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Legal Reform in Occupied Japan: A Participant Looks Back
By (Author) Alfred Christian Oppler
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Constitution
342.52
Hardback
368
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
680g
After a distinguished career as a jurist in Germany, Alfred Oppler came to the United States in 1939, and in 1946 was invited to Tokyo, where he was SCAP's authority on reform of the Japanese legal order to implement the principles of the new Constitution. Here is his account of the legal reforms and the methods used to achieve them. The author des