Law, culture, and conflict Dispute Resolution in postwar Japan

Law in Japan: A Turning Point

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 50-79

  Feldman, Eric A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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