[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had the pleasure of doing business with the Japanese once. They
have so few lawyers there!
And no building inspectors! That's why Mr. Aneha got away with
constructing 89 condominium apartments and hotels that will collapse
in an earthquake, because they have only 30% of the required steel
support beams. See:
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200512310226.html
They also have only a few hundred SEC or insurance inspectors in the
whole country, most of them incompetent. That is why stock and
insurance fraud are rampant, and thousands of old people are swindled
of their life savings every year.
Regarding those "few" lawyers they have, and even fewer judges . . .
There is a downside. Thousands of victims of war crimes in the 1940s,
pollution and asbestos in the 1960s, and stock fraud in the 1990s
have been trying to file suits against the government and
corporations for decades. Because the law is so delayed and lawsuits
take decades, most of the victims will die before the cases go to
trial. The cases will be moot, and they and their survivors will
never receive a single yen in compensation.
See: A. Kerr, "Dogs and Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Modern Japan."
- Jed
