Citation

Tanase T. Law Soc. Rev. 1990; 24(3): 651-691.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Law and Society Association, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.2307/3053856

PMID

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Abstract

We often ask why the Japanese are nonlitigious and look into the unique culture that may explain it. It is more appropriate to ask why Japan has maintained a complex industrialized society without much reliance on law. For the nonlitigious society does not come about spontaneously. Instead, it was made possible only by careful management. I elaborate this process of management through the detailed analysis of automobile accident compensation disputes in Japan.