All Issues

The Honorable Dr. Soji Yamamoto (1928-2013)

1

Professor Akira Kotera (1952-2014)

4

Tatsuki Nishioka and Takako Tsujisaka

Introductory Note: Japan’s Conclusion of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspect of International Child Abduction

7

Masayuki Tanamura

International Child Abduction Cases and the Act for the Implementation of the Hague Convention
— Impact on Domestic Cases and Family Law —

24

Masako Murakami

Case Proceedings for the Return of an Abducted Child and the Compulsory Execution in Japan

33

Martina Erb-Klünemann

The 1980 Hague Convention and Mediation
— A German Perspective —

56

Nigel Vaughan Lowe

Return Orders under the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
— The Issues Facing the Japanese Courts —

77

OKUBO Takeharu

NISHI Amane and International Law
— A Pioneer’s Struggle with European Jurisprudence in Early Modern Japan —

102

Urs Matthias Zachmann

TAOKA Ryoichi’s Contribution to International Legal Studies in Pre-war Japan: With Special Reference to Questions of the Law of War

134

Yuki Asano

From the Theory of Private Law to Legal Pluralism: On the Reconstruction of Private Law in the Age of Globalization

163

Dai Yokomizo

Conflict of Laws in the Era of Globalization

179

Takeshi Fujitani

The Law, Governance, and Society in the Context of Globalization
— Renewed Formation of the Law and Sovereign States —

195

Hiroki Harada

Establishing Partnership between Public and Private Law in Globalized Policy-Making and Enforcement Processes: A Focus on Social Security Law

217

NASU Kosuke

Does the Concept of Law Need to Be Revised in the Face of Globalization?

228

Yuko Okano

Japanese Court Cases Involving East Asian Citizens and Corporations
— Law Applicable to International Transactions with Chinese, Taiwanese, and Korean Parties before Japanese Courts —

243

Satoshi Watanabe

A Study of a Series of Cases Caused Non-recognition of a Judicial Judgment between Japan and Mainland China
— A Cross-border Garnishment Order of the Japanese Court Issued to a Chinese Company as a Third-party Debtor —

287

Maki Nishiumi

The Cultural Aspects of Sustainable Development

305

Tatsuya Abe

Effectiveness of the Institutional Approach to an Alleged Violation of International Law: The Case of Syrian Chemical Weapons

333

Tomoaki Ishigaki

Defining the Future by Studying the Past: A Negotiator’s Perspective on the Arms Trade Treaty

371

Tadashi Kanzaki

Determination of the National Laws of Two Persons with Nationality of the Same Non-unified State

415

Yukiko Oda

Japanese Jurisdiction of International Child Custody Cases and Other Parent-child Matters

429

SHIN Hae Bong and Takeo Horiguchi

Jinrui no Michishirube toshiteno Kokusaiho — Heiwa, Jiyu, Hanei wo Mezashite: Yokota Yozo Sensei Koki-Kinen Ronbun-Shu [Humane International Law for Peace, Liberty, and Prosperity: Essays in Celebration of the 70th Birthday of Professor Yozo Yokota], edited by Hiroko Akizuki, Kazuhiro Nakatani, and Maki Nishiumi. Tokyo: Kokusai Shoin, 2011.

439

Béatrice Jaluzot

Business Law in Japan — Cases and Comments. Intellectual Property, Civil, Commercial and International Private Law — Writings in Honour of Harald Baum, edited by Moritz Bältz, Marc Dernauer, Christopher Heath, and Anja Petersen-Padlberg. Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer Law International, 2012.

444

Dário Moura Vicente

Intellectual Property in the Global Arena. Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, and the Recognition of Judgments in Europe, Japan and the US, edited by Jürgen Basedow, Toshiyuki Kono, and Axel Metzger. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010.

446

Gabriele Koziol

Deutschland und Japan: Zwei Ökonomien im rechtlichen Dialog [Germany and Japan: A Legal Dialogue between Two Economies] (Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht, Special Issue 6), edited by Harald Baum. Köln: Carl Heymanns Verlag, 2012.

450

Yoshimasa Furuta

Kokusai Keiyaku Jitsumu no tame no Yobo Hogaku — Junkyoho, Saiban Kankatsu, Chusai Joko [Fundamentals of Drafting Boilerplate Clauses in International Contracts], by Masato Dogauchi. Tokyo: Shoji Homu, 2012.

