The japanese judicial system
The japanese judicial system

Summary/Abstract: The Japanese legal and judicial system is exemplary. In a single century, Japan went from a feudal legal structure through a legal system and a practice based on the civil law of Western Europe to a legal system after World War II. It mied continental and Anglo-American and European legislation. Perhaps the most remarkable dimension of this evolution is the changing of the role of the governmental role of the judiciary, from a medieval administrative apparatus to a ledaing institution that derives directly from the Constitution of Japan. The Japanese legal system as exists today is a combination of civil and common law caused by the voluntary approval of civil law of continental Europe and the imposition of common law on Japan after the Second World War.

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