Constitution Executive COURTS AND JUDICIARY Legislative Legal Guides General Sources (includes LC Portals: Japan)

CONSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES

• International Constitutional Law: Japan (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) offers English translation and background notes
• Constitution Finder: Japan (University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law) in Japanese

EXECUTIVE ARM

• Prime Minister

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• COURTS: Supreme Court of Japan - includes recent and intellectual property cases in Japanese

LEGISLATIVE

• PARLIAMENT: Shûgi-in [House of Representatives] and Sangi-in [House of Councillors]
• Consolidated Code Online (Japan Goverment) in Japanese
• NATLEX: Japan (International Labour Organisation) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
• E-Transaction Law Resources: Japan (Baker & McKenzie)

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LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law )
• Multinational Collections Database: Japan (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• FindLaw: Japan
• ForIntLaw: Japan (Washburn University Law Library)
• Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases: Japan (New York University Law Library)
• J Guide: Law and Regulation (Stanford Guide to Japan Information Resources)
• Japan Law Site (Roderick Seeman)
• Japan Law (Yoshida & Partners, Tokyo)
• Japanese Law Links (LKyushu University Law Faculty)
• Japanese Law via the Internet (Makoto Ibusuki, via GlobaLex) September 2005
• Japanese Legal Research (University of Washington School of Law, Gallagher Law Library)
• COURTS AND JUDICIARY Assistance: Japan: Service of Process (U.S. Dept. of State)
• JURIST: Japan (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
• Web Guide to Free Legal and Compliance Resources on the Asia Pacific Region (Jane Macoustra via LLRX) June 3, 2002; includes Japan
• World Law Index: Japan (Australasian Legal Information Institute)
• World Legal Materials from Asia: Japan (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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GENERAL SOURCES

• Asian Division Collections: Japanese ()
• Country Study: Japan () January 1994
• Portals of the World: Japan ()
• Background Notes: Japan (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Japan (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• Consular Information Sheet: Japan (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Information: Japan (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices, 1993-2001 (U.S. Dept. of State) see reporters listed under East Asia and the Pacific
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Japan (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Economic Briefing: Japan (The Economist)
• Embassy of Japan, Washington
• Governments on the WWW: Japan (Gunnar Anzinger)
• Human Rights in Japan (Amnesty International)
• International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Japan (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Japan Documentation Center Bibliographic Database (Legal Issues ) - no longer updated after March 2000; contains over 5,000 public policy references, from 1988 to 1999
• NATIONAL LIBRARY: National Diet Library
• NEWS: BBC World Asia-Pacific
• U.S. Embassy, Tokyo (U.S. Dept. of State)
• World Factbook: Japan (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Japan (Google); Japan (Yahoo); WWW-VL Asian Studies: Japan (Stanford University)