Affiliation: | University of East Anglia, Norwich.This paper was written during the tenure of a Japanese Government MONBUSHO Scholarship held at Rikkyo<@175> (St Paul<@146>s) University, Tokyo, and the assistance of the Japanese Ministry of Education in making this award is gratefully acknowledged. I should also like to thank Dr Nobuyoshi Araki, Lecturer in Law, Rikkyo<@175> University, for his advice and careful supervision. I am particularly grateful to Mr Yasuharu Sekiguchi of the Department of Law, Rikkyo<@175> University, and Miss Mitsuko Watanabe, formerly of the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, for their assistance in the reading of Japanese texts. |