Information Duties under Japanese General Contract Law and Japanese Law of Consumer Contracts

I. Introduction | II. Basic Structures of Japanese Contract Law | 1. The Japanese Civil Code (CC) | a) Basic principles and rules of contract law | b) Legal capacity, juristic acts, and declarations of intent | c) Performance of obligations and remedies for non-performance | d) Regulated types of contracts | e) Tort law | 2. Special Private Law and Public Law Regulation | III. Pre-contractual Information Duties | 1. Private Law Information Duties | a) The Civil Code | aa) The concept of fraudulent misrepresentation | bb) Surety contracts: written form requirement functioning as a positive information duty | cc) Full information about the contract as a prerequisite for a valid conclusion of the contract? | dd) Information duties and the inclusion of general terms and conditions | ee) Information duties based on good faith (bona fide) | b) Special private laws | aa) The Act on the Sale of Financial Products | bb) The Consumer Contract Act | cc) The Act on Specific Commercial Transactions (SCTA) and the Instalments Transaction Act | dd) Further pre-contractual information duties | 2. Public Law Information Duties | 3. Conclusion | IV. Contractual Information Duties | 1. Private Law Information Duties | a) The Civil Code | aa) Explicit statutory information duties | bb) Information duties based on good faith (bona fide) | b) Special private laws | 2. Public Law Information Duties | 3. Result | V. Post-contractual Information Duties | VI. Duties to Inform Customers about the Risk Involved in the Purchase of Financial Products | VII. Summary and Conclusion