Encyclopedia of Japanese Commercial and Business Law

Encyclopedia of Japanese Commercial and Business Law

For readers of German active in scholarship, commerce or politics, the Encyclopedia presents Japanese commercial and business law in a manner unique for the European continent. The work does not require any familiarity with the Japanese language, and, to the greatest extent possible, reference is made to other Western-language materials and publications. Building from their historical, methodological and institutional background, the work outlines approximately 30 different areas and in so doing effectively encompasses Japanese civil law, commercial law, business law and procedural law. All entries have been updated through 2010. Additionally, the 1700 page volume is supplemented by a comprehensive index of laws and statutes, a nearly 100-page long semi-annotated bibliography of more recent Western publications on Japanese law and a German-Japanese glossary of legal terms.

For historical reasons, the relationship between Germany and Japan in respect of law is quite close. Not least, it was German jurists who were active participants in the construction of the modern Japanese legal system over 100 years ago. The still presently applicable Japanese Civil Code of 1896 and 1898 is in many parts oriented on the draft formulation of the German Civil Code of 1900. Yet whereas Japanese legal scholars have over the years continually maintained a focus on German law, it is only in the last three decades that a steadily growing interest in Japanese law can be witnessed within Germany. The significance of Japan as the world's third largest economic power has, moreover, made ready access to its legal system in Western languages indispensible.

Prof. Dr. Harald Baum is Vice-President of the DJJV and the founder and head of the Japan Unit at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Law. He is also the founding editor of the Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht / Journal of Japanese Law; in publication since 1996, it is the world's only ongoing journal reporting on current developments in the field of Japanese law.

Prof. Dr. Moritz Bälz, LLM (Harvard), holds the chair for Japanese Law and its Cultural Foundation at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. He is a active longtime member of the DJJV and former fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and a co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht / Journal of Japanese Law.

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For readers of German active in scholarship, commerce or politics, the Encyclopedia presents Japanese commercial and business law in a manner unique for the European continent. The work does not require any familiarity with the Japanese language, and, to the greatest extent possible, reference is made to other Western-language materials and publications. Building from their historical, methodological and institutional background, the work outlines approximately 30 different areas and in so doing effectively encompasses Japanese civil law, commercial law, business law and procedural law. All entries have been updated through 2010. Additionally, the 1700 page volume is supplemented by a comprehensive index of laws and statutes, a nearly 100-page long semi-annotated bibliography of more recent Western publications on Japanese law and a German-Japanese glossary of legal terms.

For historical reasons, the relationship between Germany and Japan in respect of law is quite close. Not least, it was German jurists who were active participants in the construction of the modern Japanese legal system over 100 years ago. The still presently applicable Japanese Civil Code of 1896 and 1898 is in many parts oriented on the draft formulation of the German Civil Code of 1900. Yet whereas Japanese legal scholars have over the years continually maintained a focus on German law, it is only in the last three decades that a steadily growing interest in Japanese law can be witnessed within Germany. The significance of Japan as the world's third largest economic power has, moreover, made ready access to its legal system in Western languages indispensible.

Prof. Dr. Harald Baum is Vice-President of the DJJV and the founder and head of the Japan Unit at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Law. He is also the founding editor of the Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht / Journal of Japanese Law; in publication since 1996, it is the world's only ongoing journal reporting on current developments in the field of Japanese law.

Prof. Dr. Moritz Bälz, LLM (Harvard), holds the chair for Japanese Law and its Cultural Foundation at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. He is a active longtime member of the DJJV and former fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and a co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht / Journal of Japanese Law.

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