Volume 54 (2011)
CONTENTS

Feature Articles

The Contribution of International Environmental Law to International Law: Past Achievements and Future Expectation

Edith Brown Weiss
 
The Evolution of International Environmental Law
1
Akiho Shibata
 
International Environmental Lawmaking in the First Decade of the Twenty-First Century: The Form and Process
62
Daniel Bodansky
 
Implementation of International Environmental Law
96
Mari Koyano
 
The Significance of Procedural Obligations in International Environmental Law: Sovereignty and International Co-operation
97
Peter H. Sand
 
Environmental Dispute Settlement and the Experience of the UN Compensation Commission
151
Ellen Hey
 
The Interplay between Multilateral Environmental and Fisheries Law:
A Struggle to Sustainably Regulate Economic Activity —Including a Case Study of the North Sea—
190
Erik Franckx and Koen Van den Bossche
 
The Influence of Environmental Law on the Development of the Law of the Sea: CITES and the International Law of Fisheries
218


New Japanese Rule on International Jurisdiction: Part One

Masato Dogauchi
 
New Japanese Rules on International Jurisdiction: General Observation
260
Shunichiro Nakano
 
Agreement on Jurisdiction
278
Akira Saito
 
International Civil Jurisdiction Based on the Place of Performance of Obligation Relating to A Contract
295
Kazuhiko Yamamoto
 
International Jurisdiction Based on the Location of Property
311
Yoshihisa Hayakawa
 
Lis Pendens
324


Public International Law

Yutaka Arai-Takahashi
 
The Principle of Humanity under International Humanitarian Law in the “Is/Ought” Dichotomy
333


Note


Tomohiko Kobayashi
 
Pinning Down the Circling Concept of Circumvention: A Comprehensive Approach to Anti-Circumvention Disciplines under the WTO Agreement on Agriculture
365

Special Lecture


Shigeru Oda
 
Taiwan as Sovereign and Independent State—Status of Taiwan under International Law—
386

JAPANESE DIGEST OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

Yumi Nishimura
 
Inviolability and Protection of Diplomatic and Consular Premises (1990-2011)
408
Mari Takeuchi
  Passive Personality Principle in the Japanese Penal Code
418
Shotaro Hamamoto
  Collision between Japan Coast Guard Patrol Vessels and a Chinese Fishing Trawler in the Waters off the Senkaku Islands
434

CASES AND ISSUES IN JAPANESE PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW

Fumihiko Sato
 
Acquiring Japanese Nationality through Recognition
443

BOOK REVIEWS

 

The Law of Occupation: Continuity and Change of International Humanitarian Law, and Its Interaction with Human Rights Law, by Yutaka Arai-Takahashi. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009.

 
Kentaro Wani
456

Kokusaishakai ni okeru Shitekikankei no Kiritsu to Funsokaiketsu — Kokusaishiho no Keizaibunseki: Josetsu [Governing Cross-Border Private Relationships and Conflict Resolution: A Preliminary Economic Analysis of Private International Law], by Kazuaki Kagami. Tokyo: Mitsubishi Keizai Kenkyujo, 2009.

 
Hatsuru Morita
459

Public Interest Rules of International Law: Towards Effective Implementation, edited by Teruo Komori & Karel Wellens. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009.

 
Mika Hayashi
461

Kokusai Toshi Kyotei: Chusai ni yoru Hoteki Hogo [International Investment Agreement: Legal Protection through Arbitration], edited by Akira Kotera. Tokyo: Sanseido, 2010.

 
Tomohiko Kobayashi
464

Jieiken no Kisou: Kokuren-Kensho ni itaru Rekishiteki Tenkai [The Right of Self-Defence in International Law: From the Caroline Incident to the United Nations Charter], by Tadashi Mori. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2009.

 
Masahiko Asada
467

Kokuren Anpori no Kino Henka [Changing Functions of the UN Security Council], edited by Shinya Murase. Tokyo: Toshindo, 2009.

 
Koichi Morikawa
471

Henkakuki no Kokusai Ho Iinkai: Yamada Chusei Taishi Sanju Kinen [The International Law Commission at Time of Reform: In Celebration of the 80th Birthday of Ambassador Chusei Yamada], edited by Shinya Murase and Koji Tsuruoka. Tokyo: Shinzansha, 2011.

