Japan operates a civil-law legal system with six legal codes, primarily based on legal codes and statutes with precedent also playing an important role. Major modernization followed the Meiji Restoration of 1868, when Japan adopted European civil-law systems and, to a lesser extent, English and American common law; the Civil Code specifically drew on the draft German BGB as its model. Earlier still, Japanese law had been heavily influenced by Chinese law through the Ritsuryo system, and after the Second World War American law became the strongest influence in constitutional and criminal-procedure reform.
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Origin Year1868 marks the Meiji Restoration, the defensible origin of the modern Japanese legal system as a self-conscious modernization project; pre-modern Japanese law under the Chinese-influenced Ritsuryo system reaches back over a millennium earlier. Example Jurisdictions Primary Source of LawComprehensive enacted civil-law codes modeled substantially on German law, with French, indigenous and postwar American elements, supplemented by judicial precedent 1 Classification
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The Civil Code of Japan is the defining private-law code of the Japanese legal system.
Source Law of Japan (Wikipedia)
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Entity-backed identity for the legal family value this legal-system already carries as an enum fact, resolved to a legal-system entity by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.
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Family classification carried over from this entity's own recorded SubLabel (Civil Law Family), assigned under the section-legal-systems structure wave (ruling 761) using the CIA World Factbook / JuriGlobe comparative-law family classification (system.Atlas.DataBrief, law). This edge materializes that existing classification as a connective fact; it is not a new independent research finding.
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Source Asuka Kiyomihara Code (Wikipedia)
Source Equal Employment Opportunity Law (Japan), Wikipedia
Source Fumiko Saiga (Wikipedia)
Source Wikipedia: Goseibai Shikimoku
Source Hisashi Owada (Wikipedia)
Source Hozumi Nobushige (Wikipedia)
Source Inoue Kowashi (Wikipedia)
Source Wikidata: Itsurō Terada
Source Wikidata: Kotaro Tanaka
Source Kuniko Ozaki (Wikipedia)
Source Wikidata: Mineichirō Adachi
Source Ōmi Code (Wikipedia)
Source Shigeru Oda (Wikipedia)
Source Wikidata: Shūji Masutani
Source Taiho Code (Wikipedia)
Source Tetsuzo Kojima (Wikipedia)
Source Tokyo District Court (Wikipedia)
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Source Ume Kenjirō (Wikipedia)
Source Wikidata: Yōrō Code
Source Yorozu Oda (Wikipedia)
Source Wikidata: Yoshiko Mibuchi
Source Yuji Iwasawa (Wikipedia)
Source Yukihiko Imasaki (Wikipedia)
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a civil law legal system with six legal codes, which were greatly influenced by Germany, to a lesser extent by France.
- Japan has a civil law legal system with six legal codes
- Associated With: Civil Code of Japan (1896/1898)
List of national legal systems (Wikipedia)
In Group: German Civil Law Tradition, opening list, German civil law bullet: East Asian countries including JapanView the Source Wikipedia: Goseibai Shikimoku
Includes: Goseibai Shikimoku, Lead sectionQuote, Includes: Goseibai Shikimoku, Lead section
The Goseibai Shikimoku (御成敗式目) or the Formulary of Adjudications was the legal code of the Kamakura shogunate in Japan, promulgated by third shikken Hōjō Yasutoki on 27 August 1232.
Taiho Code (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Taiho Code, Lead sectionQuote, Includes: Taiho Code, Lead section
The Taihō Code or Code of Taihō (大宝律令, Taihō-ritsuryō) was an administrative reorganisation enacted in 703 in Japan, at the end of the Asuka period.
Ōmi Code (Wikipedia)
Includes: Omi Code, Lead sectionQuote, Includes: Omi Code, Lead section
The Ōmi Code (近江令, ōmiryō) are a collection of governing rules compiled in 668AD, and the first collection of Ritsuryō laws in classical Japan.
Hozumi Nobushige (Wikipedia)
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was a Japanese statesman and jurist of the Meiji perio
Yuji Iwasawa (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Yuji Iwasawa, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Yuji Iwasawa, Wikipedia lead sentence
is a Japanese jurist and professor
Yukihiko Imasaki (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Yukihiko Imasaki, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Yukihiko Imasaki, Wikipedia lead sentence
is a Japanese jurist
Wikidata: Itsurō Terada
Includes: Itsuro Terada, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Itsuro Terada, Wikipedia lead sentence
is a Japanese lawyer who served as Chief Justice of t
Tomoko Akane (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Tomoko Akane, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Tomoko Akane, Wikipedia lead sentence
is a Japanese jurist and current judge at the Interna
Shigeru Oda (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Shigeru Oda, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Shigeru Oda, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a Japanese jurist who was a judge on the Internati
Hisashi Owada (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Hisashi Owada, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Hisashi Owada, Wikipedia lead sentence
is a Japanese jurist
Kuniko Ozaki (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Kuniko Ozaki, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Kuniko Ozaki, Wikipedia lead sentence
is a Japanese lawyer who served as judge of the Inter
Inoue Kowashi (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Inoue Kowashi, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Inoue Kowashi, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a Japanese statesman of the Meiji period
Wikidata: Mineichirō Adachi
Includes: Mineichiro Adachi, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Mineichiro Adachi, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a Japanese legal expert and President of the Perma
Tetsuzo Kojima (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Tetsuzo Kojima, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Tetsuzo Kojima, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a Japanese jurist who served as the minister of ju
Fumiko Saiga (Wikipedia)
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was a Japanese diplomat and was the first Japanese per
Yorozu Oda (Wikipedia)
Includes: Yorozu Oda, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Yorozu Oda, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a Japanese lawyer
Tokyo District Court (Wikipedia)
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court located at 1-1-4 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.
Equal Employment Opportunity Law (Japan), Wikipedia
Includes: Equal Employment Opportunity Law (Japan), Wikipedia lead paragraphQuote, Includes: Equal Employment Opportunity Law (Japan), Wikipedia lead paragraph
for and Treatment of Men and Women in Employment (Japanese: 雇用の分野における男女の均等な機会及び待遇の確保等に関する法律), commonly known
Asuka Kiyomihara Code (Wikipedia)
Includes: Asuka Kiyomihara Code, Wikipedia lead paragraphQuote, Includes: Asuka Kiyomihara Code, Wikipedia lead paragraph
if not the first collection of Ritsuryō laws in classical Japan. This also marks the initial appearance of the ce
Wikidata: Yōrō Code
Includes: Yōrō Code, Wikipedia lead paragraphQuote, Includes: Yōrō Code, Wikipedia lead paragraph
rules compiled in the early Nara period in Classical Japan. It was compiled in 718, the second year of the Y
Wikidata: Kotaro Tanaka
Includes: Kotaro Tanaka, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Kotaro Tanaka, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a Japanese jurist
Wikidata: Shūji Masutani
Includes: Shuji Masutani, Wikipedia lead sentenceQuote, Includes: Shuji Masutani, Wikipedia lead sentence
was a Japanese jurist and politician who was a member
Wikidata: Yoshiko Mibuchi
Includes: Yoshiko Mibuchi, Wikipedia category: Japanese women lawyersView the Source Ume Kenjirō (Wikipedia)
WikipediaIncludes: Ume Kenjiro, IntroductionQuote, Includes: Ume Kenjiro, Introduction
Ume Kenjirō (梅 謙次郎; July 24, 1860, August 26, 1910) was a legal scholar in Meiji period Japan, and a founder of Hosei University.
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