The Authority of Law in the US and Japan (1986)

The United States is unique in the world as a society organized around its legal system.  Japan is equally unique as a large industrial society in which law plays a peripheral role.  This essay will set out some of the general causes for this fundamental difference between Japan and the United States.

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The Authority of Law in the US and Japan