Dr Luke Nottage is a Senior Lecturer at Sydney University Law Faculty and founding Co-director of the Australian Network for Japanese Law. He has practised law in Japan, New Zealand and Australia.

'Nottage's book is certainly the product of diligent research - a much needed addition to scholarship on Japan, helpful to students of comparative law, the Japanese legal system, and Japanese society alike.' -Japanese Studies, Vol 23, No 3

• 1. 'Re-orienting' Japan and its law 2. The still-birth and re-birth of product liability in Japan 3. Comparing the PL Law with other 'strict liability' regimes in Europe, Australia and the US 4. The PL Law in action 5. The future of PL in Japan: reformulations, reform and re-regulation