A Positive Study on the Legal System in Japanese Empire and Colonies

本项目旨在为研究者提供日本帝国时期殖民法律的基础文献，描绘日本法律对东亚现代法律体系的影响，并利用日本帝国及其殖民地的比较框架，以“冈松圣太郎文约文献”等档案为基础，研究各国社会历史背景的差异和各制度之间的相互比较。向早稻田大学图书馆捐赠的“千草达夫文条文献”（1282项）和“宫内岸文条文献”（436项）的网络目录向公众开放。建立了台湾司法学院“殖民地时期台中地方法院司法记录”暂定档案目录（40,033件，326卷）。在此过程中，举办了6次“帝国与殖民法律制度”学习班和1次“帝国与殖民法律制度”国际研讨会。

This project is an attempt to provide researchers with fundamental documents on colonial laws in Japanese Imperial Period to depict influence of Japanese Law on modern legal system in East Asia and to study differences of socio-historical backgrounds among countries and inter-comparison of each system, using comparative framework between Imperial Japan and her colonies based on archives of "Okamatsu Santaro Monjo Documents" and so on.Web catalogues of "Chigusa Tatsuo Monjo Documents" (1282 items) and "Miyauchi Kishi Monjo Documents" (436 items) donated to Waseda University Library are open to public. A tentative archival catalogue of "Judicial Records of Taichung District Court in Colonial Times" (40,033 cases of 326 volumes) in Academy for the Judiciary in Taiwan has been created. In this process, 6 study sessions on "The Empire and the Colonial Legal System" and 1 International Symposium on the same topic were held.