I believe the pass rate for the National Bar Exam in 2000 was 2.75% from
36,203 hopefuls. The average has never topped 3.5%.
Lawyers are indeed rare and expensive beasts here.
Kyle
X-9 DESIGN LAB
http://www.X-9.com
-----Original Message-----
Japan has -
1. far fewer lawyers than the U.S. or Europe;
2. a legal code that I believe still uses a lot of
non-standard kanji;
3. a legal profession that staunchly resists
making it any easier to become a lawyer;
4. a population that largely despairs of really
getting anything done through the court system.
If you want to get a rough flavor of how backward
it is, here, check out the on-line patent systems.
-m
leap@gol.com
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Received on Fri Mar 16 09:31:18 2001