Like many things Japanese, the Japanese legal system has its peculiarities...
Here, at last, is a glimpse into the Japanese legal system, ideal for foreign residents of Japan as well as legal researchers and practitioners..
And in spite of being written by an attorney, the book is in everyday English, peppered with entertaining and sometimes stinging asides.
Older articles have been updated to reflect more recent developments, but remain vitally important to understanding how things work in Japan.
Based on the author\'s long-running feature in The Japan Times , the book offers a selection of his most important columns, plus other articles drawn from numerous sources, and including a number of never-before published pieces.
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As with most legal systems there is method to its madness, and while the reasoning behind it all is a bit different from the approaches of Western nations, it works. and Professor Jones applies his decades of legal and teaching experience to shed light on its mysteries.
Like many things Japanese, the Japanese legal system has its peculiarities..
