ABSTRACT
This chapter sets out the dual aspects that are of most overt concern in encountering Japanese popular culture in a legal context: that Japanese popular culture is not empty of law, and that its international reception and influence is not insignificant in relation to these legal dimensions. It concerns possibilities of justice, considered in relation to questions of authority. The chapter examines the problem of the image. In Peters the waves of transnational movement of the icons of images of Batman from the US to Japan and back is seen as productive and instructive. The chapter focuses on law and justice in everyday Japan. While the contributions engaging with the power and problem of the image see cultural artefacts and practices in conflict with national law and law enforcement, the final contributions see closeness and a continuity of cultural artefacts and practices that manifest Japanese law and justice.
