Harald Baum 
Japan [PDF ebook] 
Economic Success and Legal System

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