1st Edition
Japanese Contract and Anti-Trust Law A Sociological and Comparative Study
By Willem Visser t'Hooft
Copyright 2002
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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Little has been written on Japanese contract law and anti-trust law in Western languages. This book describes the role of this law in protecting the distributor against unilateral terminations of distribution agreements. There have been significant pressures both to lower prices and restructure distribution channels in Japan which have strained many distribution agreements. This volume, based... Read more
Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Japanese Contract Law and the Unilateral Termination of Distribution Agreements 3. Japanese Anti-Trust Law and the Unilateral Termination of Distribution Agreements 4. Termination Disputes Within the Japanese Distribution System For Luxury Cosmetics, A Case Study: Manufactures V. Discounters 5. Dutch Law and the Unilateral Termination of Distribution Agreements 6. A Discussion on Japanese Attitudes Toward Contracts Bibliography Appendix I. Case Law: Japan Appendix II. Case Law: The Netherlands Appendix III. Case Law: European Union
Biography
Willem Visser t'Hooft specializes in Japanese law, and has been affiliated with the University of Tokyo and the University of Leiden. Dr t'Hooft lectures widely on Japanese law throughout the Dutch academic community.
'Japanese Contract is a wonderful book. It is the first major study in English that integrates doctrinal and empirical analysis of contemporary contract law in Japan...It is well worth reading and stands as a commendable model for what students following William Visser'T Hooft should aim for - The Australian Journal of Asian Law
'Like all good theses on Japanese law, this goes above and beyond the pure representation and offers to the reader much more than could be deduced from comparable Japanese sources.' - Rabels Zeitchreift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht
