Wolters Kluwer Labour Law in Japan

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this monograph on labour law in Japan not only describes and analyses the legal aspects of labour relations, but also examines labour relations practices and developing trends. It provides a survey of the subject that is both usefully brief and sufficiently detailed to answer most questions likely to arise in any pertinent legal setting. Both individual and collective labour relations are covered in ample detail, with attention to such underlying and pervasive factors as employment contracts, suspension of the contracts, dismissal laws and covenant of non-competition, as well as international private law. The author describes all important details of the law governing hours and wages, benefits, intellectual property implications, trade union activity, employers' associations, workers' participation, collective bargaining, industrial disputes, and much more. Building on a clear overview of labour law and labour relations, the book offers practical guidance on which sound preliminary decisions may be based. It will find a ready readership among lawyers representing parties with interests in Japan, and academics and researchers will appreciate its value in the study of comparative trends in laws affecting labour and labour relations. About the Author Prof. Dr Tadashi A. Hanami was born on 15 February 1930. He became a Bachelor of Law in 1953 and a Doctor of Law in 1962, at Tokyo University. From 1959 to 1962 he was Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Cologne in West Germany, and from 1964 to 1965 Fulbright Research Scholar at Cornell University in the USA. From 1953 to 1958 he was a Research Fellow at Tokyo University and from 1958 to 1983 a Research Officer in the Japan Institute of Labour (JIL). Since 1966 he has been Professor of Law, from 1979 to 1982 Dean of Law School at Sophia University in Tokyo and from 1968 to 1979 a Public Commissioner on the Tokyo Metropolitan Labour Relations Commission. He was a visiting professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium where he was awarded the Doctor honoris causa in 1985 and a visiting professor at the Harvard Law School in 1984-1985 and 1990. Since 1988 he has been Chairman of the Central Labour Standards Council in Tokyo. He has been a Public Commissioner since 1992 and Chairman of the Central Labour Relations Commission since 1998. He was served as President of the International Industrial Relations Association in 1998-2000 term. He was also appointed Research Director General in 1996 and President of the JIL in 2001. Since 1999 he has been Professor Emeritus of Sophia University. In 2004 he joined Matsuo & Kosugi and has been practising law as Of Counsel. In 2004 he was decorated with the Order of the Rising Sun Gold and Silver Star. Prof. Dr F. Komiya was born on 15 July 1948. He became a Bachelor of Law in 1972, a Master of Law in 1978 and a Doctor of Law in 1992, at Hokkaido University. He was also awarded a Masters Degree (LL.M.) from the University of California (Berkeley) in 1984 and a Ph.D. from the University of London (LSE) in 1997. He was Professor of Law at Hokkaigakuen University at Sapporo, Hokkaido from 1997 to 2011. Since 2011 he has been Professor of Law at Senshu University, Tokyo. He was a visiting scholar at the University of California (Berkeley) in 1984 and at the University of Michigan in 1987, a visiting professor at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium during 1995-1996, and an overseas fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge University in 2009. He was a commissioner of the Civil Service Commission, Hokkaido Prefectural Government between 1998 and 2008; the chairperson of the regional conciliation committee of the Central Labour Commission (chairperson 2006-2008). He is presently the chairperson of the Hokkaido Regional Labour Council, the Ministry of HealthWelfare as well as of the Hokkaido Local Government Labour Coun