Sports Law in Japan Takuya Yamazaki

This book contains the elements of sports law explained in an organized, coherent manner. It simplifies the complex world of sports law and provides a road map to all of its intricacies from contracts, torts, antitrust, liabilities, constitutional implications, labor law, taxes. The Fifth edition continues to update the material with a focus on important recent legal developments, such as O’Bannon v. NCAA, the Northwestern University Football union petition, Jenkins v. NCAA, NFL concussion litigation, and the FIFA corruption case.

The Japanese government is becoming less involved in shaping industrial policy–but what does this imply for the openness of Japanese markets to foreign competition? In an extensive study of 'post-development' Japan, Ulrike Schaede argues that, contrary to what many have suggested, the reduced role of government regulation may not result in more open markets. Instead, as has happened throughout Japanese history, deregulation and the recession of the 1990s have once again led Japanese trade associations to assume important regulatory functions of their own.