Comparative Law offers a thorough grounding in the subject for students and scholars alike,
covering essential academic discussions and comparative law methodology. It critically …

An Introduction to Japanese Society provides a highly readable introduction to Japanese
society by internationally renowned scholar Yoshio Sugimoto. Taking a sociological …

Business practices in Japan inspire fierce and even acrimonious debate, especially when
they are compared to American practices. This book attempts to explain the remarkable …

The central fact here is that what anthropologists find, in this or that place, far from being
independent data for the construction and verification of theory, is in fact a very com-plicated …

Global competition now shapes economies and societies in ways unimaginable only a few
years ago, and competition (or'antitrust') law is a key component of the legal framework for …

This book offers a comprehensive interpretive study of the role of law in contemporary
Japan. Haley argues that the weakness of legal controls throughout Japanese history has …

Asserting that litigation in late imperial China was a form of documentary warfare, this book
offers a social analysis of the men who composed legal documents for commoners and …

IN comparative work on Japanese law," culture" is king. That culture matters is clear enough.
Even in the West, essays about relentlessly rational individuals, divorced from their cultural …

This paper analyzes the rapid increase in civil litigation in Japan during the 1990s in light of
existing theories of Japanese litigiousness. Using a unique set of prefecture-level data, it …

It is a fundamental human impulse to seek restitution or retribution when a wrong is done,
yet individuals and societies assess responsibility and allocate punishment for wrongdoing …