Retail Operations, Inc., a U.S. firm, obtains a judgment in a U.S. court against Shinobu, Ltd., a Japanese business. Whether the court's judgment will be enforced by a court in Japan depends on the Japanese court's application of

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The principle of comity is the legal concept that a country will give consideration and respect to the laws and judicial decisions of another country. Therefore, it is the principle of comity that will determine whether the judgment of the U.S. court will be recognized and enforced by a court in Japan. The act of state doctrine and the doctrine of sovereign immunity are related to the immunity from foreign court jurisdiction of state and government officials, and the World Trade Organization is an international organization dealing with trade agreements and policies that is not directly related to the enforcement of court judgments.