Part 2

Modernization Process in Japan

[1] Overview

• Establishing a "Nation State"

[2] Democracy Movement and Constitution of 1889

1. Introduction of Land Title and Taxation Reform
2. Burden of the Modernization
3. Conflict inside of the Meiji government
4. Constitution of the Kingdom of Prussia (1850)
5. Constitution of the German Empire (1871)
6. Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures

[3] Codification Process of the Civil Code

• Three Stages of the Codification Process
• Three Stages of the Codification Process (with Pictures)
• Napoleonic Code (1804)

• Reference: Corpus Iuris Civilis

1. Original Text in Latin: https://droitromain.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/corpjurciv.htm
2. "Institutiones" in English: http://amesfoundation.law.harvard.edu/digital/CJCiv/JInst.pdf
3. "Institutiones" in English: Translated by Samuel P. Scott
4. "Digest" in English: Translated by Samuel P. Scott
5. Codification Dispute in Germany:
   Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Friedrich_Justus_Thibaut
   Friedrich Carl von Savigny: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Carl_von_Savigny
   Historical School of Law in Germany: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Historical_School

• Napoleonic Code (French Civil Code of 1804)

[4] Boissonade's Heritage

• Summary of the Presentation for the symposium on Thai law arranged by the “Japanese Association of Asian Law”
• Boissonade's Heritage in the Civil and Commercial Code of Thailand, Book I & II (1925)

[5] Law on Real Rights

[6] Law on Obligations : "Non-Performance"

1. Art. 415
2. Art. 416
3. About the Hardley vs. Baxendale Case (1854) ; webpage 1, webpage 2

• Reference: Remedies for Non-performance

1. French Civil Code (1804)
2. German Civil Code (1900)
3. Common law; webpage 1, webpage 2 ...
4. Old Civil Code of Japan (1890)
5. Revised Civil Code of Japan (1896)
6. Reformed Law on Obligations in Germany (2002)
7. Reformed Law on Obligations in France (2016)
8. Draft Amendment to Revised Civil Code of Japan (2015)
9. Reformed Law on Obligatioins in Japan (2017)

• Reference: Comparison German, Thai, and Japanese law on "Remedies for Non-performance:"

1. At the time of 1925 (Enactment of the current Civil and Commercial Code of Thailand)
2. How Phraya-Man arranged the articles (Reconstruction)
3. Related Articles from "Civil and Commercial Code of Thailand, 1923)
4. Boissonade's Heritage in the Thai Civil and Commercial Code, Book I and II
5. After the Reform of Law on Obligations in Germany (2002 - )

[7] Family in Pre-war Period

• Type of Cohabitation and the judge-made law for the protection of wemen in de-facto marriage

The Road to the Agrarian Reform after the WW II through the War

• Road to War
• Statement by Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (August 15, 1995)
• Statement by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (August 14, 2015)

Published on  September 29th, 2023