Chapter Thirteen: Bureaucracy and the Protection of National Interests in Japan: Exemplified for Intellectual Property and Competition Law

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Foreword vii
4. Table of Contents ix
5. List of Contributors xiii
6. List of Abbreviations xv
7. Introduction
8. Emulating Japan? 1
9. Part One: Lawyers, Mediators, and Legal Culture
10. Chapter One: The Role of Lawyers in Japan 27
11. Chapter Two: Judges and Mediators in Japan: The Administration as Motionless Mediator? 69
12. Chapter Three: Historical Trends of Civil Litigation in Japan, Arizona, Sweden, and Germany: Japanese Legal Culture in the Light of Judicial Statistics 89
13. Part Two: Law and Contract in Japanese Businesses
14. Chapter Four: Use and Non-Use of Contracts in Japanese Business Relations: A Comparative Analysis 145
15. Chapter Five Relational Contracting: Does Community Count? 167
16. Chapter Six: Law, Contract, and Society in Japan: A Personal View 185
17. Chapter Seven: Contract Law and Practice in Japan: An Antipodean Perspective 197
18. Part Three: Aspects of the Japanese Enterprise
19. Chapter Eight: Changes in the Japanese Enterprise Groups? 227
20. Chapter Nine: Shareholders in Japan: Attitudes, Conduct, Legal Rights, and their Enforcement 237
21. Chapter Ten: Law as an Agent of Change? Governmental Efforts to Reduce Working Hours in Japan 251
22. Part Four: The Bureaucracy in Japanese Economic and Legal Affairs
23. Chapter Eleven: Finance Bureaucracy and the Regulation of Financial Markets in Japan 305
24. Chapter Twelve: Virtual Reality In Japan’s Regulatory Agencies 321
25. Chapter Thirteen: Bureaucracy and the Protection of National Interests in Japan: Exemplified for Intellectual Property and Competition Law 331
26. Chapter Fourteen: The “Old Boy” Network and Government-Business Relationships in Japan 345
27. Part Five: Discussion and Concluding Remarks
28. Chapter Fifteen: Informality, Flexibility, and The Rule of Law: A Report of the Discussion 373
29. Concluding remarks 393
30. Index 397