| Japanese Legal Research at the University of Washington ワシントン大学の法律学校アジア法学部門での 日本の法律研究 |
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This news page provides information on recent developments with regard to Japanese legal resources. It includes updates on new websites, online resources, cd roms, dvd roms, and other resources. It also includes information on presentations on Japanese legal materials.
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| 6/11/2008 7:54 AM |
| Waseda University Announces New Japanese Law Electronic Newsletter in English |
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Waseda University announced today that they are launching a new Japanese law newsletter. Here's the full text of the announcement: Invitation to Japanese Law News Letter Waseda University Institute of Comparative Law will start, as one of our 50th anniversary projects, an electronic newsletter on Japanese law to dispatch Japanese law information in English. While we also renewed our English web site, the significant point of this newsletter project is to deliver latest Japanese law information directly to your e-mail account every month! We hope our project will help scholars, practitioners, and any other people who are interested in Japanese law and seeking such information in English. The following is the outline of our project. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Publication: monthly (the last day of every month) Contents: updated information of Japanese law in our web site including the following topics. - Japanese law topics (comments by a law professor on specific topic) - Latest legislation information - Feature articles (longer article or collection of articles on specific topic (biannual)) - Other updated information of our institute activities including new publication and lectures. -------------------------------------------// Our website is also renewed. You can download all publications from our Institute. http://www.waseda.jp/hiken/index.html To subscribe, please contact : Kyoko Ishida, Ph.D Research Associate Institute of Comparative Law Waseda University Tel: +81-3-5286-1298 Fax: +81-3-3208-8690 E-mail: kyo@aoni.waseda.jp ******************************** |
| 5/21/2008 8:20 AM |
| Standard bilingual dictionary (March 2008 Revised Edition) |
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March 2008: Japan's Cabinet Secretariat has issued a 2008 Revised Edition (平成２０年３月改訂版) of their Japanese-English legal dictionary, "法令用語日英標準対訳辞書 = Standard bilingual dictionary." This dictionary was originally created in March 2006, and revised by the Japanese government as part of its law translation policy. The PDF version of the dictionary may be found here (PDF). There is also a new CSV (Comma Separated Values Database) version, here. |
| 2/25/2008 11:14 AM |
| Monthly List of New Japanese Law Titles Cataloged: January 2008 |
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A monthly list of new Japanese law titles cataloged can be found on the Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library website: http://marian.law.washington.edu/search/ftlist.html. A reminder to view the list will appear as a new feed here. To view the new titles, click on the "Japanese New Titles for ..." link.
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| 11/16/2007 7:58 AM |
| Monthly List of New Japanese Law Titles Cataloged |
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A monthly list of new Japanese law titles cataloged can be found on the Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library website: http://marian.law.washington.edu/search/ftlist.html. A reminder to view the list will appear as a new feed here. To view the new titles, click on the "Japanese New Titles for ..." link.
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| 11/15/2007 11:12 AM |
| Transparency of Japanese Law Project |
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This Kyushu University-based project provides English translations for many Japanese laws and court decisions in the fields of Corporate Law, Goods and Services Transaction Law, Financing Law, Intellectual Property Law, Insolvency law, Arbitration law, Civil litigation law, and Public International law. According to the website's home page, "The Transparency of Japanese Law Project aims to provide legal information on international transactions in Japan to the overseas community by organizing and translating into English, information which includes: overviews of Japanese law, specific Japanese legislation, doctrines, and case law."
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| 11/12/2007 10:00 AM |
| Presentations on Japanese Legal Materials |
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The Gallagher Law Library East Asian Law Department now provides a page with links to presentations by staff on Chinese, Japanese and Korean legal materials.
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| 10/24/2007 10:00 AM |
| Online Judgments of the Supreme Court in English New Interface (October 2007)! |
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The Japanese government has added a new search interface for its translations into English of selected Japanese Supreme Court decisions, and summaries of selected other Supreme Court decisions.
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| 4/10/2007 10:00 AM |
| Japanese Legal Articles Available for Free |
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Over 60 Japanese legal periodicals are now available in full-text online for free. The University of Washington Gallagher Law Library has provided a convenient list of these titles, with links that go directly to the Journal's homepage.
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| 2/15/2007 10:00 AM |
| Download Cases on the Web (判例提供システム) |
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This new service of the Japanese government provides a search interface for finding the full text of Japanese court decisions (in Japanese). Decisions are provided in PDF format.
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| 6/14/2006 2:06 PM |
| Japanese-English Legal Dictionary (PDF File) |
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This dictionary was created by the Japanese government as part of the Standardized Law Translation service, to regularize translations of Japanese legal terms into English. It is available here: http://www.cas.go.jp/jp/seisaku/hourei/dictionary.pdf (PDF file).
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| 6/15/2006 10:00 AM |
| Standardized Law Translation Service |
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In April 2006, the Japanese government started a project to systematically translate Japanese laws into English.
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