Editing Judiciary (section)

=== Japan ===

{{main|Judicial system of Japan}} 
[[Japan]]'s process for selecting judges is longer and more stringent than in various countries, like the [[United States]] and in [[Mexico]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Grider|first1=Alisa|title=How the Judicial System Works Around The World|url=https://chicagoinjurycenter.com/cook-county-court-system/|access-date=23 May 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019070548/http://chicagoinjurycenter.com/cook-county-court-system/|archive-date=19 October 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> Assistant judges are appointed from those who have completed their training at the Legal Training and Research Institute located in [[Wako, Saitama|Wako]]. Once appointed, assistant judges still may not qualify to sit alone until they have served for five years, and have been appointed by the [[Supreme Court of Japan]]. Judges require ten years of experience in practical affairs, as a public prosecutor or practicing attorney. In the [[Judicial system of Japan|Japanese judicial branch]] there is the Supreme Court, eight high courts, fifty district courts, fifty family courts, and 438 summary courts.<ref>{{cite web|last=Mosleh|first=Peter|title=Japan's Judiciary|url=http://smu.edu/ecenter/discourse/Mosleh.htm|publisher=Southern Methodist University|access-date=20 April 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130526105546/http://smu.edu/ecenter/discourse/Mosleh.htm|archive-date=26 May 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Japanese Judicial System|url=http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/judiciary/0620system.html|access-date=20 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116032711/http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/judiciary/0620system.html|archive-date=16 January 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>