Foreign Law by Jurisdiction: Japan

Full text Japanese Copyright law in English.

Contains machine-produced English translations of the legislation of Japan. Warning: Machine-based translations should not be relied upon in important documents and writings.

Cases in Japanese and English.

Links to laws in Japanese and English.

Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator, National Institute of Informatics. CiNii Articles searches the journals in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database, with some full text available. CiNii Books searches books and journals held by university libraries in Japan.

Useful for locating articles (as well as theses and dissertations) . The IRDB searches across the various institutional repositories of Japanese universities.

Indexes 14,000 periodicals published in Japan after World War II and 6000 volumes of collected works. This database is only accessible to current NYU students, staff and faculty.

Includes non-law materials. Under No registered user ID, click on Use only search function (Guest Login--no full-text). The Articles tab allows searching in the journals indexed by the Japanese Periodicals Index. Advanced Search searches various types of publications, including books, articles, journals, and newspapers.