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1 online resource (300 pages) |
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Americana Library (AL) ; v. No. 6 |
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Americana Library (AL)
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations and Legends; Introduction; Chapter 1. Relationships between Forms, Levels, and Types of Law (Kokuhō no keishiki); Case 1. Japan v. S. Matsumoto (1961). The Organization Control Ordinance Case. The Political Organization Control Ordinance enacted during the Occupation cannot apply because it was repealed after the act of the accused but before charges were lodged against him for failing to report to the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office during a criminal investigation |
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Case 2. T. Matsumoto v. Japan (1962). The Osaka Prostitution Ordinance Case. Penal provisions in an Osaka ordinance are held constitutional on grounds that penal provisions need not be in laws passed by the Diet in order to be valid. Chapter 2. The Diet, the Cabinet, and the Courts (Kokkainaikaku); Case 3. Shimizu v. Governor, Osaka Metropolis (1962). The Shimizu Police Law Case. A taxpayer's suit challenging the constitutionality of a police law is dismissed because the legislative process inside the Diet is not subject to judicial review in this case.; Chapter 3. Local Autonomy (Chihō jichi) |
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Case 4. Japan v. Kobayashi et al (1963). The Tokyo Ward Autonomy Case. A charge of election campaign bribery is sustained because of peculiarities in the administrative districting of Tokyo's wards (kū). Chapter 4. Taxation under the Constitution (Zaisei); Case 5. Takano v. Director, Osaka Office, National Tax Bureau (1961). The Joint Income Tax Case. The constitutionality of the Income Tax Law is upheld in the face of a challenge on grounds of discriminatory treatment of spouses.; Chapter 5. Equality of Rights under the Law (Hō no moto no byōdo) |
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Case 6. Koshiyama v. Chairman, Tokyo Metropolitan Election Supervision Commission (1964). The Koshiyama Malapportionment Case. The validity of a Diet election is unsuccessfully challenged on the basis of election district malapportionment. Chapter 6. The Economic Freedoms of Citizens (Keizaiteki jiyū); Case 7. Nakamura et al v. Japan (1962). The Nakamura Case. An application of the Customs Law is held unconstitutional for permitting confiscation of a third-party property related to a crime |
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Case 8. Japan v. Iida et al (1963). The Irrigation Reservoir Case. A limitation on property rights is upheld without compensation, for land at the bank of a reservoir. Case 9. Yoshida v. Japan (1965). The Bribery Compensation Case. An order to make payment in lieu of confiscation of bribe money is reversed as unconstitutional.; Case 10. Koizumi v. Japan (1963). The Gypsy Taxi Cab Case. A challenge to the constitutionality of the taxi licensing system as unreasonably restrictive of the freedom of occupation is dismissed |
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Case 11. Japan v. Ki et al (1970). The Ki Alien Reentry Case. The right of resident aliens to visit their ancestral home (North Korea) and reenter Japan |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Constitutional law -- Japan -- Cases
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Constitutional law
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Japan
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| Genre/Form |
Trials, litigation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Beer, Lawrence W
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| ISBN |
9780295803982 |
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0295803983 |
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