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9780521563864 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1996, cover price $109.99
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9780521048255 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, February 29, 2008), cover price $49.99
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9780295987316 | 1 edition (Univ of Washington Pr, November 30, 2007), cover price $65.00
Product Description: Japan's modern written law is Western. However, this law operates in a society whose values are pre-Western. In order to understand the function of modern law one has to study older systems of law as well. The main phases of Japan's pre-modern legal development are first, the indigenous customary law of the Yamato state...read more
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9789004104532 | Brill Academic Pub, January 1, 1996, cover price $152.00 | About this edition: Japan's modern written law is Western.
This book offers a comprehensive interpretive study of the role of law in contemporary Japan. Haley 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. Haley concludes by showing how Japan's weak legal system has reinforced preexisting patterns of extralegal social control, thus explaining many of the fundamental paradoxes of political and social life in contemporary Japan.
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9780195055832 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 21, 1991, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This book offers a comprehensive interpretive study of the role of law in contemporary Japan.
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9780195092578 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 1, 1994), cover price $67.00
Product Description: Japan's modern written law is Western. However, this law operates in a society whose values are pre-Western. In order to understand the function of modern law one has to study older systems of law as well. The main phases of Japan's pre-modern legal development are first, the indigenous customary law of the Yamato state...read more
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9789004094055 | Brill Academic Pub, August 1, 1991, cover price $68.75 | About this edition: Japan's modern written law is Western.
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9780860084044 | Univ of Tokyo Pr, February 1, 1987, cover price $89.50 | About this edition: Book by
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9780860083962 | Univ of Tokyo Pr, July 1, 1986, cover price $89.50
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9780860083757 | Univ of Tokyo Pr, June 1, 1985, cover price $74.50
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9780860083313 | Univ of Tokyo Pr, August 1, 1983, cover price $49.00
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9780197136010 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1982, cover price $36.00 | About this edition: First Published in 2004.
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9780860082613 | Univ of Tokyo Pr, July 1, 1980, cover price $18.00
Product Description: Book by Noda, Professor Yosiyuki
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9780860081609 | Univ of Tokyo Pr, June 1, 1976, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Book by Noda, Professor Yosiyuki
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9780404035983 | Ams Pr Inc, June 1, 1931, cover price $19.50
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