Law and Modernization of the East Asia Society

本次卡肯资助的研究旨在通过与日本的比较，阐明全球市场对东亚社会，特别是中国法律发展的影响。2003年，我们制定了总体研究计划，定期召开研究会议，邀请国内外学者参加。我们还访问了中国进行初步研究。2004年，沿着定期的研究会议，我们去了泰国和越南，以获得更广泛的法律发展视角。我们还撰写并发表了几篇理论论文，以发展分析框架，进一步研究和整合研究结果。今年晚些时候，我们出版了一本关于我们进展情况的报告书。此外，在这一年里，我们对企业的法律的部门进行了广泛的采访，以了解全球化如何影响他们在中国、泰国和日本的合同流程。2005年，我们更加重视与日本法律发展的比较，并在全国范围内开展了一项关于“变化中的法律的意识”的调查。对它进行了分析，然后发表在京都大学法律评论上。2006年，我们对问卷进行了一些修改，以适应中国的情况，然后进行了调查。我们还邀请了中国学者举办研讨会。在年底，我们发布了最终的研究报告。但是，由于我们今年所做的法律的意识调查没有得到彻底的分析，我们将继续分析并撰写一篇完整的论文，并希望出版一本书，其中包含关于这个主题的其他研究论文。

The research funded by this Kaken was aimed to explicate the impact of global market upon the development of law in East Asian societies, especially in China, with a comparison with Japan. In 2003, we made an overall research plan, and held research meetings regularly inviting scholars both domestic and abroad. We also visited China to do preliminary research. In 2004, along with regular research meetings, we made a trip to Thai and Vietnam to get a broader perspective of developments of law. We also wrote and published several theoretical papers to develop the analytical framework to further the research and integrate the findings. Later in the year, we published a book form report on our progress. Also, in this year, we made extensive interviews with corporate legal departments to find out how the globalization affected their contractual processes in China, Thai, and Japan. In 2005, the emphasis was placed more on the comparison with the developments of law in Japan, and we conducted a nation-wide survey on "changing legal consciousness". It was analyzed and then published in Kyoto University law review. In 2006, we revised questionnaires somewhat to adapt to China, and then conducted the survey. We also invited Chinese scholars to hold workshops. At the end of year, we published a final research report. But, as the legal consciousness survey we did in this year was not thoroughly analyzed, we will continue the analysis and write a full length paper, and hopefully publish a book containing other research papers on this topic.