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¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
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| Research Abstract |
1 An examination of the function of such loan certificates as shichiken and nagashijichi mongon shows that, In actual practice, pledges were not forfeited when the deadline passed and loan certificates themselves did Not demonstrate binding force like nagashibumi There was a local law dealing with pledge certificate, called as shichiken no ho and, as long as debtors had the intention to repray an obligation or make redemption, the creditor had the obligation to return the pledged item, hostage or pledge certificate. This law also applied to warrior law and became incorporated in the law of the imperial court that Obestate proprietors.
2 Uketorijo, or hensho, have been understood heretofore solely as documents that simply functioned much like present day receipts : and a more technical analysis of them has yet to be done. In this article, the author diacusses the function of these documents in medieval japan, in order to clarify the process of their formation and show that concepts of giving and receiving at the time were very much different from our ideas today. The author confirms that contrary to commonly-held views, medieval uketorijo functioned in the area of debt, much like documents of entrustment or loan certificates, due to aweak perception of private ownership, leading to the use of uketorijo in the receipt of goods,no matter who owned them.
3 Interest limitation laws in the Middle Ages did not limit the interest rate but functioned as laws that Limited the total amount of interest to the amount of the principal and,besides that 0.5x, laws in Agesen(cash loans) functioned to restrict the total amount of interest to one-half of the principal. 1 point Out, therefore,that there was diversity in loan practices including 1.5x repayment laws, 0.5x repayment laws and minimum repayment laws.
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