Intellectual base for the statute legal system between Edo- and Meiji-Japan

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23730013
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Fundamental law
• Research Institution: Kobe Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: WANI Kaya 神戸学院大学, 法学部, 准教授 (90511808)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 法制史 / 日本史 / 琉球史 / 法継受 / 国学 / 国際情報交換 / ドイツ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The so-called "Legalization" and a "Reformation" a legal system in recent years attempted at Japan caused a constitutional transformation on our social basis founded on the Reception of western legal system in modern Japan(Meiji-era).
This research aims at more concrete and precise analysis of legal system before the Reception, especially considering continuity and discontinuity of statute and political or legal intellection. Comparing a penal law codification in early modern Okinawa and other Ritsu(ancient chinese)-style codes, re-analysing intellectual history between Edo- and Meiji-Era were the main works for the research, and as a result, it succsessfully shows several perspective for the consequence of such "Reformation" from historical view point.

Free Research Field

日本法制史