Climate Change Litigation in Japan : Cases, Challenges, and Opportunities for Environmental Law /

Climate Change Litigation in Japan : Cases, Challenges, and Opportunities for Environmental Law /

This book provides the details of Japanese climate litigation, positioning them both within the global trends of climate litigation and on the trajectory of Japanese past pollution lawsuits. It identifies the barriers that hinders the number of climate cases in Japan, a country known with a signific...

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Main Author: Ichihara, Masako (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Series: Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
NIHU Studies in the Humanities ; 1.

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Asian Studies.
Environmental History.
History.
Social Sciences.

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Call Number: N7301 .S484

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Research Background and Existing Scholarship
  • 1.1 Research Background
  • 1.2 Literature Review
  • 1.3 Research Objectives and Methods
  • 2 Overview of the Japanese Legal System Relevant to Climate Change Litigation
  • 2.1 Overview
  • 2.2 Japanese Judiciary
  • 2.3 Public Access to Justice in Environmental Litigation
  • 2.4 Laws Mobilized in Japanese CCL
  • 2.5 Summary: Key Legal Constraints to CCL in Japan
  • 3 From Environmental to Climate Change Litigation
  • 3.1 Overview
  • 3.2 Historical Background
  • 3.3 Structural Causes of Japanese Environmental Damage
  • 3.4 CCL as an Extension of Environmental Litigation
  • 3.5 Summary
  • 4 Five Climate Change Cases in Japan
  • 4.1 Overview
  • 4.2 Details of the Cases
  • 4.3 Comparison of the Cases
  • 4.4 Comparison of CCL and Earlier Antipollution/ Environmental Cases
  • 4.5 Uniqueness of CCL in Japan
  • 4.6 Summary
  • 5 Institutional Obstacles
  • 5.1 Overview
  • 5.2 Access to the Courts
  • 5.3 Existing Law
  • 5.4 Judicial Receptiveness
  • 5.5 Discussion
  • 5.6 Summary
  • 6 Cognitive Obstacles
  • 6.1 Overview
  • 6.2 Previous Studies
  • 6.3 Methodology
  • 6.4 First-Stage Surveys and Interviews
  • 6.5 Second-Stage Questionnaire Survey
  • 6.6 Discussion
  • 6.7 Summary
  • 7 Countermeasures: Possible Improvements and Future Prospects
  • 7.1 Overview
  • 7.2 Obstacles to Climate Litigation
  • 7.3 Prospects for the Future: through Comparison with US Tobacco Litigation
  • 7.4 Summary
  • Conclusion
  • 1 Findings and Implications
  • 2 Contributions
  • 3 Limitations and Future Research
  • Glossary
  • Appendix 1: First-Stage Survey Questionnaire
  • Appendix 2: Second-Stage Survey Questions
  • Bibliography
  • Index.