Volume 67 (2024)
CONTENTS
ARTICLES
NEW FRONTIERS OF STATE JURISDICTION
- Akio Morita and Mari Takeuchi
- Introductory Note
- 1
- Cedric Ryngaert
- Weaponizing Economic Interdependence via Extraterritorial Chokepoint Jurisdiction: An International Law Perspective
- 4
- ISHII Yurika
- Limits of State Jurisdiction in Cyberspace
— The Legality of the Cross-Border Remote Access and the Use of Policeware —
- 26
- Makoto Seta
- Port State Jurisdiction as Universal Jurisdiction over Fisheries
- 57
- Takayo Ando
- Changes in the Legal Structure of the Aut Dedere Aut Judicare Principle
— Focusing on the Requirements for the Obligation to Exercise Jurisdiction —
- 84
- MORITA Akio
- Theoretical Analysis of Conflicting Approaches on State Jurisdiction
— Focusing on “Liberté” and Conflicting “Basic Positions” —
- 126
LEGAL ANALYSIS ON SUCCESSION SUBSTITUTES
- Dai Yokomizo
- Introductory Note
- 162
- OSHIMA Lisa
- The Potential and Limitations of Contracts That Function as Succession Substitutes
- 164
- Dai Yokomizo
- Succession Substitutes and Japanese Conflict of Laws: Including the Possibility of Introducing Limited Professio Juris to Japanese Choice-of-Law Rule Relating to Succession
- 180
- Takami Hayashi
- Conflict-of-Law Issues Regarding Succession Substitutes with a Focus on Trusts
- 195
- Charlotte Wendland
- The Law Applicable to Succession Substitutes: European Perspective
- 214
- Takeshi Fujitani
- Succession Substitutes and Taxation
— An Analysis from the Perspective of Party Autonomy and Tax Neutrality —
- 253
HUMAN RIGHTS APPROACH TO REGULATE ARMED CONFLICTS:
BEYOND THE LEX GENERALIS/SPECIALIS FRAMEWORK: PART TWO
- Megumi Ochi
- The Other Side of the Human Rights Approach to the Reparation for Victims of Armed Conflict
— The Coalition of the Sword and Shield Function for Transformative Reparation —
- 272
- Yaël Ronen
- Occupation, the Right to Self-Determination, and the Law
- 296
- Yutaka Arai-Takahashi
- Digging the Skewed Gendered Surface
— The Rights of Female Prisoners of War Under International Humanitarian Law —
- 333
- Shuichi Furuya
- Conclusion: Why Do We Tend to Apply International Human Rights Law to Armed Conflicts?
- 394
JAPANESE DIGEST OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
- Yoshinori Abe
- Act on the Promotion of Ensuring National Security Through Integrated Implementation of Economic Measures
Promotion of Economic Security — Concept of Economic Security — Basic Policy of the Act — Four Systems of Economic Security Policy — Ensuring a Stable Supply of Critical Products — Ensuring the Stable Provision of Essential Infrastructure Services — Enhancing Development of Critical Technologies — Non-Disclosure of Selected Patent Applications — Sincere Implementation of International Agreements — Relationship with WTO Agreements
- 404
- Tatsuya Abe and Yurika Ishii
- National Security Strategy of Japan
Background — New National Security Strategy of Japan — Counterattack Capabilities — Active Cyber Defense — Space Security Policies and International Cooperation
- 419
- Yuko Osakada
- The Ainu Policy Promotion Act (2019)
Ainu People — Indigenous People of Japan — The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples — The Ainu Policy Promotion Act — Recognition of Indigenous Status — Grant Delivery — Non-Discrimination
- 432
CASES AND ISSUES IN JAPANESE PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW
- Yusuke Tanemura
- Breach of the Arbitrator’s Obligation of Disclosure in Article 18(4) of the Arbitration Act
- 446
- Naohiro Kitasaka
- Application Mutatis Mutandis of Art. 117(1) of the Child Abduction Convention Implementation Act to a Return Agreement in an In-Court Conciliation
- 460
BOOK REVIEWS
- Naozumi Kurokami
- Kokusaikeizaishakaiho de Heiwa o Tsukuru [Creating Peace by International Economic-Social Law], by Shin-ichi Ago. Tokyo: Shinzansha, 2022. Pp. xi, 205.
