Table of Contents
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
