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Authority without Power: Law and the Japanese Paradox (Studies on Law and Social Control) (Reprint Edition) by John Owen Haley Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1994 ISBN-10: 0-19-509257-0 / 0195092570 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-509257-8 / 9780195092578 This book offers a comprehensive interpretive study of the role of law in contemporary Japan. Haley argues that the weakness of legal controls throughout Japanese history has assured the development and strength of informal community controls based on custom and consensus to maintain order--an order |