
National / Media | BIG IN JAPAN Jun 15, 2019
'Lawyerlessness' is a luxury Japan can no longer afford
by Michael Hoffman
In 1983, Time magazine looked at Japan and saw, to its astonishment, a "land without lawyers." "Most Japanese," said its report, "live — and die — without ever having seen a lawyer." Was this a country, or a mystic brotherhood? In the U.S. there ...