Professor Rob Leflar spent most of the summer as a visiting research scholar at the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law, continuing work on his project comparing U.S. and Japanese approaches to the problem of medical error. His article "'Unnatural Deaths,' Criminal Sanctions, and Medical Quality Improvement in Japan" will appear in the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics. A second article, "The Regulation of Medical Malpractice in Japan," will appear in a medical journal, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research.