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19 APLPJ i (2017-2018)

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Editor's  Note


       The editors of the Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal (APLPJ),
proudly present Volume 19, Issue 1. This issue features one translation and
four  articles focusing  on  the  intersection between  civil society,
government,  and  law, in  Japan, China,  Korea, and  Guam.   We  are
especially excited to be publishing two articles written by our very own
peers, and one article by one of our William S. Richardson School of Law
professors.

       We  first present a translation piece entitled Japan ' Hate Speech
Laws:  Translations of the Osaka City Ordinance and the National Act to
Curb  Hate Speech  in Japan by Koji Higashikawa,  Professor of Law at
Kanazawa  University, Japan. The Osaka City Ordinance for Dealing with
Hate Speech  has been Japan's first legislative response to a recent rise in
hate speech, which subsequently led to the enactment of the National Act
to Curb Hate  Speech in Japan. After offering a look at the issue of hate
speech in Japanese society, Higashikawa provides a translation of both
laws and briefly discusses the most recent developments.

       The   first article we  present  is Diversity, Dialogue,   and
Deliberation: An Empirical Investigation of Age, Gender, and Meaningful
Decision-Making   in Korean  Juries by  Jisuk Woo,   Professor at the
Graduate  School of Public Administration at Seoul National University
and Justin D. Levinson, Professor of Law at the University of Hawai'i at
Manoa  William  S. Richardson  School of Law. Noting  that the field of
empirical literature on jury diversity has been prominent in America but
lacking in East Asia, Woo   and Levinson  conducted and  analyzed the
results of an empirical study of shadow jury deliberations in nineteen
criminal cases in Korea.  The  Article examines how   gender and  age
diversity in jury members  and  speech-related dynamics influence the
quality of Korean jury deliberations. Their findings show that, in Korea,
the speech dynamics of the deliberation processes play a more significant
role on the quality of jury deliberations than age and gender diversity. The
authors conclude  by discussing the implications of their findings and
proposing different avenues for future research.

       Our second  article is Community Corrections Programs in China:
New  Forms  of Informal Punishments?, by Xue Yang, PhD  researcher for
the Institution for International Research of Criminal Policy at Ghent
University, Belgium. In her article, Yang first discusses the history of
informal and formal criminal punishments in China. She then takes both a
theoretical and empirical approach to examine the nature of community
corrections programs in contemporary  China. She concludes  by stating
that the community   corrections programs  deviate from their original

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