Few Japanese outside the legal community may be able to name even a single Supreme Court justice. Lower court judges are equally anonymous.
Despite the heavy responsibilities of those who sit on the bench, ordinary individuals know nothing about them.
In an effort to make them more visible, a book profiling judges and their rulings on major cases was put out in May by a Tokyo publishing house.
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