Japanese Adversary System in Context

MALCOLM M. FEELEY is Claire Sanders Clements Dean's Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author (with Edward Rubin) of Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State. - SETSUO MIYAZAWA is Professor of Law at Waseda University School of Law, Tokyo.

'...a cogent analysis of contexts, controversies, and comparisons in contemporary Japanese criminal justice.' - T.M. Vestal, Choice

• Notes on the Contributors Preface; M.M.Feeley & S.Miyazawa Introduction: An Unbalanced Adversary System-Issues, Policies, and Practices in Japan, in Context and in Comparative Perspective; S.Miyazawa Adversarial Legalism and American Criminal Justice; R.A.Kagan Reflections on Japan's Cooperative Adversary Process; D.Foote The Role of the Defence Lawyer in the Japanese Criminal Process; M.Murayama The Bench, the Bar and the State: Judicial Independence in the Japan and the United States; M.M.Feeley Effective Adversaries for the Poor; R.A.Hanson, B.J.Ostrom & A.M.Jones Adversarial Procedure Without a Jury: Is Japan's System Adversarial, Inquisitorial, or Something Else?; S.Shinomiya The Miranda Experience in Japan; T.Takano Plea Bargaining in Japan; D.Johnson Witness Immunity and Bargain Justice: A Look at the Japanese Concept of the Adversary System; M.Inouye Critical Issues in the Law-Making Policy of Japanese Criminal Procedure: The Wiretap Act and the Adversary System at the Pre-trial Stage; T.Murai Miranda , Confessions, and Justice: Lessons for Japan; R.A.Leo The Administration of Juvenile Justice in Japan: Focus on Adversarial Justice; N.Araki European Trends Toward Adversary Styles in Criminal Procedure and Evidence; G.V.Kessel Appendix Index