%0 Journal Article %T L¡¯assistance juridique japonaise aux pays dits ¨¦mergents d¡¯Asie Japanese Legal Technical Assistance to Emerging Countries in Asia. A Contribution to the Pluralistic Approach to the Circulation of Law %A Isabelle Giraudou %J Transcontinentales : Soci¨¦t¨¦s, Id¨¦ologies, Syst¨¨me Mondial %D 2011 %I Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme %X Fort d¡¯un syst¨¨me normatif ¨¤ la crois¨¦e de plusieurs traditions juridiques, le Japon entend participer plus r¨¦solument au d¨¦veloppement actuel des modes de circulation du droit via notamment sa poli-tique de coop¨¦ration internationale en mati¨¨re d¡¯assistance juridique et judiciaire aux pays ¨¦mergents d¡¯Asie. Cet article examine les particularit¨¦s de la politique japonaise d¡¯assistance en prenant appui sur des r¨¦flexions plus larges concernant les modalit¨¦s contemporaines d¡¯interaction des normes et le renouvellement des processus d¡¯¨¦laboration du droit. Cela permet de cerner les contradictions d¡¯une assistance juridique con ue ¨¤ la fois comme outil d¡¯uniformisation du droit et instrument de coordination normative, au service d¡¯une approche pluraliste de la circulation des normes. On the strength of a legal system stemming from various traditions of law, Japan is trying to participate more actively in the current development of the circulation of law, especially through its policy of international cooperation in the field of legal technical assistance and judicial assistance to emerging countries in Asia. This paper scrutinizes the specificities of the Japanese policy in the field drawing on broader analyses about contemporary means of interaction between norms and the reshaping of the processes by which law is elaborated. This may help shed some light on the contradictions of a form legal technical assistance that is conceived both as a tool for the standardization of law and a device that facilitates the coordination of laws at the service of an approach of legal pluralism. %K Japan %K legal technical assistance %K globalization of law %K legal pluralism %K legal transfert %K assistance juridique %K mondialisation du droit %K pluralisme juridique %K transfert de droit %K Japon %U http://transcontinentales.revues.org/360