[snowsislander]

Could this be a good thing? Sure there are going to be sheisters, but they may be needed.

I would say "no", that Japan certainly doesn't need a flood of lawyers.

While I appreciate that there is a small shortage, and indeed some rules have been changed to allow judges to act also as lawyers to cover that shortage, these wholesale changes I think are unwarranted and will have the same dismal effect that such a large parasite class has had in the U.S.

[AmericanInTokyo]

More lawyers may not be bad for Japan. What WILL BE BAD is becoming over litigious, such as American society which is pathetically over litigious.

Nothing it seems can be worked out 'hanashiai' these days.

Just watch peoples' panicking defensiveness emerging from their car at even a slight fender bender (small scratch) that was their fault----or the nonsense rattled off for 1 minute in the middle of a cough syrup commercial.

You can get sued at the drop of a frikkin hat in the USA...it has a lot of people on pins and needles, especially employers (managers) and medical professionals.