- 471
- Miyako Tatematsu
- Non-Rufurumangensoku to Gaikokujin no Taikyokyosei [Non-Refoulement Principles and the Deportation of Foreigners], by Yukari Ando, Tokyo: Shinzansha, 2022. Pp. viii, 330.
- 474
- Tetsuya Yamada
- Okinawa no Hikinobasareta Senryo: “Amerika Yu” no Hoteki Kiban [Prolonged Occupation of Okinawa: Legal Framework of “Era of America”], by Kyo Arai. Tokyo: Yuhikaku, 2023. Pp. viii, 349.
- 477
- Masahiro Kurosaki
- Nittaikeizaikoryu to Kokusaiho [Japan-Taiwan Economic Exchanges and International Law], edited by Hiroyuki Banzai. Tokyo: Seibundo, 2022. Pp. xii, 334.
- 481
- Tatsuya Abe
- Naisei Kansho no Kokusaiho — Ho no Tekiyo Mondai eno Rekishiteki Shiza [Intervention in the Internal Affairs of States and International Law: A Historical Perspective on the Applicability of International Law], by Iwao Fujisawa. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2022. Pp. xii, 367.
- 486
- NISUGI Kento
- Corporate Environmental Responsibility in Investor-State Dispute Settlement: The Unexhausted Potential of Current Mechanisms, by Tomoko Ishikawa. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xxxix, 302.
- 489
- Shinji Tokugawa
- Saibankan Taiwa: Kokusaika suru Shiho no Kyodo to Kobo [Judicial Dialogue: Cooperation and Competition Among Courts and Tribunals], edited by Yoichi Ito, Tokyo: Nihon Hyoronsha, 2023. Pp. xxiii, 322.
- 492
- SHIN Hae Bong
- Domestic Application of International Law: Focusing on Direct Applicability, by Yuji Iwasawa. Leiden: Brill, 2023. Pp. xxix, 314.
- 498
- Kei Nakajima
- Kokusaikankei to Ho no Shihai: OWADA Hisashi Kokusaishihosaibansho Saibankan Tainin Kinen [International Relations and the Rule of Law: Festschrift for Judge Hisashi Owada in Commemoration of His Retirement from the International Court of Justice], edited by Yuji Iwasawa and Masataka Okano, Tokyo: Shinzansha, 2021. Pp. xxiii, 1446.
- 501
- Xi Feng
- Chugoku ni okeru Kokusaitorihikifunso Kaiketsuho [International Commercial Dispute Resolution Law in China], by Yukio Kajita. Tokyo: Nihonhyoronsha, 2022. Pp. 344.
- 506
- Ryoshi Fukushima
- Kokusaihotetsugaku no Fukken [Reclaiming the Philosophy of International Law], by Shun Kaku. Tokyo: Kobundo, 2022. Pp. iv, 299.
- 510
- Takao Suami
- Tagenshugi no Kokusaiho — Kokurenho to Jinkenho no Kosaku — [Pluralism and International Law: The Intersection Between United Nations Law and Human Rights Law], by Akira Kato. Tokyo: Shinzansha, 2022. Pp. xii, 415.
- 513
- Masayo Kataoka
- Kokusaidairishokeiyakuho no Kenkyu [International Aspects of the Law of Commercial Agency], by KIM Mihwa. Tokyo: Shinzansha, 2022. Pp. xii, 382.
- 516
- KAKU Shun
- Ippan Kokusaihoron Josetsu: Kanshukokusaiho Gainen no Tenkai to Riron Kosei [The Foundations of General International Law: The Development of the Idea of Customary International Law and Its Theoretical Construction], by KOMORI Teruo. Tokyo: Shinzansha, 2022. Pp. xviii, 391.
- 519
- Yuka Fukunaga
- The International Law of Sovereign Debt Dispute Settlement, by Kei Nakajima. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xxx, 339.
