1999 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Integration of Asian -Pacific Region and Legal Culture
| Project/Area Number |
09620006
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Fundamental law
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
YASUDA Nobuyuki Nagoya University, Graduate School of International Development, Professor, 大学院・国際開発研究科, 教授 (00242884)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1997 – 1999
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| Keywords | Asian-Pacific / Anglo-America / ASEAN / SARRC / law reform / transparency and accountability / globalization / legal culture |
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| Research Abstract |
This year, the final year of three years' project, I made an effort to conclude the research agenda and to bridge it with future research. My original perspective of research was that two-contrasted legal cultures between the Pacific Ocean, communication Asian and individualistic Anglo-American, would converge in the early 21st century. However, the Asian Financial Crisis erupted in 1997 has shown another indication that Anglo-American legal culture overwhelmed Asian one and forced almost all Asian countries including Japan to reform their political and economic systems to the Anglo-American systems. It is undeniable that Anglo-American system is characterized by rationality in the economic sense as often expressed by the terms "transparency and accountability", while Asian systems is irrational in this sense as shown by the terms "cronyism and nepotism". However, a kind of feeling of identity or solidarity becomes more and more important in the social life, as we see in ethnic and racial conflicts all over the world. This feeling or value is a core of Asian legal culture although it has a serious weakness mentioned above in the economic and political field. Therefore, a convergence of two legal cultures, I believe, is still an effective paradigm in the long time-span.
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