2012 Volume 2012 Issue 76 Pages 255-258
From general and broad point of view, Suzuka Yoshioka and Rikiya Kuboyama report on the competition and cooperation developed between attorneys and other legal professionals in terms of each professional duty and area of occupation. Yoshioka refers to cooperation as positive aspect, and Kuboyama approaches to the issue from the aspect of competition and conflict. The reports by Kousuke Yanohara and Hironobu Yamagami are based on their actual experiences as administrative scrivener and judicial scrivener. Each professional has to compete and struggle for survival inside one’s own area due to the increase of the population in each legal professional. In the meantime, the expansion of the gap between urban area, where legal professional is overpopulated, and unpopulated area of legal professional is another issue. Concerning these issues, it is obvious that attorneys tends to go into the area out of social conflict resolution, on the contrary, other legal professionals tends to find the market in the area of social conflict resolution. These conditions have caused hot competition and lack of cooperation among each professional area. In adjusting each occupational area, it is a must to take the point of view that which professional area satisfies the needs of the residents as our users.
