This paper challenges the classical view on the role of litigation in Japan by examining a particular type of litigation, namely private antitrust litigation. It shows that the widely held idea that antitrust litigation in Japan is rare only holds when compared to the US, not Europe. The...

Extraterritorial application of domestic competition law is an important feature of the current regulatory framework governing anticompetitive conduct. Japan was initially hesitant to apply its Anti-Monopoly Act in such a manner. However, the last two decades show a significant shift in its...

This is the Japanese version of Class Actions in Brazil - A Model for Civil Law Countries, 51 American Journal of Comparative Law 311 (2003). The translation was prepared by Professors Koichi Miki and Hiro Uranishi. Asserting that class actions are compatible with civil law systems, the author...

In 1890, when Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren wrote their seminal work on The Right to Privacy, Japan did not have a word for the concept. Scholars settled on puraibashii a transliteration as opposed to translation, of the word privacy. Today, privacy is closely guarded in Japan; the European...