- 522
- KIHARA Masaki
- Kokusai Keiji Tetsuzuki Ho no Genri: Kokusai Kyodo niokeru Puremisu no Tokutei [The Rationales of the International Criminal Procedure Law: Identifying the Premises of International Cooperation], by OCHI Megumi. Tokyo: Shinzansha, 2022. Pp.292.
- 526
- Kuniko Ozaki
- Multilayered Structures of International Criminal Law, by Hiromi Sato. Cham: Springer, 2021. Pp. ix, 221.
- 529
- Tetsuya Toyoda
- Kokusaiho o Amu: Kokusai Renmei no Hotenka Jigyo to Nihon [Weaving International Law: Japan and the Work of the League of Nations for the Codification of International Law], by Rikiya Takahashi. Nagoya: Nagoya Daigaku Shuppankai, 2023. Pp. vii, 480, 55.
- 532
- Hajime Sakai
- Ko no Hikiwatashi-Tetsuzuki no Riron to Jitsumu [Theory and Practice of the Procedure for Handing-Over a Child in Custody Disputes], edited by Kazuhiko Yamamoto. Tokyo: Yuhikaku, 2022. Pp. x, 373.
- 536
- Satoru Taira
- Kokusaihochitsujo to Gurobaru Keizai [International Legal Order and Global Economy], edited by Masaharu Yanagihara, Koichi Morikawa, Atsuko Kanehara, and Taro Hamada. Tokyo: Shinzansha, 2021. Pp. xvi, 614.
- 541
JUDICIAL DECISIONS IN JAPAN
I. Public International Law
- Tokyo High Court, Judgment, February 16, 2023
- The Japan-Luxembourg Tax Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation — Treaty Interpretation — Translation Prepared by the Government — Objects and Purposes — Ordinary Meaning of the Treaty Text
- 550
- Osaka District Court, Judgment, March 15, 2023
- Refugee Status — Fear of Persecution Due to Sexual Orientation — Homosexuality — Standard of Proof
- 558
- Tokyo District Court, Judgment, March 16, 2023
- Tax Exemption — Retirement Pensions of Former ICJ Judges — Article 32 of the ICJ Statute — Treaty Interpretation
- 566
II. Private Interantional Law
- Osaka High Court, Adjudication, May 26, 2021
- International Child Abduction — Habitual Residence — Infant
- 581
- Tokyo High Court, Judgment, January 25, 2023
- Applicable Law to Vicarious Liability — Traffic Accidents of an Employee on Overseas Business Trips — Escape Clause
- 584
- Tokyo High Court, Judgment, October 30, 2023
- State Immunity — Unrecognized States — Jurisdiction — Place of Tort — Continuous Tort
- 589
- Tokyo District Court, Judgment, May 9, 2022
- Validity of Agreements on Jurisdiction — Sea Carriage Contracts — Surrender Bill of Lading (B/L)
- 594
- Tokyo District Court, Judgment, March 27, 2023
- Applicable Law — Labor Contracts — Mandatory Provisions — Place with Which the Labor Contract Is Most Closely Connected — Place of Business at Which the Worker Was Employed — International Airline Cabin Crew
- 597
- Yokohama Family Court, Judgment, March 30, 2021
- Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments on Child Custody
- 602
CHRONOLOGY OF JAPANESE FOREIGN AFFAIRS IN 2023
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF TREATIES AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS CONCLUDED BY JAPAN IN 2023
- 619
- * Selected Treaties Concluded and Signed by Japan are available on-line (click here).
DOCUMENTS
- 1. Written Statement and Oral Statements of Japan Presented in the Advisory Proceeding on the Legal Consequences Arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem.
- 622
- 2. Written Statement of Japan Presented in the Advisory Proceeding on the Request Submitted to the Tribunal by the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law.
- 639
ACTIVITIES
- I. Activities of the International Law Association of Japan
- 642
- II. Activities of Related Academic Associations in Japan
- 647
- 1. Kokusaiho Gakkai (Japanese Society of International Law [JSIL], established in 1897)
- 647
- 2. Kokusai Shiho Gakkai (Private International Law Association of Japan, established in 1949)
- 659
- 3. Sekaiho Gakkai (Japanese Association of World Law, established in 1965)
- 664
INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSIONS TO THE JYIL
