* Associate Professor of Law, Sojo University; LL.M., University of California, Los Angeles; J.D., University of Tokyo; B.A., Waseda University. This paper is based on my LL.M. thesis, and I thank Clyde S. Spillenger for his supervision and advice. Without him, this Article would not exist. I also would like to thank Daniel Rosen and Lieba Faier for their thoughtful comments, and I thank Kazuno...

... 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 ...

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