Law in Everyday Japan: Sex, Sumo, Suicide, and StatutesUniversity of Chicago Press, 15/08/2005 - 279 من الصفحات Lawsuits are rare events in most people's lives. High-stakes cases are even less commonplace. Why is it, then, that scholarship about the Japanese legal system has focused almost exclusively on epic court battles, large-scale social issues, and corporate governance? Mark D. West's Law in Everyday Japan fills a void in our understanding of the relationship between law and social life in Japan by shifting the focus to cases more representative of everyday Japanese life. Compiling case studies based on seven fascinating themes—karaoke-based noise complaints, sumo wrestling, love hotels, post-Kobe earthquake condominium reconstruction, lost-and-found outcomes, working hours, and debt-induced suicide—Law in Everyday Japan offers a vibrant portrait of the way law intermingles with social norms, historically ingrained ideas, and cultural mores in Japan. Each example is informed by extensive fieldwork. West interviews all of the participants-from judges and lawyers to defendants, plaintiffs, and their families-to uncover an everyday Japan where law matters, albeit in very surprising ways. |
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... Cash, 1973–2002 Lost and Found Items, 1973–2002 Found Cash and Items Returned to Owner, 1973–2002 Incidents of Embezzlement of Lost Property, 1989–2001 Prosecutorial Disposition of Lost-Property Cases, 1973–2002 Dispositions of Large ...
... Cash, 1973–2002 Lost and Found Items, 1973–2002 Found Cash and Items Returned to Owner, 1973–2002 Incidents of Embezzlement of Lost Property, 1989–2001 Prosecutorial Disposition of Lost-Property Cases, 1973–2002 Dispositions of Large ...
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... cash totaling $ million in voluntary finds from ordinary citizens. Find rates are highly correlated to loss rates, and more than percent of the yen and percent of noncash items are recovered by the original owner.2 For ...
... cash totaling $ million in voluntary finds from ordinary citizens. Find rates are highly correlated to loss rates, and more than percent of the yen and percent of noncash items are recovered by the original owner.2 For ...
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... Cash Total value of found cash #2,492,024,204 #239,804,427 ($25 m) ($2.39 m) Percent returned to owner 71.9% 70.56% Percent awarded to finder 18.4% 21.40% Sources: Köban data are from Sömucho Tökeikyoku, Shakai Seikatsu Tökei Shihyö ...
... Cash Total value of found cash #2,492,024,204 #239,804,427 ($25 m) ($2.39 m) Percent returned to owner 71.9% 70.56% Percent awarded to finder 18.4% 21.40% Sources: Köban data are from Sömucho Tökeikyoku, Shakai Seikatsu Tökei Shihyö ...
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... cash is nearly identical. In roughly threequarters of the cases of found cash, the owner turned up—and only a very small portion of the cash went to neither the finder nor the owner.7 To get a sense of whether Tokyo and Aomori data ...
... cash is nearly identical. In roughly threequarters of the cases of found cash, the owner turned up—and only a very small portion of the cash went to neither the finder nor the owner.7 To get a sense of whether Tokyo and Aomori data ...
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... cash -D- Lost cash. 12,000,000 10,000,000 8,000,000 .*.*.*...* 6,000,000 ..~~~~ P-D-E-F-G-B-E-G-B-E." 4,000,000 ..." 2,000,000 1973 1975 1977 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 -O-Found items -D-Lost items rates ...
... cash -D- Lost cash. 12,000,000 10,000,000 8,000,000 .*.*.*...* 6,000,000 ..~~~~ P-D-E-F-G-B-E-G-B-E." 4,000,000 ..." 2,000,000 1973 1975 1977 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 -O-Found items -D-Lost items rates ...
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الصفحة 92 - ... features of social organization, such as networks, norms, and trust, that facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit.
الصفحة 165 - Without precisely identifying every consideration that may underlie this type of constitutional protection, we have noted that certain kinds of personal bonds have played a critical role in the culture and traditions of the Nation by cultivating and transmitting shared ideals and beliefs; they thereby foster diversity and act as critical buffers between the individual and the power of the State.
الصفحة 116 - Non-Contractual Relations in Business: A Preliminary Study, 28 AM. Soc. REV. 55 (1963).
الصفحة 49 - Richard H. McAdams, The Origin, Development, and Regulation of Norms, 96 Mich.
الصفحة 54 - Because of the nature of community life in the Bronx — its anonymity, the frequency with which cars are abandoned and things are stolen or broken, the past experience of 'no one caring...
الصفحة 165 - ... an emphasis upon the depiction or description of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.
الصفحة 53 - Margaret M. Blair & Lynn A. Stout, Trust, Trustworthiness, and the Behavioral Foundations of Corporate Law, 149 U.
الصفحة 4 - In our view, scholarship on law in everyday life should abandon the law-first perspective and should proceed, paradoxically, with its eye not on law, but on events or practices that seem on the face of things, removed from law, or at least not dominated by law from the outset.
الصفحة 97 - Land Problems and Policies in Japan: Structural Aspects," in Land Issues in Japan: A Policy Failure, ed.
الصفحة 4 - James G. Carrier, Gifts and Commodities: Exchange and Western Capitalism since 1700 (New York: Routledge, 1995), p. 20. Bataille expands upon Mauss in his essay "The Notion of Expenditure...