Introduction of western Legal System into the East

本课题的主要目的是分析西方法律的制度传入东方，特别是韩国、泰国和日本的情况。在日本，对引进西方法律的制度这一课题，主要是从日本与西方国家的案例比较的角度进行探讨的。有学者指出，日本的法律的制度非常独特，是日本所特有的。但是，我们认为，日本的这些独特制度似乎与其他亚洲国家有共同的特点。因此，我们试图通过比较韩国和泰国的案例与日本的案例来重新审视这一主题。我们选择这两个国家的原因是韩国和日本一样受到佛教和儒家思想的影响，而泰国只受到佛教的影响，我们于1991年7月、9月和11月三次访问韩国进行上述主题的研究。我们采访了法学教授、法官、从业人员和一家法律的研究所的工作人员。在访谈之后，我们着重探讨了其中的三个问题：（1）法律的意识;（2）法律的纠纷解决机制;（3）家庭制度与法律。1991年11月，我们与20名韩国专家举行了学术会议，讨论这三个问题。会议上的论文将在日本和韩国出版。此外，我们还于1992年1月访问了泰国。在泰国，我们采访了法律教授、法官、从业者等，就像在韩国一样。但我们认为，有必要就这三个主题提供更多信息，以分析和比较韩国的情况。我们打算在不久的将来再次对这些问题，特别是法律的意识进行研究。

The main purpose of this project is to analyze the introduction of Western legal system into the East, especially South Korea, Thailand and Japan. In Japan, this topic, the introduction of Western legal system, has been discussed from the viewpoint of comparing Japanese case with Western countries' ones. Some scholars have pointed out that Japanese legal system is very unique which which are peculiar to Japan. But these peculiar systems to Japan seem, in our opinion, to have common characteristics to other Asian countries. Therefore, we try to re-examine this topic by comparing the South Korean and the Thai cases to the Japanese one in this project. The reasons why we choose these two countries are that South Korea have been influenced both by the buddhist and the confucian like Japan, and that Thailand has been influenced only by the buddhist.We visited South Korea to research the above topic three times, in July, September and November 1991. We had interviews with professors of law, Judges, practitioners and staffs of a legal research institute. After these interviews, we focus on three issues among the above topic, (1) Legal Consciousness, (2) the Settlement System of Legal Disputes and(3) Family System and Law. We took place the academic meeting with twenty Korean specialist to discuss the three issues in November 1991. The given papers at the meeting are scheduled to publish both in Japan and in South Korea.In addition, we visited Thailand in January 1992. In Thailand, we took interviews with professors of law, judges, practitioners and so on, like in South Korea. But we feel that more information on these three topics is necessary to analyze and to compare to South Korea's case. We intend to conduct a research on these issues, especially the legal consciousness in near future again.