COMPREHENSIVE JAPAN LAW LINKS

• Japanese Law and Regulation Information Guide - A site maintained at Stanford University, this guide contains information on Japanese law and links to many other sites.
• Japanese Law Links is a site prepared and maintained by Luke Nottage at the University of Kyushu. It contains a wide range of information not available elsewhere.
• Japanese Law and Other Useful WWW Servers in Japan. A page maintained at Tohoku University; it contains links to lots of great information on Japanese law.

ADDITIONAL LINKS

• Senrei presents summaries of important recent case law in Japan. Included are selected Supreme Court and lower court cases from 1995 to the present, with citations to the publications in which they are reported.
• Japan LawBase, is prepared by Roderick Seeman, an American lawyer. Most of the information is taken from his publications such as "The Japan Law Letter." This site also offers translated Japanese statutes and regulations.
• Japanlaw.co.jp is a site "organized" by Nakamura and Associates to introduce Japanese laws and practices. It contains information on starting a company, as well as a partial translation of Japan's revised Code of Civil Procedure.
• Lex Mundi:  A Lawyer's Guide to Japan contains practical information for "entry" into the Japanese market, prepared by the law firm Masuda & Ejiri.
• The American Citizen Services page of the US Embassy in Japan website contains useful information on various matters including day to day legal questions likely to arise for Americans living overseas; eg, nationality issues, questions of family law (marriage, divorce, adoption), and matters relating to transnational litigation.

(translation by Vicki L. Beyer)

Temple University Japan