Volume 61 (2018)
CONTENTS
ARTICLES
DEVELOPMENT OF THE LAW OF THE SEA IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE AND PROSPECT
- Akio Morita
- Introductory Note
- 1
- Akio Morita
- Interference with Ships on the High Seas: Historical Development Hidden in the "Right of Visit" Argument
- 4
- Kentaro Wani
- Development of the Law of the Sea and the Legal Status of International Strait in Time of International Armed Conflict
- 39
- Shizuka Sakamaki
- Measures Against Non-Innocent Passage of Warships and Other Government Ships Operated for Non-Commercial Purposes
- 81
- Tomoaki Nishimura
- Complications and Mutual Supportiveness Between the Law of the Sea and International Environmental Law: A Study on Climate Geoengineering
- 111
- Dai Tamada
- UNCLOS Dispute Settlement Mechanism: Contribution to the Integrity of UNCLOS
- 132
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF CONSUMER COLLECTIVE REDRESS
- Dai Yokomizo
- Introductory Note
- 167
- Kazuhiko Yamamoto
- Special Proceedings for the Collective Redress for Property Damage Incurred by Consumers
— About So-Called "Japanese Class Action" —
- 168
- Dai Yokomizo
- Consumer Collective Redress and Japanese Conflict of Laws
- 189
- Stefaan Voet
- Europe's Collective Redress Conundrum
- 205
- Catherine Piché & Geneviève Saumier
- Consumer Collective Redress in Canada
- 231
HALF A CENTURY WITH THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS: LONG-TERM IMPACTS ON THE WORLD, ASIA AND JAPAN: PART THREE
- Lauri Mälksoo
- The Controversy over Human Rights, UN Covenants, and the Dissolution of the Soviet Union
- 260
Private Inteernational Law
- Masato Dogauchi
- The Aftermath of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Accident: How Japanese Lawyers Have Been Playing Their Roles with Regard to the Nuclear Damage?
- 284
BOOK REVIEWS
- Yoshiko Naiki
- Globaruka to Kouhou/Shihou-kannkei no Saihen [Globalization and Reformation of Boundaries Between Public and Private Law], edited by Yuki Asano, Hiroki Harada, Takeshi Fujitani, and Dai Yokomizo. Tokyo: Koubundou, 2015
- 328
- Tetsuo Sato
- Whaling in the Antarctic: Significance and Implications of the ICJ Judgment, edited by Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Dai Tamada. Leiden/Boston, Brill/Nijhoff, 2016.
- 333
- Yusuke Takahashi
- Shotoku Kazei no Kokusaiteki Sokumen [International Aspects of Income Taxation], by Keigo Fuchi. Tokyo: Yuhikaku, 2016.
- 340
- Ryoshi Fukushima
- Ippankokusaiho-chitsujyo no Henyou: Kokusaihouseido no Henkakatei to Kihanteki-seitouka [The Changing Structure of the General International Public Order: The Process of Change and Normative Legitimation of the International Law System] by Teruo Komori. Tokyo: Shinzansya, 2015.
- 343
- Makoto Seta
- Nijyu-isseiki no Kokusaiho to Kaiyouho no Kadai [The Challenges to International Law and the Law of the Sea in the 21st Century], edited by Yoshiro Matsui, Masashi Tomioka, Shigeki Sakamoto, Kimio Yakushiji, Takanobu Kiriyama, and Tomoaki Nishimura. Tokyo: Toshindo, 2016.
- 346
- Bruno Simma & Daniel Litwin
- International Law in a Transcivilizational World, by Onuma Yasuaki. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- 351
- Goro Toda
- Kokusai-kihan toshite no Jinken-ho to Jindo-ho [Human Rights and Humanitarian Law as International Norms] by Azusa Shinohara. Tokyo: Toshindo, 2017.
- 357
- Tomohiro Mikanagi
- Adatci Mineitciro — Nihon no Gaikokan kara Sekai no Saibankan e [Mineitciro Adatci — From a Japanese Diplomat to a World Judge], edited by Masaharu Yanagihara and Hatsue Shinohara. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2017.
- 360
- Kyo Arai
- Kaijyo-soshi Kodo no Hoteki-syoso [Legal Aspects of Maritime Interception/Interdiction Operations: Policing Specific Prohibited Traffic on the High Seas Under International Law], Yasuyuki Yoshida. Osaka: Osaka University Press, 2016.
- 365
JUDICIAL DECISIONS IN JAPAN
I. Public International Law
- Takamatsu High Court, Judgment, April 25, 2016
- Hate Speech — The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination — Relevance of the Convention in Interpreting Domestic Laws
- 370
- Nagoya High Court, Judgment, September 7, 2016
- Eligibility for Refugee Status — Burden and Degree of Proof — Situation in Nepal — Article 1 of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees — Handbook and Guidelines on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status
- 374
- Nagoya High Court, Judgment, November 30, 2016
- Factors to be Taken into Consideration in Determination of Special Permission to Stay — Continuous De Facto Marriage and Family Life — Criminal Offence and Extenuating Circumstances
- 381
- Naha District Court (Okinawa Branch), Judgment, February 9, 2017
- State Immunity — Activities of Foreign Armed Forces Stationing in the Forum State with Its Consent — Tort Exception — Relationship Between the United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Customary Rules on State Immunity
- 386
II. Private Interantional Law
- Supreme Court (3rd Petty Bench), Judgment, December 12, 2017
- Challenge to Arbitral Award — Arbitrator Conflict of Interest — Disclosure of Conflict of Interest
- 395
- Supreme Court (3rd Petty Bench), Judgment, 12 December 2017
- Japanese Anti-Monopoly Act — Extraterritorial Application — Price-Fixing Cartel
- 399
- Supreme Court (1st Petty Bench), Decision, December 21, 2017
- International Child Abduction — Modification of the Order to Return
- 402
- Tokyo High Court, Judgment, November 25, 2015
- Enforcement of Judgment — Defamation — Reciprocity
- 407
- Tokyo District Court, Judgment, January 17, 2017
- International Adjudicatory Jurisdiction over Consumer Contracts — Rescindment of Contracts by Fraud — Overriding Mandatory Provision
- 412
- Tokyo High Court, Judgment, October 25, 2017
- Exclusive Jurisdiction Clauses Commercial Contracts — Public Policy — Civil Remedy — International Private Law — Limitation of Party Autonomy by Mandatory Rules — Abuse of Superior Bargaining Position — Article 24 of the Antimonopoly Act — Article 709 of the Civil Code
- 416
- Shizuoka District Court, Judgment, December 2, 2015
- 512
CHRONOLOGY OF JAPANESE FOREIGN AFFAIRS IN 2017
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF TREATIES AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS CONCLUDED BY JAPAN IN 2017
- 438
- * Selected Treaties Concluded and Signed by Japan are available on-line (click here).
DOCUMENTS
- Japan’s Response to the Letter Issued by Prof. Joseph Cannataci, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy, on 18th May
- 442
ACTIVITIES
- I. Activities of the International Law Association of Japan
- 456
- II. Activities of Related Academic Associations in Japan
- 461
INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSIONS TO THE JAPANESE YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
