Continuity with change: the historical foundations of governance and legal control in Japan: Emperors and edicts: the paradigm of the administrative state -- Castellans and contracts: the legacy of feudal law -- Magistrates and mura: the ambivalent tradition of Tokugawa Japan -- Constitutions and codes: the making of the contemporary legal order -- Cohesion withh conflict: the containment of legal controls: Lawsuits and lawyers: the making of a myth -- Policemen and prosecutors: crime without punishment -- Bureaucrats and business: administrative power constrained -- Hamlets and hoodlums: the social impact of law without sanctions

1. Law -- Japan -- History and criticism
2. Social control