Authority without power : law and the Japanese paradox
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Bibliographic Information
Authority without power : law and the Japanese paradox
(Studies on law and social control)
Oxford University Press, 1991
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-249) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This interpretive study of the role of law in contemporary Japan argues that the weakness of legal controls throughout Japanese history has assured the development and strength of informal community controls based on custom and consensus to maintain order - an order characterized by remarkable stability with an equally significant degree of autonomy for individuals, communities and businesses. The author examines Japan's legal evolution, beginning with the influence of Chinese legal models through the development of feudal institutions and the introduction of 19th century Western law. He describes the potential threat that Western models of law enforcement posed to Japan's social order in the late 1920s and 1930s, their containment through the discovery and adaptation of "traditional" patterns of control, and the contribution of legal reforms under the Allied Occupation. The text concludes by showing how Japan's weak legal system has reinforced pre-existing patterns of extralegal social control, thus explaining many of the fundamental paradoxes of political and social life in contemporary Japan.
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