The Japanese Adversary System in Context

The Japanese legal system is at a crossroads. The contributors to this book explore the most important features of the adversary process as it works in the Japanese criminal justice system. Topics include the right to remain silent, wire tapping, the role of defence counsel, plea bargaining, the power of prosecutors, juvenile justice and judicial independence. Many of the essays seek comparison with practices in Anglo-American countries.

• criminal justice
• Defence
• Europe
• Policy
• state

'...a cogent analysis of contexts, controversies, and comparisons in contemporary Japanese criminal justice.' - T.M. Vestal, Choice

NOBUYOSHI ARAKI Professor of Law, Rikkyo University, Tokyo DANIEL FOOTE Professor, Sociology of Law, University of Tokyo ROGER HANSON Consultant MASAHITO INOUYE Professor of Law, University of Tokyo DAVID JOHNSON Post Doctoral Fellowship, Harvard University ANN M. JONES Senior Research Associate, National Centre for State Courts, Denver ROBERT KAGAN Professor of Political Science and Law, University of California, Berkeley and Director of the Centre for the Study of Law and Society RICHARD LEO Lecturer TOSHIKUNI MURAI Professor of Law, Ryukoku University, Kyoto and President, Japanese Association for Criminal Law MASAYUKI MURAYAMA Professor of Law, Chiba University BRIAN J. OSTROM Principal Research Consultant, National Centre for State Courts, Williamsburg, VIrginia SATORU SHINOMIYA Lawyer TAKSHI TAKANO Member, Saitama Bar Association and Miranda Society in Japan GORDON VAN KESSEL Professor of Law, Hastings School of Law

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