The Protectionist Bar Against Foreign Lawyers in Japan , China , and Korea : Domestic Control in the Face of Internationalization

... With the advent of the new millennium and a rapidly changing international outlook, Japan, China, and Korea have been at the forefront of recent media attention, focused primarily on the rapidly gaining influence and power that these countries wield on a level no longer limited to Asia. ... Some argue that the vagueness inherent in China's description of the role of domestic lawyers or law firms has directly contributed to the protectionist legislation that China has now passed regarding foreign lawyers, for the best way to open up China's markets to foreign investment is to clearly delineate, as Japan is in the process of understanding, the separate, non-competitive spheres that foreign and domestic lawyers can co-occupy in China's legal market. ...