Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Emulating Japan? -- Part One: Lawyers, Mediators, and Legal Culture -- Chapter One: The Role of Lawyers in Japan -- Chapter Two: Judges and Mediators in Japan: The Administration as Motionless Mediator? -- Chapter Three: Historical Trends of Civil Litigation in Japan, Arizona, Sweden, and Germany: Japanese Legal Culture in the Light of Judicial Statistics -- Part Two: Law and Contract in Japanese Businesses -- Chapter Four: Use and Non-Use of Contracts in Japanese Business Relations: A Comparative Analysis -- Chapter Five Relational Contracting: Does Community Count? -- Chapter Six: Law, Contract, and Society in Japan: A Personal View -- Chapter Seven: Contract Law and Practice in Japan: An Antipodean Perspective -- Part Three: Aspects of the Japanese Enterprise -- Chapter Eight: Changes in the Japanese Enterprise Groups? -- Chapter Nine: Shareholders in Japan: Attitudes, Conduct, Legal Rights, and their Enforcement -- Chapter Ten: Law as an Agent of Change? Governmental Efforts to Reduce Working Hours in Japan -- Part Four: The Bureaucracy in Japanese Economic and Legal Affairs -- Chapter Eleven: Finance Bureaucracy and the Regulation of Financial Markets in Japan -- Chapter Twelve: Virtual Reality In Japan’s Regulatory Agencies -- Chapter Thirteen: Bureaucracy and the Protection of National Interests in Japan: Exemplified for Intellectual Property and Competition Law -- Chapter Fourteen: The “Old Boy” Network and Government-Business Relationships in Japan -- Part Five: Discussion and Concluding Remarks -- Chapter Fifteen: Informality, Flexibility, and The Rule of Law: A Report of the Discussion -- Concluding remarks -- Index