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Researching Japanese Law

In addition to ANJeL’s collaboration with AsianLII ANJeL is involved in developing or promoting several other tools for effective research in Japanese law.

1. The CCH Japan Business Law Guide, which is a looseleaf and online service, is maintained with the assistance of a number of ANJeL co-directors, members and associates. Find out more.

2. The entry "Japanese Law: An Overview" in Jan Smits (ed) Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (Edward Elgar, 2006) by Luke Nottage and Professor Masaki Abe has been uploaded onto AsianLII and is available here.

3. Links to other websites:

• Translations of Japanese Laws and Regulations (Japan Cabinet Secretariat's legal translation project).
• The Japanese Law Translation System website, a Ministry of Justice service provided through Nagoya University was offers one stop access to a database of Japanese laws translated in accordance with the Japanese government’s legal Standard Bilingual Dictionary (SBD) complete with the most recent edition of the SBD itself and a keyword-in-context search function.
• Asian Law Centre Bibliography (Melbourne University's searchable database of citations to Asian Law related references)
• Japanese Legal Research (University of Washington's guide to searching Japanese law materials).
• Mika's English Translations of Japanese Laws (a website of links to English translation of Japanese laws available on the Internet).
• Australian Research Network on the Japanese Economy (ARNJE - the first-ever electronic network of economists working on Japan, launched by the Australia-Japan Research Centre)
• East Asia Forum (a Forum encompassing policy matters and placing Japan in a regional and global perspective).
• Japanese Law and the Asia-Pacific (which collates most of Luke Nottage's own Japanese Law related blogs)

4. The Japan Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA) and a number of law firms in Japan publish information in English on areas of Japanese law. A list of these sources as of April 2009 prepared by ANJeL research assistants is available here.

5. A major legal publisher in Japan, Daiichi Hoki, is a Research Sponsor for ANJeL.

6. The Waseda University Institute of Comparative Law (CLAW) has commenced a monthly electronic newsletter to disseminate up-to-date information about Japanese Law in English, including recent legislation, upcoming seminars and discussion of current trends and topics. Find out more. To subscribe to the CLAW Newsletter, please email CLAW including your (1) name, (2) affiliation and (3) e-mail address.

7. Japanese Law News Monthly Bulletin: Monthly e-mail bulletin of important Japanese law related news in Japan's English-language newspapers. Back issues are listed below in PDF format. Please note that ANJeL is no longer compiling this bulletin.

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Last updated: 13 June 2009