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Authority without Power: Law and the Japanese Paradox (Studies on Law and Social Control)
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by John Owen Haley
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Cover Type: Paperback with 272 pages
Published by: Oxford University Press, USA December 1, 1994
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0195092570
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0195092578
Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 6 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 1 pounds
Product Review
"Haley, drawing on a range of secondary literature, offers a lengthy, historically rich examination of the development of Japanese law."--Comparative Politics
"Fascinating.Contain[s] many insights concerning law and social control in Japan."--The Law and Politics Book Review
"Authority Without Power is a major contribution to the field of Japanese law. The author not only establishes a bold and sweeping framework for a better understanding of Japanese law and legal history but also presents many stimulating, original interpretations. The extensive notes and bibliography are valuable for scholars. By analyzing law as an index to society, the author has succeeded in making the study of Japanese law in the United States, which has been the domain of a small circle of specialists, more appealing to a wider audience of both scholars and general readers."--The Journal of Asian Studies
"Haley excels at history. He carefully traces Japan's "selective adaptation" of Chinese thought, and insightfully reveals how the hamlet, or mura, was the "paradigm" of Tokugawa governance.Haley's explanation of the historical and continuing paradox of Japanese law is well balanced."--Far Eastern Economic Review
"Professor Haley has written one of the most provocative books on Japanese law and society. The book challenges other comparative legal scholars to test, refute, amend, and change the author's general paradigms in each substantive law field as well as to engage in overall studies of Japanese legal culture."--Michigan Law Review
"A very insightful and supremely well-documented bookuseful not only for the lawyer dealing with persons and things Japanese, but also as a textbook for those who want to know, for other reasons, how Japanese handle conflicts.This book is infuriating in places. It is also perceptive, iconoclastic, eye-opening, superbly well-written, and witty. It may become a classic."--Journal of Japanese Studies
"Haley's work is a sophisticated, clearly argued and important study of the nature of the state and the place and character of authority in Japan that should be of interest to readers in a wide range of social service disciplines."--Pacific Affairs
Product Description
This book offers a comprehensive interpretive study of the role of law in contemporary Japan. Haley argues that the weakness of legal controls throughout Japanese history has assured the development and strength of informal community controls based on custom and consensus to maintain order--an
order characterized by remarkable stability, with an equally significant degree of autonomy for individuals, communities, and businesses. Haley concludes by showing how Japan's weak legal system has reinforced preexisting patterns of extralegal social control, thus explaining many of the fundamental
paradoxes of political and social life in contemporary Japan.
Reader Reviews
It worth reading, I think, for social study. Legal view is general but essential to understand the roots of Japanese social model. It can be interesting for the politicians, not the lawyers.
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