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Japanese Legal Assistance: An East Asian Model of Legal Assistance and Rule of Law?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2014

Pip Nicholson  and
Teilee Kuong
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Abstract

Japan offers its aid recipients an approach to legal reform that in some ways mirrors, and in others diverges, from the Western approaches to rule of law aid. As a consequence, Japan challenges Western legal assistance generally, and rule of law aid in particular. More particularly, after close scrutiny of the history of Japanese ODA and its mode of legal sector support developed over the last twenty years, we argue that Japanese legal assistance exhibits a range of traits including: incrementalism; comparativism; different aid personnel; focus on self-help; budget restraint; and humility. This approach has attracted robust critics. Nevertheless, this paper asks the question whether the East Asian model of rule of law assistance challenges the West's apparent addiction to rule of law aid.

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rule of lawcomparative rule of lawJapanese foreign aidJapanese legal assistanceEast Asian Development Model
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Hague Journal on the Rule of Law , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , September 2014 , pp. 141 - 177
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Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Press and the Authors 2014 

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