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Japan’s International Investment, Evolving Treaty Practice and Arbitration Related to Corruption and Illegality

Nottage, Luke R.; Teramura, Nobumichi - 2023

alleges that the investment was tainted by corruption or other similar serious illegality. By way of background, Japan emerged … significant growth since the late 1990s. This is despite Japan having comparatively very little corruption, which is often … compensation for expropriation. Japan’s investment treaty practice on corruption and illegality is comparatively interesting for …

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The Plight of Women in Positions of Corporate Leadership in the United States, the European Union, and Japan : Differing Laws and Cultures, Similar Issues

Binder, Bettina; Dworkin, Terry Morehead; Nae, Niculina; … - 2019

Gender diversity in corporate governance is a highly debated issue worldwide. National campaigns such as “2020 Women on Boards” in the United States and “Women on the Board Pledge for Europe” are examples of just two initiatives aimed at increasing female representation in the corporate...

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Big Business and the Law in Japan – An Historical and Contemporary Conspectus

Angelo, Anthony H. - 2016

New Zealand lawyers are dealing increasingly with Japan, and with its big corporations. This article discusses points of interest which arise, e.g. Cross-cultural overview, the status of the merchant, the development and use of law, Japanese strength of tradition and how Japan and its business...

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Transplanting Foreign Norms : Human Rights and Other International Legal Norms in Japan

Alston, Philip - 2011

This essay examines the challenges posed by attempts to transplant foreign legal norms, in the form of human rights standards, into a context that seems far from conducive to them. It reviews a major study showing that the Japanese courts consistently reject international human rights-based...

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Japanese Civil Society as a Public Actor and International Human Rights Law

Sambuc Bloise, Joelle - 2010

This article explores how international human rights law has influenced relations between organized civil society and the State in Japan. More specifically, it analyzes whether global norms on human rights have had any broad influence on the role of civil society as a public actor, or on the...

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International Human Rights Law in Japan : The Cultural Factor Revisited

Sambuc Bloise, Joelle - 2010

The persistence of the debate opposing universality of human rights and cultural relativism explains that many problems met when implementing human rights in a non-Western country are given a "cultural" reason. Japan has been described for decades as being "unique" by sources both outside and...

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