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Japan has a civil law system which is based on Germany’s legal system. Given that it is one of the world’s largest economies, Japan has a relatively small legal profession which in 2007 numbered 23,133 lawyers. Its legal market is centred in Tokyo, where all of the top Japanese law firms and Japan's highest court are located.

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Japan to help Africa with IP issues

Japan is setting up a fund to help African countries enhance protection of intellectual property rights, calling it key to boosting the continent's economic potential. Japan will put an initial 110 million yen (one million dollars) in the next fiscal year into the fund, which will be part of the World Intellectual Property Organisation, the trade ministry's patent office said.

Japan parliament passes anti-terror bill

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) used its two-thirds majority in the parliaments lower house to override the earlier rejection of the anti terror bill in the upper house lead by the democratic party of Japan (DJP)

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source:The Jurist

Results are in

The results of the new Japanese bar examination were announced recently. This is the first year that non law graduates were able to take the bar examination under the new system.