The French comparative law academic journal “Droit public comparé – Comparative Public Law (DPC-CPL)” to which Professor Shunsuke KIMURA, Dean of the Graduate School of Global Governance, contributed an article was recently published. The theme of this issue is 'Médiation et justice administrative'. The topic by Kimura is 'The role of the Ombudsman within the Japanese Local Government System: The Example of Kawasaki City'. Accueil – Droit Public Comparé
The editor, Professor Rhita Bousta, comments in the introduction as follows: "Offering a unique and particularly thorough field study of the Kawasaki City Ombudsman, Shunsuke Kimura breaks down the boundaries – which are still sometimes rigid – between administrative science and administrative law. The data collected in the form of statistics and interview responses also provide substantial insights into mediation in Japanese positive law. The analysis of the cultural and legal reasons for the absence of a national ombudsman in Japan shows how interesting it would be to compare this system with another, even in the absence of “obvious equivalences”, in order to highlight the logical limitations of the approach of “only comparing what is [apparently...] comparable”.
