Zeitschrift fuer Japanisches Recht / Journal of Japanese Law

Since 2004, ANJeL collaborates with the German-Japanese Association of Jurists (DJJV) to promote their Journal of Japanese Law (Zeitschrift fuer Japanisches Recht). The journal is now co-published twice-yearly with the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Private and Private International Law, as the only regularly published journal in Western languages focusing on Japanese law.

A submissions guide is here and a citation guide is here.

Sample material in English:

Issue No 23 (2007):

• Table of Contents
• Editorial
• D. Hugh Whittaker/Masaru Hayakawa "Contesting “Corporate Value” Through Takeover Bids in Japan"
• Sanford M. Jacoby "Principles and Agents: CalPERS and Corporate Governance in Japan"
• Eiji Takahashi/Tatsuya Sakamoto "Practical Experiences with the New Japanese Company Code
  in 2005/2006"
• Christopher Heath/Mineko Môri "Ending is Better than Mending – Recent Japanese Case Law on Repair, Refill and Recycle"
• Emily Flahive "National Identity Crisis: The Politics of Constructing National Identity and Mandatory
  Detention of Asylum-Seekers in Australia and Japan" (Full article)
• Ronald Dore, Shareholder Capitalism Comes to Japan (Full text)
• Noboru Kashiwagi, Translation of Japanese Statutes into English (Full text)
• Anderson/Okuda, Translation of Japan's Private Intl Law (Introduction) (Full text)
• Colin Jones, Book review of Yagi/Kaji (Escaping your Debts in Japan). (Full text)
  

Issue No 22 (2006):

• Table of Contents
• Editorial
• Henrik Schmiegelow, :"Why Legal Transformation Assistance from Germany and Japan to Former East-Bloc Countries?"
• Robert B Leflar/Futoshi Iwata, "Medical Error as Reportable Event, as Tort, as Crime: A Transpacific Comparison" (Updated Version/full article)
• Kayoko Ishida, "Evidence Law in Japan and Australia: Principles, Practice and Reform"
• Luke Nottage, "Re-regulating Japan: Asbestos, Defectively Designed Buildings, and Secondhand Electrical Products"
• Yasuhiro Okuda, "The Legal Status of Foreign Companies in Japan’s New Company Law"
• Frank G. Bennett, Jr., "Secondhand Japan: Used Goods Regulation 1645 – Present (Part 2)" (full article)

Issue No 21 (September 2006):

• Table of Contents
• Editorial
• Souichirou Kozuka, "Recent Developments in Takeover Law:Changes in Business Practices Meet Decade-Old Rule"
• Moritz Bälz, "Liberalized Rules for the Restructuring of Japanese Companies: Mergers, Demergers, and Share Exchanges under the New Company Law"
• Frank G. Bennett, Jr, "Secondhand Japan: Used Goods Regulation 1645 – Present (Part 1)" (full article)
• Kent Anderson and Leah Ambler, "The Slow Birth of Japan’s Quasi-Jury System (Saiban-in Seido): Interim Report on the Road to Commencement" (full article)
• Stefan Wrbka, "The Research Commission on the Constitution and the Upper House Issue"
• Harald Baum, "Takeover Defenses in Japan: Corporate Value Reports and Guidelines"
• Curtis J. Milhaupt, "In the Shadow of Delaware? The Rise of Hostile Takeovers in Japan"
• Hiroshi Oda, "Comprehensive Overhaul of the Securities and Exchange Law: The Draft Law on the Trading of Financial Products of 2006"
• Eiji Takahashi and Tatsuya Sakamoto, "Japanese Corporate Law: Two Important Cases Concerning Takeovers in 2005"

Issue No 20 (February 2006):

• Table of Contents
• Editorial
• Stacey Steele, "Symposium Introduction - 'Build It and They Will Come': The First Anniversary of Law Schools in Japan"
• Masahiko Omura, Satoru Osanai and Malcolm Smith, "Japan’s New Legal Education System:
  Towards International Legal Education?"
• Kay-Wah Chan, "Foreign Law Firms: Implications for Professional Legal Education in Japan"
• Peter Lawley, "The Post-‘Law School’ Future of Japanese Undergraduate Legal Education
  A Personal Perspective Comparison with Australia" (full article)
• Mayumi Saegusa and Julian Dierkes, "Integrating Alternative Dispute Resolution into Japanese Legal Education"
• Kazuhiro Nishida, "Challenging New Law School Education at Okayama University Graduate Law School: We Will Survive"

Issue No 19 (September 2005):

• Table of Contents
• Editorial
• Kent Anderson and Yoshinobu Eizumi, "Cross-Border Legal Education : Results from a Pilot Japanese-Australian Video Negotiation Project at Australian National University and Aoyama Gakuin University"
• Daniel H. Foote, "Information Technology Meets International Contracting: Tales from a Transpacific Seminar"
• John O. Haley, "Heisei Renewal or Heisei Transformation: Are Legal Reforms Really Changing Japan?"
• Hiroshi Oda, "The Principle of Compatibility in Soliciting Stock Investment Judgment of the Supreme Court, 14 July 2005"
• Trevor Ryan, "Creating ‘Problem Kids’: Juvenile Crime in Japan and Revisions to the Juvenile Act" (full article)
• Malcolm Smith, "A Small Experiment in International Negotiations: Chuo Law School, Japan and Chulalongkorn Law Faculty, Thailand"
• Eiji Takahashi and Madoka Shimizu, "The Future of Japanese Corporate Governance: The 2005 Reform"

Issue No 18 (February 2005):

• Table of Contents
• Editorial
• Gerald McAlinn and Luke Nottage, "Changing the (JCAA) Rules: Improving International Commercial Arbitration in Japan"
• Hitoshi Nasu, "Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution: Revisited in the Light of International Law"
• Luke Nottage, "Civil Procedure Reforms in Japan: The Latest Round"
• Luke Nottage, "Community and State in the Japanese Farm Village: Farm Tenancy Conciliation (1924-1938) (Book Review)"
• Stacey Steele, "Comments on Okuda, Statelessness and the Nationality Act of Japan: Baby Andrew Becomes a Teenager and other Changes?"
• Yasuhiro Okuda, "The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and Japan's International Family Law including Nationality Law"

Issue No 17 (July 2004):

• Table of Contents
• Editorial
• Leon Wolff, "New Whistleblower Protection Laws for Japan"
• Harald Baum , "Product Safety and Liability Law in Japan (Book Review)"