The essays collected in this volume reflect the coming of age of American scholarship on Japanese Law. All were published between 1976 & 1986 by the American Branch of the Japanese American Society of Legal Studies in its English language periodical, Law in Japan: An Annual. Most were presented at a conference on Law & Society in Japan in August 1983 under the sponsorship of the Social Science Research Council. Distributed by William S. Hein & Co., Inc