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 Era - 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 A
Dan Fenno Henderson: A Tribute / Daniel H. Foote
Appendix B
Selected Writings of Dan Fenno Henderson / Robert Britt
Contributors
Index
