Curriculum Vitae
Kichimoto Asaka
Born: January 30, 1960, Tokyo, Japan
Nationality: Japan
Education: LL.B., Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo, 1983; LL.M., Graduate
School, Division of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo, 1985; LL.M., Duke
University School of Law, 1987
Employment: 1985-1990 Research Associate, Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo;
1990-1992 Lecturer in Law, Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo; 1992-2004 Associate
Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo; 2004-present Professor
of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo
Academic and Professional Organizations: Representative Director, Japanese American
Society for Legal Studies; President, Japanese Society of Comparative Law; Member,
Japan Association of the Law of Civil Procedure; Associate, American Bar Association;
Member, Supreme Court Historical Society; Associate Member, International Academy
of Comparative Law
Teaching Subjects: Anglo-American Law, Introduction to Law, Comparative Law
Major Publications
Article (written in English):
Electoral Reform in Japan: A Comparative Constitutional Law Perspective, (1997)
27 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 25
Debates on Constitutional Amendments and the Possible Establishment of a "Constitutional
Court" in Japan, [2004] 10 New Zealand Association for Comparative Law
Yearbook 129 (2005)
Admired but Unwelcome American Lawyers, 23 Duke Law Magazine no.2 at 42 (2005)
Common Law Education in Japan: Past, Present, and Future, (2009) 39 Victoria
University of Wellington Law Review 747
Books (written in Japanese):
Federal and State Judicial Systems in the United States (University of Tokyo
Press 1999)
American Civil Procedure (Kobundo 2000, 2nd ed. 2008, 3rd ed. 2016)
Access Guide for Foreign Laws (co-authored, Ichiro Kitamura ed., University
of Tokyo Press 2004)
Selected Cases of American Law (co-edited, Norio Higuchi et al. eds., Yuhikaku
2012)
Articles (written in Japanese):
Multidistrict Litigation in the United States Courts; Transfer, and Coordination
or Consolidation, 103 Journal of the Jurisprudence Association no.4 at 155,
no.5 at 136 (1986)
The Reach of the Federal Courts in the United States: Federalism Limits on
Exercising the Jurisdiction, 109 Journal of the Jurisprudence Association no.2
at1, no.3 at 108, no.4 at 74, no.5 at 82 (1992)
Judicial System in America Prior to the Enactment of the Judiciary Act of
1789: The Evolution of Ideas on "Independent Judiciary" and "Appellate
Review" , 106 Journal of the Association of Political and Social Sciences
nos.3/4 at 125 (1993)
Access to Court and Abuse of Process: Debates on Amendments to Rule 11 of
the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Japanese Law in an International Context
155 (Shiro Ishii & Norio Higuchi eds, University of Tokyo Press 1995)
The Structure of the Common Law in the Nineteenth-Century America: Swift v.
Tyson Revisited, 112 Journal of the Jurisprudence Association no.12 at 1 (1995),
113 Journal of the Jurisprudence Association no.1 at 1 (1996)
The Abolition of Appeals to the Privy Council and the Establishment of the
Supreme Court in New Zealand: Weakened Unity of the Common Law?, 120 Journal
of the Association of Political and Social Sciences nos.5/6 at 72 (2007)
Strategy and Tactics of American Lawyers in Class Actions, 3 The University
of Tokyo Law Review 135 (2008)
The Initiative Process in California: How Can Citizens Make Law?, 71 Sociology
of Law 23 (2009)
Mutual Citations of Decisions Among Common Law Countries: England, Canada,
Australia and New Zealand, 74 Comparative Law Journal 19 (2012)
The Lost Substance of the Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution:
The Role of a General Provision for Unenumerated Rights, 2 On Modern Constitutionalism
177 (Yasuo Hasebe et al. eds., Yuhikaku 2013)
Law-making in the United States, 1 Dynamics of Contemporary Law: Formation
and Establishment of Law (Yasuo Hasebe ed., Iwanami 2014)
Constitutional Issues of Bankruptcy Law in the United States: On Bankruptcy
Clause, Contact Clause and Article III, Current Missions of Civil Proceedings
(Hiroshi Takahasi et al. eds., Yuhikaku 2015)