Japan
Nippon / Nihon-koku
Constitution | Executive | Judicial | Legislative | Legal Guides | General Sources
Constitution
- International Constitutional Law: Japan (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) offers English translation and Background Note
- Constitution Finder: Japan (University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law) in Japanese
Executive
Judicial
- 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 Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
Legal Guides
- Children's Rights: Japan (Law Library of Congress)
- Global Legal Information Catalog: Japan (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
- Global Legal Monitor: Japan (Law Library of Congress)
- Legal Research: Japan (Law Library of Congress
- Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
- AsianLII: Japan (Asian Legal Information Institute)
- FindLaw: Japan
- ForIntLaw: Japan (Washburn University Law Library)
- Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases: Japan (New York University Law Library)
- IFLA Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters Country Reports
- J Guide: Law and Regulation (Stanford Guide to Japan Information Resources)
- Japan Law Site (Roderick Seeman)
- Japan Law (Yoshida & Partners, Tokyo)
- UPDATE: Japanese Law via the Internet (Makoto Ibusuki)
- Japanese Legal Research (University of Washington School of Law, Gallagher Law Library)
- Judicial Assistance: Japan (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Web Guide to Free Legal and Compliance Resources on the Asia Pacific Region (Jane Macoustra via LLRX) includes Japan
- World Legal Information Institute: Japan (WorldLII)
- World Legal Materials from Asia: Japan (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
General Sources
- Asian Division Collections: Japanese (Library of Congress)
- Country Study: Japan (Library of Congress) January 1994
- Background Note: 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 Human Rights Practices: Japan (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Economic Briefing: Japan (The Economist)
- Embassy of Japan, Washington
- Human Rights in Japan (Amnesty International)
- International Religious Freedom Reports: Japan (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Japan Documentation Center Bibliographic Database (Library of Congress) - 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-VL Asian Studies: Japan (Stanford University)
- Yahoo: Japan
For more information on Japan see:
- Global Legal Monitor: Japan
- Children's Rights: Japan
- Legal Research: Japan
- Habeas Corpus Rights: Japan
- Article 9 of the Constitution: Japan
- WWII POW and Forced Labor Compensation Cases: Japan
Last Updated: 01/29/2012
