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Civil Code of Japan is described in Acts 89 of 1896, I am not sure why there is dual reference, probably it was mended in 2017 under Act 44. I.e. the Civil Code of Japan, most part of which is description of contracts, and seller-buyer relations.

The question is, where is the scope of allowed state imposed penalties defined, for the party knowingly breaking the articles of the Code, and refusing to pay out the full compensation?

Such a wonderfully thick book should be worth the paper it is printed on; so where are the iron balls and sharp blades?

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The Japanese Civil Code generally spells out people's rights which can be enforced in the Courts.

The means of enforcing these legal rights, by obtaining judgments from courts, is normally found in Japan's separate Code of Civil Procedure.

Once a court judgment is obtained in a civil lawsuit in Japan, the way that this judgment is enforced is governed, in turn, by Japan's separate Civil Execution Act. I suspect that there may also be other ways that civil judgments can be enforced set forth in other acts, but do not know that this is the case.

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