Japan – Learning from Japanese legal tradition

Letter from Japan by Professor Yutaka Tajima (University of Tsukuba, Japan) explaining how Japanese law is an amalgam of a number of different traditions and is an interesting source of study for Europeans at a time when the traditional concept of the nation state is breaking down. Published in the Letter from … section of Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.