453

Dai Tamada

Kokusaiho ni Okeru Kenketsu-Hoju no Hori [Jurisprudence on the Filling of Lacunae in International Law], by Jun’ichi Eto. Tokyo: Yuhikaku, 2012.

455

Shizuka Sakamaki

Syukenmenjo no Kokusaiho [Public International Law Aspects of Foreign State Immunity], by Tomonori Mizushima. Nagoya: The University of Nagoya Press, 2012.

457

ZHANG Xinjun

Guo ji li fa: Guo ji fa de fa yuan lun [International Lawmaking: Sources of Law in International Law Theory], by Shinya Murase, translated by Yihe Qin. Beijing: People’s Public Security University of China Press, 2012.

461

Kohki Abe

Fuhenteki Kokusaisyakai eno Hou no Chousen — Serita Kentarou Sensei Koki Kinen [Legal Challenges to Establish a Universal International Society:
Festschrift for Professor Kentaro Serita on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday], edited by Shigeki Sakamoto and Kimio Yakushiji. Tokyo: Shinzansya, 2013.

465

Yoshiyuki Lee-Iwamoto

Kokusaisaiban no Hanketsukouron [Legal Effect of Jugdment of Interantional Court and Tribunal], by Dai Tamada. Tokyo: Yuhikaku, 2012.

469

Kinji Akashi

Theory and Politics of the Law of Nations: Political Bias in International Law Discourse of Seven German Court Councilors in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, by Tetsuya Toyoda. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2011.

472

Ai Murakami

Nijuichi Seiki Kokusai Shiho no Kadai [Challenges for Private International Law of the Twenty-First Century], by Koresuke Yamauchi. Tokyo: Shinzansha, 2012.

476

Supreme Court (Grand Bench), Decision, September 4, 2013

Article 900(iv) of the Civil Code — Discrimination against Children out of Wedlock with Respect to Their Statutory Inheritance Share — Equality under the Law — Article 14(1) of the Constitution — the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights — the Convention on the Rights of the Child

480

Tokyo District Court, Judgment, April 16, 2012

Chemical Weapons Abandoned by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in China during WWII — Damage to Local Residents — Obligation to Destroy Abandoned Chemical Weapons under the CWC — Memorandum of Understanding on the Destruction of Abandoned Chemical Weapons in China — Unlawfulness of the Omission

487

Tokyo District Court, Judgment, February 1, 2013

Piracy on the Arabian Sea — Conformity of the Act on Punishment of and Measures against Acts of Piracy to the Constitution — Surrender and the Criminal Jurisdiction of a State Other Than the Seizing State — Appropriateness of the Criminal Procedure

496

Kyoto District Court, Judgment, October 7, 2013

Hate Speech — Tort — Racial Discrimination — Articles 1(1), 2(1), and 6 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

503

Tokyo High Court, Decision, November 2, 2012

Act on Recognition of and Assistance for Foreign Insolvency Proceedings — Primary Foreign Proceedings — Centre of Main Interests — UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency

511

Tokyo High Court, Judgment, February 28, 2013

Appeal Case Claiming Damages – Container Vessel Accident in the Mediterranean — Place Where the Facts Constituting the Cause Occurred — Applicable Law — Appeal Partially Approved

517

Tokyo District Court, Decision, April 26, 2013

Execution of Foreign Judicial Decisions — International Choice of Law — Offset of Judgments

522

Tokyo District Court, Judgment, August 23, 2013

Governing Law of an Arbitration Agreement — Form Requirements for an Arbitration Agreement — Mistake

526

Tokyo District Court, Judgment, October 21, 2013

International Jurisdiction — the Place Where the Tort Took Place — Special Circumstances

531

543

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* Selected Treaties Concluded and Signed by Japan are available on-line (click here).

I. National Legislation

Act for Implementation of the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction

563

II. Other Documents

Japan – Taiwan Fishery Arrangement

596

Cabinet Decision on Development of Seamless Security Legislation to Ensure Japan’s Survival and Protect Its People, and Other Related Documents

601

I. Activities of the International Law Association of Japan

664

II. Activities of Related Academic Associations in Japan

670

681

TABLE OF CASES

684

TABLE OF TREATIES AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS

687