ExtractNobumichi Teramura The author is grateful to Mr Issei Sakano, Advisor of the Ministry of Justice of Kingdom of Cambodia, and other legal practitioners working in Phnom Penh for their insightful comments that helped completing the manuscript. Note that responsibility for any errors that remain is solely my own. The Kingdom of Cambodia (Cambodia) is a civil law country whose private law, including rules of direct jurisdiction, is under the strong influence of Japanese law. Since 1996, the Japanese Government has been helping the development of the Cambodian legal system through, for example, offering training opportunities for young lawyers to study law in Japan. Then, in 1999, the Cambodian and Japanese Governments reached an agreement on the provision of legal development aid supports to Cambodia within the scheme of ‘Japanese Cooperation to Support the Formulation of Key Government Policies’ that requested the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to work with...