Law in everyday Japan [[electronic resource] ] : sex, sumo, suicide, and statutes / / Mark D. West
(Visualizza in formato marc)
(Visualizza in BIBFRAME)
| Autore: |
West Mark D
|
| Titolo: |
Law in everyday Japan [[electronic resource] ] : sex, sumo, suicide, and statutes / / Mark D. West
|
| Pubblicazione: | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (295 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 349.52 |
| Soggetto topico: | Law - Japan |
| Law and economics | |
| Sociological jurisprudence | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | legal system, japan, law, asia, suicide, debt, honor, working hours, employment, labor, lost and found, construction, condominium, earthquake, natural disaster, insurance, love hotels, sumo wrestling, noise complaints, karaoke, social norms, history, culture, tradition, nonfiction, fieldwork, economics, jurisprudence, sociology |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction -- Lost and found -- Sumo -- Karaoke -- Earthquakes and condominiums -- Love hotels -- Working hours -- Debt-suicide -- Conclusions and implications. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Lawsuits are rare events in most people's lives. High-stakes cases are even less commonplace. Why is it, then, that scholarship about the Japanese legal system has focused almost exclusively on epic court battles, large-scale social issues, and corporate governance? Mark D. West's Law in Everyday Japan fills a void in our understanding of the relationship between law and social life in Japan by shifting the focus to cases more representative of everyday Japanese life. Compiling case studies based on seven fascinating themes-karaoke-based noise complaints, sumo wrestling, love hotels, post-Kobe earthquake condominium reconstruction, lost-and-found outcomes, working hours, and debt-induced suicide-Law in Everyday Japan offers a vibrant portrait of the way law intermingles with social norms, historically ingrained ideas, and cultural mores in Japan. Each example is informed by extensive fieldwork. West interviews all of the participants-from judges and lawyers to defendants, plaintiffs, and their families-to uncover an everyday Japan where law matters, albeit in very surprising ways. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Law in everyday Japan |
| ISBN: | 0-226-89409-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910791783803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |