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18 APLPJ i (2016-2017)

handle is hein.journals/aplpj18 and id is 1 raw text is: Editors' Note The editors of the Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal (APLPJ) are proud to present our Fall 2016 issue (Volume 18, Issue 1). This issue features five distinct articles which examine an array of fascinating legal issues from across Japan, China, Malaysia, Thailand and Hawaii. We first present, Japan and the Liberal Global-Order Project: A Time to Stop and Stare by Dr. Luca Siliquini-Cinelli, senior lecturer at Deakin University Law School in Australia. In this article, the author analyzes the liberal global-order project in comparison to Japan's attitude towards toward globalized liberalism. In looking at the Westernization of Japans legal values, form of government, and legal doctrines, he demonstrates that Japan has never been a part of the liberal global-order project and continues to reject it. Next, Challenges for Enforcing Food Safety Law and Regulation in China: Case-Studies of Government Agencies in the Shanghai Region, provides an in-depth analysis of the food regulatory system in China. Through a series of interviews with several Shanghai law enforcement agencies concerned with food safety, authors Qijun Jiang and Ying Zhu, find that the reactive mentality of law enforcement agencies in rigidly following rules and routine inspection methods has failed to prevent continuous food crises that continue to influence consumer confidence in China. They instead propose that more holistic methods of implementation and enforcement of laws and regulations is necessary. Next, Daniel Pascoe of the University of Hong Kong elaborates on What Rejection of Anwar Ibrahim's Petition for Pardon Tells Us About Malaysia's Royal Pardons System. On 16 March 2015, Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's petition for pardon from what he claims was a politically-motivated conviction for sodomising his male aid was rejected by Malaysia's King, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong. In Malaysia's Federal jurisdiction, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong exercises the prerogative power to grant clemency or pardon on advice from a specially constituted Pardons Board, consisting of up to five members. Despite arguments in the Malaysian media being made in favour of the purported independence of the Pardons Board as a decision-making body and the pre-eminence of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong as the final decision maker on pardon, the article argues that through its composition and procedures, the Federal Pardons Board that disposed of Anwar's petition is open to the perception that it may be subject to significant political influence from the Barisan Nasional government in power in Malaysia.

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