 
Yuji Iwasawa
475

Kokusai Shakai to Soft Law [Soft Law on International Issues], edited by Nobuhiro Nakayama, Akira Kotera and Masato Dogauchi. Tokyo: Yuhikaku Press, 2008.

 
Toshiyuki Kono and Junichi Eto
478

Jinkenjoyaku no Gendaitekitenkai [Contemporary Developments in Human Rights Conventions], by SHIN Hea-Bong. Tokyo: Shinzansha, 2009.

 
Shinji Tokugawa
483

Kokusaishiho oyobi Shinzokuho [Private International Law and Family Law], by Seiichi Tamura. Tokyo: Shinzansha, 2008.

 
Aki Kitazawa
485

Dentoteki Churitsu Seido no Hoteki Seikaku: Senso ni Makikomarenai Kenri to sono Jouken [Neutrality in International Law: From the 16th Century to 1945], by Kentaro Wani. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2010.

 
Kyo Arai
487

Kaijyo Hoan Housei — Kaiyouho to Kokunaiho no Kousaku [Law on the Coast Guard — The Interface of the Law of the Sea and the National Law], edited by Soji Yamamoto. Tokyo: Sanseido Press, 2009.

 
Masashi Tomioka
491

JUDICIAL DECISIONS IN JAPAN

 
I. Public International Law
Supreme Court, Judgment, October 29, 2009 499
Legal Double Taxation — Taxation on a Specified Foreign Subsidiary Company in Accordance with Article 66-6(1) of the Act on Special Measures Concerning Taxation — Article 7(1) of the Agreement between the Government of Japan and the Government of the Republic of Singapore for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income — Supplementary Means of Interpretation of Treaties as Provided for in Article 32 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties — Commentary on the OECD Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital
Tokyo High Court, Judgment, May 27, 2009 506
Definition of Refugee — Situation in Myanmar — The Effect of Activities of a Wife on the Issue Whether Her Husband Is Qualified as a Refugee
Nagoya High Court (Kanazawa Branch), Judgment, March 8, 2010 514
Forced Labor during World War II — Individual’s Right to Bring Claims against the Wrongful State — Articles 2(1) and (3) of the Agreement between Japan and the Republic of Korea on the Settlement of Problems Concerning Property and Claims and on Economic Co-operation — The Convention Concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour — The Slavery Convention and Customary Rules on the Prohibition of Slavery
II. Private Interantional Law
Supreme Court, Decision, August 4, 2010
Osaka High Court, Decision, February 18, 2010
523
Validity and Recognition of Foreign Judgments — Divorce — Child Custody — Habeas Corpus Act
Intellectual Property High Court, Judgment, September 15, 2010 529
International Adjudicatory Jurisdiction — Whether Offer to Assign Goods Took Place in Japan — Content of Website as Evidence of Offer to Assign — Code of Civil Procedure Article 5(9) — Injunction Pursuant to Patent Act Article 100(1)
Tokyo District Court, Judgment, November 17, 2009 536
International Adjudicatory Jurisdiction — Jurisdiction by Agreement — Jurisdiction by Submission — General Jurisdiction — Special Jurisdiction — Jurisdiction Based on the Place of Performance — Jurisdiction Based on the Location of the Defendant’s Seizable Property
Tokyo District Court, Judgment, April 15, 2010 540
Enforcement of Foreign Judgments — Default Judgment — Unauthorized Use of Trade Secrets — Non-Compete Clause
Yokohama Family Court, Odawara Branch, Decision, January 12, 2010 543
Parental Custody — Applicable Law — International Adjudicatory Jurisdiction

CHRONOLOGY OF JAPANESE FOREIGN AFFAIRS
546

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF TREATIES AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS CONCLUDED BY JAPAN IN 2010
564

DOCUMENTS

I. Treaties 568
II. National Legislation  

Act for Partial Revision of Code of Civil Procedure and Civil Provisional Remedies Act

723
III. Other Documents 733

ACTIVITIES

I. Activities of the International Law Association of Japan 780
II. Activities of Related Academic Associations in Japan 786

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSIONS TO THE JAPANESE YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
794
TABLE OF CASES (pdf) 797
TABLE OF TREATIES AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS (pdf) 802