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19 APLPJ i (2017-2018)

handle is hein.journals/aplpj19 and id is 1 raw text is: Editor's Note The editors of the Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal (APLPJ), proudly present Volume 19, Issue 1. This issue features one translation and four articles focusing on the intersection between civil society, government, and law, in Japan, China, Korea, and Guam. We are especially excited to be publishing two articles written by our very own peers, and one article by one of our William S. Richardson School of Law professors. We first present a translation piece entitled Japan ' Hate Speech Laws: Translations of the Osaka City Ordinance and the National Act to Curb Hate Speech in Japan by Koji Higashikawa, Professor of Law at Kanazawa University, Japan. The Osaka City Ordinance for Dealing with Hate Speech has been Japan's first legislative response to a recent rise in hate speech, which subsequently led to the enactment of the National Act to Curb Hate Speech in Japan. After offering a look at the issue of hate speech in Japanese society, Higashikawa provides a translation of both laws and briefly discusses the most recent developments. The first article we present is Diversity, Dialogue, and Deliberation: An Empirical Investigation of Age, Gender, and Meaningful Decision-Making in Korean Juries by Jisuk Woo, Professor at the Graduate School of Public Administration at Seoul National University and Justin D. Levinson, Professor of Law at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa William S. Richardson School of Law. Noting that the field of empirical literature on jury diversity has been prominent in America but lacking in East Asia, Woo and Levinson conducted and analyzed the results of an empirical study of shadow jury deliberations in nineteen criminal cases in Korea. The Article examines how gender and age diversity in jury members and speech-related dynamics influence the quality of Korean jury deliberations. Their findings show that, in Korea, the speech dynamics of the deliberation processes play a more significant role on the quality of jury deliberations than age and gender diversity. The authors conclude by discussing the implications of their findings and proposing different avenues for future research. Our second article is Community Corrections Programs in China: New Forms of Informal Punishments?, by Xue Yang, PhD researcher for the Institution for International Research of Criminal Policy at Ghent University, Belgium. In her article, Yang first discusses the history of informal and formal criminal punishments in China. She then takes both a theoretical and empirical approach to examine the nature of community corrections programs in contemporary China. She concludes by stating that the community corrections programs deviate from their original