This chapter analyzes how the methodological transition of the UN Security Council's sanctions regimes has necessitated, as well as justified, greater changes in domestic law. This chapter examines the cases of two East Asian countries, the People's of Republic of China (PRC) and Japan. The...

This chapter aims to provide an overview of Japanese approaches to economic sanctions by addressing both their legal and political backgrounds and their transitions. Until the beginning of the twenty-first century, the Japanese government approached economic sanctions from the perspective of...