<div dir="ltr">Pip Nicholson and Teilee Kuong (2014). Japanese Legal Assistance: An East Asian Model of Legal Assistance and Rule of Law?. Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, 6, pp 141-177. doi:10.1017/S1876404514001079. <div><br></div><div>Abstract</div><div><span style="color:rgb(98,98,98);font-family:'Arial Unicode MS',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:21px;background-color:rgb(241,241,241)">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.</span><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><font color="#3d85c6"><br></font></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><font color="#3d85c6">Dr Bu V.E. Wilson<br>Principal Consultant</font><br style="color:rgb(51,51,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">Hau Meni & Associates</font></font><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">P.O. Box 3280</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Port Vila, Efate</font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Vanuatu</font><br><div><br style="color:rgb(51,51,255)"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#f6b26b">T: Vanuatu</font><font color="#cc0000"> </font></span><font color="#3366ff" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">+678 598 2646 (mobile); </font></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><font color="#3366ff" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">+678 22626 (landline)</font></font></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><font color="#f6b26b">T: Australia</font><font color="#ff6666"> </font><font color="#3366ff">+61 (0) 407 087 086</font></font></span><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><font color="#f6b26b">T: <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Timor-Leste </span></font><font color="#3366ff">+670 78472485</font><br style="color:rgb(51,51,255)"><font color="#f6b26b">E: <font color="#f6b26b"><a href="mailto:buvewilson@gmail.com" target="_blank">buvewilson@gmail.com</a></font></font></font><font color="#f6b26b"><span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,102,102)"></span></span><div style="display:inline"></div><div style="display:inline"></div></font></div></div></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><font color="#f6b26b">S: hau.meni</font></font></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><font color="#f6b26b"><img src="https://haumeni.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/sigimg0-1.jpeg" width="96" height="58"><br></font></font></div><div><br></div><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><font color="#f6b26b"><br></font></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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