Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south.

A PhD in Law program provides students with foundational knowledge of the field of law and how to expand upon it as a topic of research and academic study. Rather than focusing on the application of law to other fields, this type of program focuses on the study of legal systems and educating future scholars.