Mark D. West is the Nippon Life Professor of Law, director of the Center for Japanese Studies, and director of the Center for International and Comparative Law at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Law in Everyday Japan: Sex, Sumo, Suicide, and Statutes, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
This contribution to the comparative study of law in everyday life is richly detailed, entertaining, and insightful. --Mark D. Jacobs American Journal of Sociology