Japan

Beiträge einer internationalen Fachtagung über die Rolle des Rechts in der japanischen Gesellschaft im allgemeinen und im geschäftsleben im besonderen durch ein international besetztes Expertengremium. Folgende Themen werden u.a. behandelt:
Grad der Verrechtlichung, Rechtsanwaltschaft, außerrechtliche Schlichtungsmechanismen, Handhabung von Verträgen, Aktionärsverhalten, Rolle der japanischen Bürokratie.

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Emulating Japan? -- Part One: Lawyers, Mediators, and Legal Culture -- Chapter One: The Role of Lawyers in Japan -- Chapter Two: Judges and Mediators in Japan: The Administration as Motionless Mediator? -- Chapter Three: Historical Trends of Civil Litigation in Japan, Arizona, Sweden, and Germany: Japanese Legal Culture in the Light of Judicial Statistics -- Part Two: Law and Contract in Japanese Businesses -- Chapter Four: Use and Non-Use of Contracts in Japanese Business Relations: A Comparative Analysis -- Chapter Five Relational Contracting: Does Community Count? -- Chapter Six: Law, Contract, and Society in Japan: A Personal View -- Chapter Seven: Contract Law and Practice in Japan: An Antipodean Perspective -- Part Three: Aspects of the Japanese Enterprise -- Chapter Eight: Changes in the Japanese Enterprise Groups? -- Chapter Nine: Shareholders in Japan: Attitudes, Conduct, Legal Rights, and their Enforcement -- Chapter Ten: Law as an Agent of Change? Governmental Efforts to Reduce Working Hours in Japan -- Part Four: The Bureaucracy in Japanese Economic and Legal Affairs -- Chapter Eleven: Finance Bureaucracy and the Regulation of Financial Markets in Japan -- Chapter Twelve: Virtual Reality In Japan's Regulatory Agencies -- Chapter Thirteen: Bureaucracy and the Protection of National Interests in Japan: Exemplified for Intellectual Property and Competition Law -- Chapter Fourteen: The Old Boy Network and Government-Business Relationships in Japan -- Part Five: Discussion and Concluding Remarks -- Chapter Fifteen: Informality, Flexibility, and The Rule of Law: A Report of the Discussion -- Concluding remarks -- Index