Japanese Thought and Western Law: A Tangential View of Japanese Bengoshi and the Japanese American Attorney

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The Japan islands are basically the summits of mountain ridges that were uplifted near the outer edge of the Asian continental shelf.Consequently, the country is extremely mountainous, and the plain and intermontane basins scattered throughout the country make up only about 25% of the national land area."5. E. REISCHAUER, supra note 4, at 60. Reischauer notes that in 1800, Japan had 30 million inhabitants-the equivalent of three times as many people that inhabited England and Wales at that time.In 1981, the density for the country as a whole was greater than 300 persons per square kilometer.The population per square kilometer of arable land in 1980 was 2,256 persons compared to 103 in the United States.

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