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¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Gender as reflected in the criminal law and court of early modern Japan
First, I analyzed a lot of murders and injuries inside the Japanese IE. If a daughter kills her father or mother, she is punished in the same way a son kills his father or mother. If a maidservant kills her landlord, she is punished in the same way a manservant kills his landlord. Inside the Japanese IE, men and women are punished based on the status of being an assailant and a victim. The punishment is not based on gender.
In special cases in which a woman and a man commit a murder, and the woman is considered to be witless, having a weak identity, and submissive to the man, she takes a lighter punishment as compared to the man. In short,outside the Japanese IE, women are judged equally regardless of their husband' s social position.
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