What
"Keimusho no Okite"
is to the prison system, "Saiban no Karakuri" is to the court system.
Two practicing attorneys join together to provide a look at the makeup of the
Japanese judiciary and of the Japanese legal profession in general. The authors
don't have many nice things to say about either the courts or the lawyers, surprise,
surprise. To the contrary, they rake both over the coals.The book is slightly marred by the authors' nihonjinron wishful thinking near the end of the book, and by a preoccupation with a belief that the US government secretly set former Prime Minister Tanaka up on the Lockheed bribery scandal in order to topple his government. Other than that, a great book, but not one recommended for the beginning or casual reader.