"The aim of this article is to explore aspects of Japanese law on unfair labor practices, with reference to the distinctive features of the Labour Relations Commission (LRC) system.Modeled on the National Labor Relations Act in the United States, the Labor Union Act of Japan provides for a system of prohibiting and redressing unfair labor practices. Also, like the National Labor Relations Board in the United States, the Labor Union Act established a system of LRCs as independent administrative agencies in charge of unfair labor practice procedures.These LRCs have some distinctive features, in that the law applied by LRCs as administrative agencies has the nature of administrative law, and that they tend to play the role of adjusting the relationship between labor and management, based on their function of dispute adjustment and their tripartite composition. These features of LRCs appear to have influenced Japan's unfair labor practice law. In this sense, Japanese unfair labor practice law can be said to be “the law of the LRC.” "

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