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The Management of Disputes: Automobile Accident Compensation in Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Takao Tanase
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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.

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Law & Society Review , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , 1990 , pp. 651 - 691
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Copyright © 1990 The Law and Society Association.

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Footnotes

I am grateful for the thoughtful comments by Robert Kidder, James Finerman, Whitmore Grey, David Wilkins and Editor Shari Diamond, all of which led to substantial revisions of this article.

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