance, trade regulation, etc. Also has back issues of the Japan Law Letter.
	www.washlaw.edu /forint/asia/japan.html (269 words)

	FindLaw: International Resources: Countries: Japan
		Japanese Law Information English translations of Japanese laws.
		Patro Information KK PATRO offers a wide range of expert patent-related services which include conducting technical searches (especially Japanese patent searches) and can provide translations of Japanese technical and patent documents.
		Writings on Japanese Law From the Kitahama Law Office.
	www.findlaw.com /12international/countries/jp.html (374 words)

	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.
	www.senrei.com (226 words)

	WorldLII - Categories - Countries - Japan
		It has law text, huge links, new legislation, new judgements and law society news.
		Special page for law students is also prepared for learning law.
		Provides information in English on Japanese and comparative law, including articles, translations and links to other useful sources of information (Temple University)
	www.worldlii.org /catalog/232.html (169 words)

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