In Japanese, the experiencer argument of a transitive nominal predicate (TNP) may be marked with genitive case or dative case. While the dative experiencer appears as a clausal argument, the genitive experiencer appears inside the TNP. In addition, the TNP construction allows copular inversion. This chapter argues that in the canonical variant of the TNP construction, the experiencer, if marked with dative case, is A-moved to Spec-TP in overt constituent structure, and that if the experiencer is marked with genitive case, it is A-moved to Spec-vP at LF. By virtue of these A-movement operations, the experiencer appearing in the canonical variant can bind the subject-oriented reflexive zibun ‘self’ contained in the theme nominal regardless of whether it is marked with dative or genitive case. In the inverted variant, the experiencer can be marked with genitive case, but not dative case, so that on the surface, it cannot appear in a clausal position from which it can bind the subject-oriented reflexive zibun. Nevertheless, the genitive experiencer is allowed to bind the reflexive in the same way as the dative/genitive experiencer of the non-inverted variant thanks to the LF construal derived via reconstruction of the TNP into CopP.