Japanese Research Links

(many links are old – to be updated or retired summer 2016)

Legal Research – Japanese Only

• 官報 (internet edition)
• 憲法会議
• 国立国会図書館
• 裁判所の判例
• 日弁連
• 法庫
• 法令データ提供システム (e-gov)
• 法令索引
• 六法全書
• TKC Lex/DB (subscription)

Legal Research – English & Bilingual

• Financial Laws Translated (JFTI)
• National Diet Library – Birth of the Constitution (Materials)
• National Institute for Defence Studies
• Nichibenren (English and Japanese)
• Reischauer Institute – Constitution Project
• Supreme Court Judgments (English – select)
• Select Laws Translated (Mizuho Securities)
• Select Laws Translated (Mika’s Page)

Gov’t and Policy – English, Bilingual & Japanese

• 首相官邸 (PM’s office – bilingual)
• 自民党 (Japanese only)
• 国会会議検索 (Japanese only)
• 国会提出法案（MOJ – Japanese only)
• 参議院 (bilingual)
• 衆議院議案 (Japanese only)
• 防衛省 (bilingual)
• Gov’t Ministry and Agency Links Page

Academic/Institutional Sites

• Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies
• Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies
• Institute for International Policy Studies (Nakasone’s thinktank)
• Japan Echo
• Japan Focus
• Japanese Institute of Global Communications
• Japan Policy Research Institute
• ジュリスト
• 大阪大学大学院法学研究科
• Washington University Law Library – Japanese Legal Resources
• Library of Congress Japanese eDatabases

last updated: 22 March 2011

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