Stephen Givens is a corporate lawyer and an adjunct professor at Keio University Law School in Tokyo.
Japan's law schools, launched with great fanfare two decades ago, have proved to be a deeply flawed project.
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A law school graduate studies for the bar exam in Tokyo in July 2006: His chances to pass Japan's bar exam were close to 50-50 at the time. © AP
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