In sweeping legal reform, increasingly litigious Japan expecting flood of new lawyers... In past years, 25-year-old law school graduate Hiroyuki Ichikawa would have been facing an almost impossible task : a bar exam with a 97 percent failure rate. Now, his chances are closer to 50-50. In the most sweeping reform of Japan's legal system since World War II, the doors are opening wide for a flood of new lawyers, prosecutors and judges to handle criminal and civil cases in an increasingly litigious society. Experts say the reforms are long overdue and underscore a big shift in social attitudes that...
