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The Works of Takeyoshi Kawashima

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Yoshiyuki Matsumura
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Since the 1940s Takeyoshi Kawashima has been Japan's most distinguished legal sociologist. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that commenting on Kawashima's contributions to the sociology of law is almost equivalent to commenting on the sociology of law in Japan itself (1982–1986). International readers have not fully appreciated his work for two reasons. First, few of his writings are in English and those pieces that are translated do not encompass his major contributions. Second, there are relatively few works published in English on the sociology of law in Japan. Those studies that have appeared stress the uniqueness of Japanese legal culture. As a result, international readers have come to consider Kawashima's scholarship (while brilliant) irrelevant to theory building in the sociology of law.

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Research Article
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Law & Society Review , Volume 22 , Issue 5 , 1988 , pp. 1037 - 1041
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Copyright © 1988 The Law and Society Association.

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