Japanese Commercial Law." (Text in German.) §This first German publication analyses in detail all legal questions covering trading with Japan and investments made in that country. The contributions to the volume are made by well known Japanese economists and German participants with long-standing experience in Japan.This creates a picture of Japanese law doing justice to both scientific and practical demands. A comprehensive bibliography of the latest western literature on Japanese law enables further research. §02§Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and Private International Law, Hamburg