TY - JOUR
AU - VANOVERBEKE, Dimitri
AB - Social Science Japan Journal Vol. 12, No. 1, pp 137–141 2009 doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyp004 Published online February 25, 2009 ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ Review Essays Dimitri VANOVERBEKE Osatake Takeki Kenkyu
 (Research on Osatake Takeki), by Meiji Daigaku Shiryo 
 Sent
a (Meiji University, Center for Historical Records). Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Hyo 
ronsha, 2007, 369 pp., U4,500 (hardcover ISBN 978-4-8188-1960-3) Nihon Kensei-shi (A History of Japanese Constitutional Politics), by Banno 
 Junji. Tokyo: Toky 
 o 
 Daigaku Shuppankai, 2008, 218 pp., U3,500 (hardcover ISBN 978-4-13-030147-3) Shiho e no Shimin Sanka no Kanosei: Nihon no Baishin-seido, Saiban’in-seido no Jisshoteki Kenkyu
 (Possibility for the Participation of Citizens in the Justice System: Empirical Research on Japan’s Jury System and on the Lay Assessor System), by Fujita Masahiro. Tokyo: Yuhikaku 
 , 2008, 302 pp., U6,400 (hardcover ISBN 978-4-641-12524-7) The three books under review are very different in purpose and disciplinary approach and are only interconnected by their common focus on Osatake Takeki. The book edited by Meiji University presents the first comprehensive research on Osatake as a person, as a judge and as a pioneering his- torian. Banno 
 Junji’s book builds further on one of Osatake’s main research interests, that is, the his- tory of parliamentarism or 
TI - The Timely Discourse of an Ambivalent Savant: Osatake Takeki
JF - Social Science Japan Journal
DO - 10.1093/ssjj/jyp004
DA - 2009-02-25
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-timely-discourse-of-an-ambivalent-savant-osatake-takeki-LyXKI0PEbi
SP - 137
EP - 141
VL - 12
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -