CISG-online adds first Japanese court decisions applying the CISG

After the 1980 Sales Convention had entered into force for Japan on 1 August 2009, no Japanese court decisions applying the CISG were reported for some years, at least not internationally. We are therefore very thankful to Dr Tomofumi Kitamura, associate professor of international law at the University of Tokyo, whose helpful assistance has now allowed us to add a number of Japanese court decisions applying the CISG (or at least referring to the CISG in interpreting provisions of Japanese domestic law) to our database.

The newly reported court decisions arose from CISG contracts between Japanese parties and counter-parties from China, South Korea, Spain or Switzerland.

The decisions can be accessed below:

By contrast, one further Japanese court decision did not apply the CISG to an actual international sales contract, but made reference to a CISG provision in interpreting provisions of Japanese domestic law: