Some suggestions are made on how to advance theoretical analysis of social conflict and its management in reply to two reviews of the author's book, Law and Conflict published by Sansei-do, Tokyo, in 1980.
First, admitting the mentioning of Takao Tanase in his commentary on the book, the author urges specialists in law to examine how existing legal institutions of conflict management are operating along with sociological and anthropological achievements.
Then, rebutting as groundless the Takeyoshi Kawashima's suspicion of being misunderstood as expressed in an article, the author emphasizes mutual respect for others' different approaches as more important than insistence on one's own approach.